UK Refuses Visa for Banipal Visiting Writer Fellow Hammour Ziada
Organizers of the Banipal Visiting Writer Fellowship announced yesterday that acclaimed Sudanese novelist Hammour Ziada — who had been selected as the 2019 fellow — ……Read More
Immigration
Not All Foreign Work Forces Are Equally Harmful to American Workers
As I was reading about the Trump administration’s possible termination of work permits for a large number of H-4 workers (primarily spouses of H-1B temporary ……Read More
Oakland Mayor Invites Panic in Immigrant Communities
Mayor Libby Schaaf of Oakland, Calif., created a stir on February 24, 2018, when she tweeted out a statement saying that she “had learned from ……Read More
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Removes “Nation Of Immigrants” From Its Mission Statement
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the federal agency in charge of granting citizenship to those in the process of becoming Americans, is removing a ……Read More
The Art of the Immigration DACA Choke
The White House immigration outline was released today and it’s not good. It could change tomorrow, for all we know, but as it stands now, ……Read More
Just How Large of an America Amnesty Are We Talking About?
The 1986 amnesty known by its acronym, IRCA, contained a late addition intended to legalize certain farm workers. The government expected no more than 400,000 ……Read More
What’s Wrong with This Picture: Three-Quarters of Silicon Valley Workers Are H-1Bs?
San Francisco Bay area newspaper the Mercury News, has published an article titled “H-1B: Foreign citizens make up nearly three-quarters of Silicon Valley tech workforce, ……Read More
On Denaturalizing Spies
On January 16, various news media broke the story of the FBI’s arrest of retired Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer Jerry Chun Shing Lee the ……Read More
What Is Border Security?
In recent discussions concerning the status of aliens have been granted Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), the one subject that each of the parties ……Read More
What It’s Like When Your Husband Is Facing Deportation
A Safe Place For All Last Thursday, as Donald Trump’s racist comment about immigrants from “shithole countries” was saturating headlines across the globe, Ravi Ragbir ……Read More
Chain Migration Explained by Scholars
In line with an immigration policy based on merit and skill, not on family ties, the White house is pushing to end chain migration, a ……Read More
El Salvador Accentuates the Positive in TPS Decision
On Monday the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the termination of the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation for El Salvador. In turn, the government ……Read More
To Reform H-1B, Let’s Talk About Ethnic Discrimination by Employers
While I would like the H-1B program shrunk to about one-tenth of its current size, there are smart ways to approach the problem and less-smart ……Read More
Niece-Visa Terrorist?
In a post on December 11, 2017, I detailed the entry of Akayed Ullah, a 27-year-old Bangladeshi national and lawful permanent resident who is facing ……Read More
32% of Federal Inmates Are Aliens
On December 21, the Department of Homeland Security released the Alien Incarceration Report for Fiscal Year 2017. The report discloses the number of confirmed and ……Read More
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