While she is elated with President Obama’s pick of Sonia Sotomayor as a Supreme Court nominee, her expectations remain tempered with cautious optimism.<\/p>\n
Houston-area immigration lawyer Annie Banerjee is pleased, bordering on elated, in respect to President Barack Obama’s choice of Judge Sonia Sotomayor as his much touted U.S. Supreme Court nominee. “She’s Hispanic and she’s a woman, and so the Supreme Court finally gets to have those perspectives. That’s praiseworthy,” asserts Banerjee. But is the link between Sotomayor’s selection as a Presidential nominee and significant immigration reform really that clear? Of the latter, Ms. Banerjee is not so sure.<\/p>\n
“It does place immigration reform on the President’s plate,” she says, “but it may have been as much a shrewd move calculated to stymie right-wing Republicans enamored with anti-immigration rhetoric that won’t work in the long-term to as an immigration reform catalyst. In fact, I’m already seeing a backlash against Sotomayor that is (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" While she is elated with President Obama’s pick of Sonia Sotomayor as a Supreme Court nominee, her expectations remain tempered with cautious optimism. Houston-area immigration lawyer Annie Banerjee is pleased, bordering on elated, in respect to President Barack Obama’s choice…<\/span><\/p>\n