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You Tell Us: Should the United States Welcome Highly Educated Immigrants?
The Washington Post June 8, 2012 Senate and House lawmakers recently introduced the Startup Act 2.0, a proposal that would grant visas to foreign students who obtain graduate degrees in science, technology, engineering and math. The measure has garnered bicameral and bipartisan support, an increasingly rare feat as the election draws closer. Click here to […]
Read MoreLawmakers Attempt to Gut Census by Defunding American Community Survey
How can you make good policy in the absence of good information? That seems to be a question that some Republicans in the House and Senate have not asked themselves. In recent months, these lawmakers have proposed that funding for the Census Bureau’s annual American Community Survey (ACS) be cut entirely from the federal budget, […]
Read MoreLegal Action Center Files Suit Against DHS for Failure to Disclose Records on “Voluntary” Returns
Washington D.C. – Yesterday, the Legal Action Center (LAC) at the American Immigration Council, in collaboration with Hughes Socol Piers Resnick & Dym, filed suit against Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for unlawfully withholding records concerning voluntary returns of noncitizens from the United States to their countries of […]
Read MoreMaking the Immigration System Work for Our Economy
The White House June 7, 2012 Recently, I had an opportunity to travel to Houston and speak to the business leaders there who are leading the effort to move beyond the heated immigration rhetoric, and to get to a place where we can talk about common sense solutions that are in the country’s best interest. […]
Read MoreTech-Savvy Immig Bill
New York Post June 7, 2012 Mayor Bloomberg got a bipartisan boost from Congress yesterday when lawmakers introduced a bill aimed at keeping foreign-born high-tech students and entrepreneurs in the country. Rep. Michael Grimm (R-SI) is sponsoring the measure that would create a new set of conditional visas for 75,000 immigrant entrepreneurs and 50,000 foreign […]
Read MoreStartup Act 2.0: Could It Be An Immigration Breakthrough?
The Christian Science Monitor June 7, 2012 Forget the border fence or allusions to the American dream – if you want reforms of the nation’s immigration policy, talk about jobs. Talk, in other words, about the Startup 2.0 Act. If a gridlocked Congress is to make headway on modernizing US immigration policy, it may be […]
Read MoreUpdated Figures Highlight Shortfalls of Prosecutorial Discretion Program
As reported in today’s New York Times, the Department of Homeland Security has reviewed nearly 300,000 pending deportation cases over the past seven months in search of low-priority immigrants deserving prosecutorial discretion. While immigrant advocates cheered the policy when it was announced, figures released yesterday suggest that the program is not only falling short of […]
Read MoreExplaining the Startup Act 2.0
Southern California Public Radio June 5, 2012 What is the cleverly-named legislation called Startup Act 2.0? The bill being announced tomorrow by members of Congress is the House version of a Senate bill introduced last month, which simply put makes it easier for foreigners who obtain advanced degrees to stay in the United States. The […]
Read MoreOne Tech Flotation’s Going Well!
Daily Mail June 6, 2012 It’s a tentative anchors away for the world’s first floating start-up as more than 250 companies have expressed interest in joining Blueseed, a massive ship anchored in international waters off the coast of California’s Silicon Valley. … But supporters of foreign entrepreneurship say immigrants are responsible for some of the […]
Read MoreStartup Act 2.0: House Lawmakers Introduce Senators’ Immigration Reform Bill
The Washington Post June 6, 2012 One week after Senators from both sides of the aisle unveiled a new immigration reform and job creation measure, Republicans and Democrats have again linked up to introduce the same bill in the House. Startup Act 2.0 would allow immigrants who obtain graduate degrees in science, technology, engineering and […]
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