Jun 17
A year ago, President Obama announced the DACA program from the steps of the White House Rose Garden. The announcement marked a victory for thousands of undocumented immigrant youth whose courage and activism inspired the Administration to take action. Since that day, over half a million young immigrants have come forward under DACA to seek …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2013/06/17/happy-birthday-daca/
May 03
When analyzing higher-skilled guest worker visa programs, such as the H-1B and L-1 programs, critics often fail to acknowledge the very different and important purposes that these programs were designed to serve, and the complicated requirements already in place to protect against abuse or exploitation. There is no denying that we can and should improve …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2013/05/03/keeping-u-s-high-skilled-temporary-worker-visa-programs-workable/
Apr 08
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on Friday, April 5, just five days after the H-1B high-skill “visa race” began, that they had received more applications than could be approved under the cap of 65,000 for fiscal year 2014. Additionally, USCIS stated they had received more than 20,000 H-1B petitions on behalf of individuals …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2013/04/08/h-1b-visa-cap-reached-in-five-days/
Feb 15
The Obama Administration is on record for pursuing the toughest immigration enforcement policies in U.S. history, mostly evidenced by its record numbers of deportations. These numbers speak volumes: last year, nearly 400,000 people were deported from the United States. While these numbers are shockingly high and there has been much discussion about how these actions …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2013/02/15/shoddy-court-process-behind-the-record-number-of-deportations/
Jan 30
Lost amidst coverage of recent immigration reform proposals was a ruling issued last Friday in Kris Kobach’s legal crusade against the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The lawsuit, filed last summer in a federal court in Dallas, alleges the program violates an obscure provision of the immigration laws that supposedly prohibits immigrants who …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2013/01/30/federal-judge-leaves-anti-daca-lawsuit-hanging-by-a-thread/
Jan 23
For many young immigrants who are now lawfully present under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) initiative—which grants them the right to work and live in the United States for at least two years—the next question may be, when will they be able to travel outside of the United States? Depending on what guidance …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2013/01/23/will-uscis-develop-fair-humane-travel-policies-for-daca-recipients/
Jan 11
For more than a decade, the general thrust of U.S. immigration policy has been aimed at expanding the grounds of removal and the tools for facilitating deportations from the country. Not surprisingly, this has come at an enormous cost. Although the figure has been disputed by restrictionists, a report from the Migration Policy Institute recently …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2013/01/11/removals-remain-the-starkest-measure-of-immigration-enforcement/
Dec 14
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has released the latest numbers on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) initiative. The numbers provided by the agency reflect activity between August 15, 2012 – December 13, 2012. Entering its fifth month, the numbers are encouraging. Of the nearly 1.8 million who are potentially eligible, nearly …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/12/14/latest-daca-approval-numbers-released-by-uscis/
Dec 13
For the past several years, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ (USCIS) H-1B visa review and processing procedures have caused confusion and concern among U.S. businesses that turn to highly-skilled temporary foreign workers in specialty occupations to operate successfully. In newly-uncovered documents, it appears that instead of supporting small businesses that attempt to hire highly-skilled foreign …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/12/13/lawsuit-uncovers-uscis-double-standards-in-h1-b-program/
Nov 07
Even before the election was called for President Obama last night, pundits and pollsters were remarking on the fact that immigration—or more specifically, anti-immigrant policies—were a death knell for Mitt Romney. Today, the analysis of whether and how the Republican party recovers from its devastatingly poor showing among Latinos—the key demographic group of the 21st …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/11/07/elections-demand-a-new-way-forward-on-immigration/
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