Background The H-1B visa program is for foreigners seeking to work in the US in certain ”specialty occupations,” like fashion modeling, or in an occupation that requires a high degree of knowledge. Tech workers in Silicon Valley are common H-1B visa holders, and the cap for fiscal year 2018 is 85,000 workers. The New York […]
Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States, Executive Order 13768, purports to protect Americans by denying funding to so-called sanctuary jurisdictions that “attempt to shield aliens from removal from the United States.” This attempt, the Executive Order declares, has caused “immeasurable harm to the American people and to the very fabric of […]
Background When President Trump issued his first Executive Order (Order I) addressing immigration, on January 26, 2017, we explained that it banned the entry of immigrant and nonimmigrant citizens of seven countries, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen, into the United States for 90 days. As we noted, Order I also suspended all […]
