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This Week’s Immigration Proposals: Old News, Old Ideas
If you follow immigration, but are returning from a month-long, news-free vacation, there’s only one conclusion you would draw from the legislation Republicans offered up this week in Congress: Mitt Romney must have won the presidential election. After all, the ACHIEVE Act, introduced yesterday by retiring Senators Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX), […]
Read MoreReform Immigration For Entrepreneurs
Market Watch November 28, 2012 If Congress is serious about saving this country’s innovative edge and creating more jobs, it will have to do better on immigration reform than the most recent effort from Republican leaders in the House. At first glance, the STEM Jobs Act put forth by GOP leaders last week might seem […]
Read MoreObama Administration Wants To Keep Foreign-Born Entrepreneurs In US
CBS DC November 28, 2012 The Obama administration’s top immigration official is visiting the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to unveil an online resource intended to help entrepreneurs navigate their immigration options. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service Director Alejandro Mayorkas will unveil so-called “Entrepreneur Pathways” on Wednesday. It is a key product of “Entrepreneurs in Residence” […]
Read MoreSTEM Jobs Act Would Help Foreign-Born Innovators Keep Their Talents In U.S.
Star Telegram November 28, 2012 This week, the U.S. House is expected to vote on a bill to create more visas for foreign-born students in science, technology, engineering and math. For me, and many others, it means the chance to fulfill our American dreams. For Americans, it means the chance to reverse a slow but […]
Read MoreStartups Will Gain From GOP’s Immigration Pain
CNN Money November 28, 2012 America’s venture capitalists have spent the past several years begging Congress to make it easier for foreign-born entrepreneurs to enter the United States. The proposal is called Startup Visa, and finally may be on the verge of becoming law. Not on its merits (which are many), but because of electoral […]
Read MoreU.S. Immigration Official Comes To MIT, Vows To ‘Adapt To Business Landscape’
Boston Business Journal November 28, 2012 The director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency, Alejandro Mayorkas, acknowledged his agency needs to work much harder to facilitate legal avenues for foreign-born entrepreneurs to stay in the U.S. Speaking at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mayorkas, a one-time Cuban political refugee, said, “We as an […]
Read MoreUS Pushes To Keep Entrepreneur Jobs In The Country
Bloomberg Business week November 28, 2012 The Obama administration’s top immigration official says his agency is working to attract and keep more foreign-born high-tech entrepreneurs who are seeking to start companies in the U.S., a move he hopes will help the nation retain its edge in an increasingly competitive global economy. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration […]
Read MoreBipartisanship Needed On Skilled Immigration Reform
Forbes November 27, 2012 While the prospects for compromise on taxes and spending seem to change from one day to the next, there have been encouraging signs since the election for those seeking meaningful immigration reform. Such reform is essential for a variety of reasons. As post-election analysts scrutinized the election demographics, one statistic has […]
Read MoreSTEM Bill Still Plagued by Politics
In 2010, the lame duck session of Congress was dominated by debate over the DREAM Act, which passed the House of Representatives before succumbing to a conservative-led filibuster in the Senate. Congress will again tackle a significant immigration measure during the current lame duck session, with the House expected to vote on Friday on a […]
Read MoreKris Kobach Continues Digging Immigration Hole
Despite a general consensus that adopting “self-deportation” as immigration policy helped sink Mitt Romney’s White House aspirations, the architect of this philosophy, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, isn’t ready to give in. Kobach doesn’t seem to care that most in his party have awakened to the fact that they are in a “death spiral” […]
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