Lucas Guttentag reports: "In anticipation of next week, I wanted to share that the Immigration Policy Tracking Project (IPTP) website is updated for Trump 2.0. Beginning Monday, all new federal immigration...
Nicole Narea, Vox, Jan. 16, 2025 "One of the first bills that could be sent to President Donald Trump after he is inaugurated Monday would vastly expand immigration detention and make it easier...
ACLU, Jan. 15, 2025 "Newly released documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union confirm that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is actively considering proposals to expand its...
Cyrus D. Mehta, Kaitlyn Box, Jan. 14, 2025 "On January 8, 2025, USCIS issued updated guidance in its Policy Manual clarifying how entrepreneurs may qualify for O visas. The guidance states that...
MPI, Jan. 14, 2025 "Muzaffar Chishti, a senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute, was honored today by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) with an Outstanding Americans by Choice...
Soutik Biswas and Zoya Mateen, BBC News, Jan. 9, 2025
"The H-1B visa program, which brings skilled foreign workers to the US, faces criticism for undercutting American workers but is praised for attracting global talent. The president-elect, once a critic, now supports the 34-year-old program, while tech billionaire Elon Musk defends it as key to securing top engineering talent. ... "The first Trump administration tightened H-1B visas by increasing denial rates and slowing processing times, making it harder for people to get visas in time. It is unclear whether that will happen again in the second Trump administration," Stephen Yale-Loehr, an immigration scholar at Cornell Law School, told the BBC. "Some people like Elon Musk want to preserve the H-1B visas, while other officials in the new administration want to restrict all immigration, including H-1Bs. It is too early to tell which side will prevail." "