Vice President-elect Kamala Harris announced Dec. 8 that she would overhaul the U.S. immigration system within 100 days after taking office.
In a speech at the virtual National Immigration Integration Conference, organized by the National Partnership for New Americans, the Indian American politician vowed that the new Joe Biden-Kamala Harris administration would send a comprehensive immigration reform bill to Congress within the first 100 days, reinstate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, and repeal the Muslim ban.
She lambasted the Trump administration for its hard-nosed approach to both legal and undocumented immigration. âThese last four years have been heartbreaking and extremely difficult. Children have been separated from their families. Those fleeing persecution have been denied the ability to apply for refuge.â
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Liberian immigration activists at the State Capitol in St. Paul, Minnesota, last year. As many as 10,000 Liberian immigrants may be eligible for green cards, but a program that would help them is ending. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
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In late August over halfway through the one-year application window for a little-known program allowing thousands of Liberian immigrants to get green cards a group of Minnesota lawyers held a webinar to share updates on their cases. The takeaway: No one was sure what evidence the U.S. government was accepting to prove that an applicant was actually Liberian.
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The Trump administration lost an H-1B visa case for the third time in December as a US court ruled against the Department of Labour’s (DOL) move to hike the prevailing wage rates for H-1B visa holders. Third loss for Trump administration as US varsities win lawsuit against H-1B wage increase.
New Delhi: The Donald Trump administration lost an H-1B visa case for the third time in December as a US court ruled against the Department of Labour’s (DOL s) move to hike the prevailing wage rates for H-1B visa holders. The lawsuit was filed by 17 individual and organisational plaintiffs, including Purdue University, University of Michigan, University of Denver and American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). The court verdict came as huge relief to thousands of skilled foreign workers in the US and American IT companies.
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The lawsuit was filed by 17 individual and organisational plaintiffs, including Purdue University and AILA. The judge said that the poorly drafted, improperly issued rule did not comply with the procedural requirements for rule making and was substantively arbitrary, incorrect, and irrational.
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The DOL has been ordered to reissue prevailing wage determinations that were issued under the rule.
PUNE: A US court on Monday ruled against the Department of Labor’s move to increase the prevailing wage rates for H-1B visa holders the third verdict that has gone against US President Donald Trump’s administration on this matter.