President Joe Biden recently rescinded former President Donald Trumpâs ban on family-based immigration amid the COVID-19 pandemic, but he is unlikely to rescind Trumpâs ban on highly-skilled temporary workers entering the U.S.
âThe optics arenât great. Biden hasnât taken any actions to rescind it, possibly because of push-back from organized labor and a thrashing from Republicans,â Indian American immigration attorney Cyrus Mehta told
India-West, confirming that temporary workers coming to the U.S. on employment-based visas are still banned, under a proclamation the former president issued last July, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S., as unemployment numbers soared above 10 percent, with more than 32 million people claiming unemployment, as reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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You might assume that even the biggest immigrant bashers would welcome bright, young people to the United States who have proven records as entrepreneurs.
That was the thinking of the Obama administration. Shortly before President Barack Obama left the White House, he created by executive order the International Entrepreneur Rule, which laid out a way for immigrant entrepreneurs to legally stay in the U.S. to start or grow new companies.
But the Trump administration, in a characteristically knee-jerk act of hostility toward immigration in almost any form, shelved the rule.
For the sake of one of our nation’s greatest historic strengths a vibrant spirit of entrepreneurialism the Biden administration should restore the rule, ideally through legislation rather than simply an executive order.
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