By Lauren Etter, Leslie Patton and Shannon Pettypiece For corporate America, there’s a lot to like about President-elect Donald Trump’s platform: fewer regulations, lower taxes and a singular devotion to deal-making. Yet there’s one signature campaign pledge — to round up and deport millions of undocumented immigrants — that has […]
DHS Regulation Affords New Benefits, Clarifies Limitations on H-1B Extensions and Immigrant Portability
23 Nov
by Foster, on Immigration Updates
More than fifteen years after Congress passed the American Competitiveness in the Twenty-first Century Act of 2000 (AC-21), and almost two decades after passage of the American Competitiveness and Workforce Improvement Act of 1998 (ACWIA), the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has finally published a final rule interpreting, clarifying […]
By JULIA PRESTON and JENNIFER MEDINA Brought to the United States from Venezuela as a toddler, Carlos Roa was among the first young undocumented immigrants to be protected from deportation under a program President Obama set up in 2012 by executive action. Since then Mr. Roa, now 29, has put […]
By David Z. Morris Entrepreneurs say they need more, not fewer, foreign workers. The U.S. tech sector was broadly opposed to the candidacy of Donald Trump, motivated by concerns from data privacy to telecom regulation. But the biggest concern may have been the potential impact of Trump’s immigration stance on […]