President-Elect Obama Announces Heads of Immigration Policy Working Group

03 Dec 2008

Last week, President-elect Barack Obama announced that he plans to create a number of policy working groups to help create proposals for multiple pending topics. One of those groups, the ‘immigration group,’ will be led by Alexander Aleinikoff and Mariano-Florentino Cuellar.

Aleinikoff, the dean of the Georgetown University Law Center and executive vice-presdient of Georgetown University, has years of experience in the field of immigration. During the Clinton administration, he served as general counsel and executive associate commissioner for programs at the INS (now USCIS). He was also a senior associate at the Migration Policy Institute.

Cuellar, currently a professor at Stanford Law School, previously held the position of senior advisor to the Under Secretary for Enforcement during the Clinton Administration. In that posting, he worked on topics related to domestic and international finance crime, border coordination issues and heeding corruption.