By Thomas B. Edsall Last week, as soon as the National Academy of Sciences issued “The Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Immigration,” its 509-page report, interest groups on the left and right immediately claimed vindication. “National Academy of Sciences Study Confirms Immigrants Benefit America,” America’s Voice, a liberal advocacy group, […]
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By RON NIXON WASHINGTON — A contentious visa program that allows wealthy foreigners to obtain United States citizenship by investing in economic development projects will expire at the end of this month unless Congress acts to extend it. The program, called EB-5, allows foreign investors to gain citizenship by investing […]
Though federal laws and rules don’t mention Hawaii’s fishing fleet by name, technicalities buried in immigration law, maritime regulations and agency rule books have combined to give it a rare distinction: In the Aloha State hundreds of foreign fishermen are stuck on their boats for years. The Magnuson-Stevens and Jones […]
By Lomi Kriel September 5, 2016 Donald Trump’s hard-line stance on immigrants in the U.S. illegally is not surprising given that he made it the central part of his campaign. What has stunned experts in the fallout after his first detailed policy speech in Arizona last week is his nearly […]