President Trump delayed the rescission of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program until March 5, 2018, to allow for Congress to act on a solution. According to a report from the Center for American Progress, an estimated 91% of the close to 800,000 DACA recipients are employed in […]
The annual H-1B quota is perennially oversubscribed. In fact, in the first week that new H-1B petitions are allowed each year, the number of H-1B petitions received is more than twice the number that could be approved under the quota for the entire year. This less than 50 percent chance […]
The Senate Fails to Act on DACA, and the Immigration Debate Moves to the Right
20 Feb
by Foster LLP, on News
By Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker Democrats wanted this debate,” Mitch McConnell, the Senate Majority Leader, said Thursday, after the Senate spent the better part of a week trying, and failing, to reach a deal on immigration reform. Last month, to corral enough votes to keep the government running, he […]
By Quoctrung Bui and Caitlin Dickerson, The New York Times Every country regulates immigration in its own imperfect way. Some countries have populations that are 80 percent foreign-born but offer no pathway to permanency. Other countries put up huge barriers to citizenship except for people whose parents were born there. […]