Nathan MaderFeb 25, 2025
Federation of Employers and Workers of America et al. versus Mayorkas et al. challenges a final rule issued by the Biden administration in December 2024 that went into effect on Jan. 17, 2025.
Marisa PalmieriNov 3, 2023
I can vividly recall sitting next to Bob Dolibois, retired executive vice president of the American Nursery & Landscape Association (now AmericanHort), on a bus…
LM StaffJun 6, 2018
More than 100 workers were arrested June 5 when about 200 federal officers raided two Corso’s Flower & Garden Center locations in Sandusky and Castalia,…
Gregg RobertsonNov 3, 2023
We are a few weeks into the Trump administration, and we're getting a glimpse of how this presidency might impact (or not) the landscape…
Despite the predictions of pollsters and pundits to the contrary, Donald Trump engineered a stunning upset of Hillary Clinton in this week’s presidential election. Not…
In my July Landscape Management blog post, I looked at where the two then-presumptive presidential candidates stood on immigration issues, specifically comprehensive immigration reform and…
This year was not a productive year for Congress dealing with issues important to landscape contractors. For that matter, 2015 was not a productive year…
LM StaffFeb 27, 2023
The National Association of Landscape Professionals (NALP) held its annual Legislative Day on the Hill in Washington, D.C., on July 21. More than 100 industry…
LM StaffNov 3, 2023
Ron Mondello, a foreign national criminal defense lawyer in New Jersey, discusses how landscape business owners and Hispanic workers can protect themselves in 2015. He…
On Nov. 20, President Barack Obama announced a series of executive actions that would defer deportation for an estimated 4.5 million undocumented immigrants currently residing…
For some months now, the Obama administration has been threatening to use presidential executive powers to fix the broken immigration system in the face of…
In my June blog, I expressed some hope a window had opened a crack to move immigration reform forward in Congress: House Speaker John Boehner…
Just when possibility for Congressional action this year on immigration reform seemed doomed, a small breeze came in through the window. Players on the Republican…
Marisa PalmieriFeb 27, 2023
Immigration reform is a perennial issue for the landscape industry. The promise of Congress passing a comprehensive bill to address the nation's broken immigration system…
Sarah PfleddererNov 9, 2023
“In the pre-dawn glow of the security lights on Monterrey’s Ocampo Street, the hopefuls arrive, lugging duffel bags and pulling small suitcases behind them. Many…
Marisa PalmieriNov 9, 2023
With some signs in Congress that immigration reform may happen this year, Landscape Management and the Professional Landcare Network (PLANET) partnered on an immigration sentiments…
The “small window that's closing fast” for immigration reform to happen before the end of the year slammed shut in November, at least for the…
A small window that’s closing fast is how Craig Regelbrugge, the American Nursery & Landscape Association’s (ANLA) vice president of government relations and research, describes…
Jody ShilanAug 9, 2013
Dominick Mondi, executive director of the New Jersey Nursery & Landscape Association, expressed some insights into immigration reform and the Green Industry's need for a…
You can't be with a group of landscape contractors long before the conversation turns to the topic of the difficulty finding and retaining good employees.…
More than 400 leading U.S. businesses and advocacy organizations--including the Professional Landcare Network (PLANET), Irrigation Association and the American Nursery & Landscape Association--signed a letter…
Last week the U.S. Senate passed S. 744, Congress' first serious attempt at comprehensive immigration reform since 2007. The bill, hammered out by a bipartisan…
Marisa PalmieriJun 18, 2015
A new survey from the Pew Research Center finds that seven-in-ten Americans (71 percent) say there should be a way for illegal immigrants to remain…
LM StaffAug 1, 2018
WASHINGTON—In remarks he gave March 25 during a naturalization ceremony at the White House, President Barack Obama said, "I expect a bill to be put…
