Military Personnel Exempt From Inspection by CBP

U.S. immigration law provides for the examination of all persons seeking admission to the U.S. by an immigration officer (CBP), at a port of entry. Once determined not to be a U.S. citizen, the applicant will be inspected as an “Alien”. There are, however, certain classes of aliens who are specifically exempt inspection and may not be excluded from the United States. Members of U.S. Armed Forces Non-citizen servicemen and women of the U.S. military forces entering the United States Read More

Exploring Frankenstein and Prometheus: From Greek Myths to Ridley Scott

The original, complete title of Mary Shelley’s masterpiece is Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. We all know what Frankenstein is, although many of our conceptions are wrong (seeing the creature as Frankenstein, for example, or thinking that the community rises up and destroys the creature as a way to defend itself, popular misconceptions derived from film versions, particularly the 1931 Boris Karloff version). Yet we don’t know much at all about Prometheus, the other half of the title. The title Read More