An accomplished New York law professional, E. Abel Arcia has served as senior partner and managing attorney of Jackson Height’s Arcia & Associates since 1995. One of E. Abel Arcia’s main areas of focus as a lawyer is representing immigrants to the US who would otherwise have trouble finding representation.
According to an independent report by the Pew Research Center, immigrants comprise approximately 17 percent of the American workforce. And a 2017 Gallup poll determined that 71 percent of US citizens consider immigration a “good thing.”
However, a higher percentage of the US population disapproves of the 5 percent of immigrants who are in the country without official documentation. For this reason and many others, immigration has been a key political subject in the US for decades.
Despite its prominent role in the sphere of public debate, the federal government has long struggled to introduce and enact comprehensive immigration reform. In 2013, Congress came close to significant reform when the Democrat-led Senate passed a major bill which would have provided undocumented immigrants with a path to citizenship while simultaneously strengthening security at the US/Mexican border. However, a Republican-led House of Representatives ultimately voted the bill.
