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The Biden administration can jump-start a series of necessary reforms by issuing a clear and expansive executive order in its first days that condemns the damage caused to the immigration system by the past administration, pauses deportations, and outlines principles to guide policy development over the next four years.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton points the finger at Congress for a broken immigration system and asks other states to step up and help. The United States has all but vacated its status as a beacon for refugees under the failed leadership of the Trump administration.  Over the last four years, refugee admissions have declined steadily from the 110,000 allowed in 2017. Under the Trump administration’s ceiling for 2021, the U.S. would accept a mere 15,000 refugees in the coming year — ab...

CATO Shows Joe Biden How to Flood the Labor Market for Wall Street 18 Dec 2020 Joe Biden’s deputies can bypass Congress and use their bureaucratic powers to open the U.S. economy to millions of foreign graduates, blue-collar workers, and chain-migration families, says a legal guidebook posted by the Cato Institute. “The new administration should go far beyond simply rescinding [President Donald] Trump’s changes and adopt reforms that make legal immigration easier … this compilation fil...

Foreign Refugee Managers: Keep Americans in the Dark 18 Dec 2020 Nearly all managers in taxpayer-funded, refugee-delivery organizations say the public should have no say about the delivery of unskilled refugees into Americans’ neighborhoods, job markets, and schools, says a survey by refugee groups. The 61-page survey was released December 8 by the Refugee Council USA and the Center for Migration Studies, as the refugee groups cheered Joe Biden for his campaign-trail promise to dramatically e...

President Trump restricted legal immigration through a series of unprecedented regulations and presidential orders during his one term. Once President‐​elect Joe Biden takes office, he will have the opportunity to reverse these actions and deregulate what is—and was even before Trump—an overly burdensome and expensive legal immigration system. This compendium of 30 concise proposals by 15 authors—including several of America’s leading immigration law experts—can help the Biden ad...

738,000 Fewer Immigrants From Abroad Immigrant visas are issued to prospective legal permanent residents by the Department of State (DOS), usually following a petition by a U.S. sponsor approved by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). Before President Trump, 86 percent of immigrant visas were issued to the immediate family members of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents—spouses, children, parents, and siblings (and their spouses and minor children). Fiancés and their chi...

Making the same sort of argument for secondary education in america. >> it sounds that way and a lot of people have taken it that way which goes to the controversy but its not really that way legally. what the justice is doing there is posing a question. thats why he uses the word maybe and thats why he says some are asserting. indeed, we can put this up on the screen, hes referencing explicitly a brief that was filed to the court by two parties, basically two scholars who were not taking a posi...