All Posts

I graduated from the University of Iowa with a Bachelor's degree in English in 1990, in only four years. But it was not without ups and downs. For example, as a freshman I took a semester of Latin which was ambitious, but not fruitful, so I switched to Spanish. And I had to retake a basic chemistry class. I was not even close to being an honors student, but I did spend just barely enough time in the library to somehow get into law school. Recently, I contacted the Univer

When I wrote my book, I was careful to be reasonable and even-handed in my view of ICE and ICE agents. This is because I didn't want a reader to think I was vilifying all ICE agents, just because of one or two bad apples. I still feel this way. I know that not all ICE agents would have shot Alex Pretti or Renee Good, or Lorenzo Salgado Araujo or Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero. But at some point, you have to say to yourself, WTF?! Because it didn't stop there. After Joan,

Fixing Immigration in America has been launched into the world. After almost a year of working on this book, it is now out there. Thank you to everyone who has read it so far! The paperback is available on Amazon and some bookstores. I was also notified that my alma mater, the University of Iowa, ordered a copy for the library. You can now listen to it as an audiobook via Audible and Spotify. I narrated it myself. I had briefly considered hiring a narrator, but the boo

I am excited to announce that I have written a book called Fixing Immigration in America, coming out on Amazon on September 15, 2026. I want to give credit where credit is due. My wife Kim suggested to me that I write this book. She envisioned it as sort of like a field-guide to immigration law for non-lawyers, so people could understand the law better, something that could be a how-to manual on changing the immigration law. She told me, “Americans love to fix things. Yo