By Hope Yen and Julie Pace WASHINGTON — The Homeland Security Department has drafted sweeping new guidelines aimed at aggressively detaining and deporting immigrants living in the U.S. illegally, according to a pair of memoranda signed by DHS Secretary John Kelly. The memos dated Friday seek to implement President Donald […]
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The government just put out the blueprint for President Trump’s immigration crackdown
21 Feb
by Foster, on News
By Dara Lind The Department of Homeland Security is officially putting the sweeping executive orders that President Donald Trump signed his first week in office into practice — giving the federal government nearly free rein to arrest, detain, and deport unauthorized immigrants wherever it finds them. On Monday, Homeland Security […]
Forget Silicon Valley: Here’s the place worried that Trump will chop technology visas
21 Feb
by Foster, on News
By Seema Mody President Donald Trump’s “America First” agenda and his focus on curbing immigration have stoked fears that visas widely given to technology workers may be on the chopping block. Since the early 1990s, H-1B visas have helped companies in the U.S. access qualified — and typically lower-paid — […]
By Julie McCarthy With the Trump administration vowing to tighten rules for skilled workers entering the United States, India’s software services companies are worried. Indian IT giants outsource tens of thousands of tech specialists to the United States each year, and limiting the visa program that brings them in could […]