Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, May 30, 2023 "Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday pledged to challenge a long-standing interpretation of the U.S. Constitution in an attempt to end birthright...
In the July 4, 2004 issue of Bender's Immigration Bulletin I published this essay . As we head into the long weekend...and an even longer 2024 election cycle in which immigration will loom large....
In this one-hour webinar, four experts explain what will happen next at the border. Essential viewing! Watch the recording here .
Senate Joint Economic Committee, Dec. 14, 2022 "As the United States continues its recovery from the pandemic recession, immigrant workers are essential to the continued growth of the labor force...
Muzaffar Chishti, Kathleen Bush-Joseph, MPI, May 25, 2023 "U.S. border enforcement finds itself in an uncertain new era now that the pandemic-era Title 42 border expulsions policy has been lifted...
Prof. Stephen W. Yale-Loehr, Dec. 10, 2021
"A doctor from India came to the U.S. in 2006, completed an internal medicine residency in New York, and is now working on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic in Virginia. He has risked his own life to save hundreds of lives over the past two years — yet he remains stuck on a temporary visa, waiting to receive a green card in the country he calls home. This temporary status has caused uncertainty for him and his family and prevents him from working wherever he’s needed. In the United States, only 7 percent of green cards can go to citizens of any single country each year. As a result, I have dozens of high-skilled immigrant clients who are in a similar situation, stuck in a decades-long green card backlog, simply because they’re from a populous country. This is as much a problem for U.S. employers as it is for foreign nationals. Companies cannot remain competitive in a global economy or meet consumer demand if they can’t hire and retain the workers they need. That’s especially true given the current labor shortages and pandemic delays for visa applications and renewals. This year, there are 1.6 million immigrants in the backlog for employment-based green cards. To fix these issues, Congress needs to pass a bill that would ease the path for high-skilled workers. ... The good news is that Congress has an opportunity to fix this problem: Give unused green cards to high-skilled workers that need them and secure our country’s economic future. The House of Representatives has passed a bill that would do just that. The Senate should do the same." - Stephen Yale-Loehr is professor of immigration law practice at Cornell Law School and of counsel at Miller Mayer LLP in Ithaca, N.Y. Follow him on Twitter @syaleloehr