Margaret (Peggy Sands) Orchowski has covered immigrationreform on Capitol Hill as a Congressional Journalist since 2005, as the Bill  Analysis  Editor for Congressional Quarterly, a Congressional Correspondent and for the Hispanic Outlookmagazine.  Since 2016 she also is the Senior Correspondent for The Georgetowner newspaper writing under the byline Peggy Sands.

With the timely publication of her latest book "The Law That Changed the Face of America: The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015), she is available for speaking engagements, as a go-to expert reporter and for writing articles that give sensible and thoughtful background about today's hot issues on immigration like DREAMERS, DACA and foreign students.