Talented artist and good friend, Pat Benincasa, recently invited me to join her in a session of her Filled to Capacity podcast. I hope you enjoy our discussion of All Things Immigration.

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…”

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Angelo A. Paparelli is a Partner in Vialto Law (US) PLLC, practicing all aspects of employment-based immigration from Los Angeles, California, including immigration compliance and defense of employers, and the immigration consequences of mergers, acquisitions and other forms of corporate restructuring. He is…

Angelo A. Paparelli is a Partner in Vialto Law (US) PLLC, practicing all aspects of employment-based immigration from Los Angeles, California, including immigration compliance and defense of employers, and the immigration consequences of mergers, acquisitions and other forms of corporate restructuring. He is a past member of the Board of Governors of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), a past member of the Board of Trustees of the American Immigration Counsel, on the editorial boards of the AILA Law Journal and Bender’s Immigration Bulletin, and the recipient of AILA’s Edith Lowenstein Award for Advancing the Practice of Immigration Law. He is ranked Band 1 in Chambers USA, Chambers Global, Legal 500 and the Who’s Who of Corporate Immigration Lawyers, the founder and a past president of the Alliance of Business Immigration Lawyers (www.abil.com), an elected Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, and a blogger since 2004 at www.nationofimmigrators.com. He can be reached at angelo.paparelli@vialto.com.