Immigration Law: Outspoken Changemaker in a Convoluted Maze

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In this powerful episode, Angelo Paparelli, takes us inside the US immigration system of changing laws, history, quotas, political parties, and bureaucratic turf wars. In his many years of practicing immigration law, he understands the delicate balance of working within multiple agencies, navigating laws and amendments while never losing sight of the human toll of each decision.

Angelo Paparelli is a partner at Seyfarth Shaw LLP, practicing in Southern California and New York. He is the recipient of the Edith Lowenstein Award conferred by the American Immigration Lawyers Association. He is an expert witness/consultant on immigration to law firms, businesses and individuals. His blog, “A Nation of Immigrators,” affects public policy and has a world-wide audience.

QUOTES

ANGELO:  “It's helping people who were fleeing persecution from their home country. And boy, putting together an affidavit that describes someone's life-threatening fears is far more meaningful than drafting a contract.”

ANGELO:  “... I think we've forgotten our history and we don't really make the connection... I mean, the founder of Intel was an immigrant, the founder of Apple computers was an immigrant. He was the son of a refugee... and I believe at least one of the two founders of Google was an immigrant. So you just name these companies and you see the tremendous wealth creation that there has been, but you don't see that. It doesn't register. And why it doesn't register is a kind of selective perception, cultural or historic amnesia.”

ANGELO:  “I believe that American exceptionalism, if that term is still to be used, derives from the constant replenishment of human capital, human ideas that come from elsewhere, where people who will do anything to sacrifice for their children's betterment and work and contribute in ways that they push it to the level of human capacity...”

LINKS

Angelo A. Paparelli, Vialto Partners

Nation of Immigrators Blog Gumption, Resilence, Courage: Immigration attorney Angelo Paparelli finds inspiration in clients, Wayne State University Law School, August 27, 2018 

https://law.wayne.edu/news/gumption-resilience-courage-33878

AILA Presents Angelo A. Paparelli with the 2010 Edith Lowenstein Memorial Award 

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