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....
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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...
ACLU of Florida, May 22, 2023 "A group of Chinese citizens who live, work, study, and raise families in Florida, as well as a real estate brokerage firm in Florida that primarily serves clients...
Liu v. Mayorkas, Amended Complaint, June 29, 2021
"The cap registration rules and regulations codified at 8 C.F.R, § 214.2(h)(8)(iii) (“cap registration rules”) are unlawful. First, DHS was rulemaking outside of its authority when it promulgated the cap registration rules because the rules prioritize H-1B lottery registrations and ignore the INA’s mandate to allocate H-1B visas by “alien.” See 8 U.S.C. § 1184(g)(1), (3), (7). Second, even assuming that the creation of the cap registration rules was a lawful exercise of DHS’s rule-making authority, USCIS has implemented the cap registration rules in a manner that is arbitrary and capricious because the registration process does not provide a method for “aliens who are subject to the numerical limitations” to have future petitions adjudicated in the “order in which petitions are filed.” See 8 U.S.C. § 1184(g)(3). The cap registration rules promulgated by DHS and implemented by USCIS have led to H-1B applicants being selected in a manner not contemplated by the INA. Therefore, because the cap registration rules violate the INA, they must be set aside."