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The crisis over Mr. Rawat’s continuance arose after the national leadership of the party despatched two central observers to the State after consistent complaints on Mr. Rawat’s style of functioning within the party and reported popularity in the State. A meeting of the BJP Legislature Party is scheduled for March 10.
How the Trump Admin Left Long-Lasting Mark on US Immigration Courts
The Trump administration gave lifetime positions to immigration judges more likely to deport immigrants than previous judges, encouraged deportation rulings during judgesâ training and appointed judges with no immigration experience.
Former US attorney general Jeff Sessions speaks on issues related to visas and travel after then-US President Donald Trump signed a new travel ban order in Washington, US, March 6, 2017. Photo: Reuters/Kevin Lamarque
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On a rainy September day in 2018, Jeff Sessions, then US attorney general, addressed one of the largest classes of newly hired immigration judges in American history. “The vast majority of asylum claims are not valid,” he said during a swearing-in ceremony in Falls Church, Virginia, according to his prepared remarks. If judges do their job, he said, âthe number of illegal aliens and the number of baseless claims will fall”.
Technology companies depend on H-1B visa to hire tens of thousands of employees each year from countries like India and China Three Republican U.S. lawmakers have introduced a legislation in Congress to bar American employers from hiring H-1B workers, who are mostly highly-skilled Indian IT professionals, if they have recently, or plan to fire their local workers, seeking to put an end to the “allure of cheap foreign labour”.
Introduced in the House of Representatives by Republican congressmen Mo Brooks, Matt Gaetz and Lance Gooden, the American Jobs First Act proposes to overhaul the H-1B visa programme by making necessary changes in the Immigration and Nationality Act.
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In January, the then President Donald Trump had extended the ban on issuing of new H-1B visas till March 31
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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas speaks during a press briefing at the White House, in Washington on March 1, 2021.
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In January, the then President Donald Trump had extended the ban on issuing of new H-1B visas till March 31
The Biden administration on March 1 indicated it is still undecided on ending the Trump-era ban on issuing of new H-1B visas, with the Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas asserting that its top priority is the acute needs of individuals fleeing persecution.
Reforms after end of pandemic?
House Democrats may introduce immigration measures in a graded manner, giving priority to popular measures like helping refugees, agriculture workers and people brought to the US illegally as children first, leaving no leverage to push through less popular measures like increasing immigration for skilled workers.
However, Republican Senator Marco Rubio is of the view that a skilled work visa during pandemic-sparked economic crisis would be very difficult to manage.
While Democratic Senator Robert Menendez, who introduced Biden s bill, said any additional foreign worker visas would only get support as part of a broader bill that includes a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.