Litigation

Thinking about immigration

By Angel L. Reyes, III

Posted on TexParte Blog (http://texaslawyer.typepad.com/):

Dallas lawyer Angel L. Reyes III says policy makers need to start thinking about how the immigration of Hispanics to the United States impacts socio-economics. So Reyes and two business professors at Texas Tech University wrote a book on that topic published in December 2008.

“It’s going to be one of the defining issues that our country faces in the next 50 years, as we demographically change,” says Reyes, managing partner of Heygood, Orr, Reyes, Pearson & Bartolomei. In "Hispanic Heresy: What is the Impact of America’s Largest Population of Immigrants?" Reyes says they tried to take a neutral tone. “I wanted to see if I had any chance in heck, being one lawyer out in the wilderness, trying to reframe the debate,” he says. He says facts and statistics speak much louder than television commentators who say “immigration is the possible worst thing.”  The book looks at issues such as illegal immigration and its effect on education, the tax system, social welfare and health-care systems. Reyes, who does intellectual property and business litigation, says Hispanics will become a greater percentage of the nation’s workforce, and over time social programs paid for by wages will be earned by a largely Hispanic workforce. Reyes’ co-authors are Bradley Ewing and James Wetherbe.
-- Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

Full post as published by Angel Reyes Blog on January 27, 2009 (boomark / email).