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The uncontrolled surge of migrants at the southern border is being used as a major talking point against President Biden’s preferred immigration legislation and his approach to the issue generally.
The Republican National Committee has characterized Biden’s policy as “open borders and closed schools,” hitting the administration on immigration and COVID-19 simultaneously.
“Joe Biden’s policies are creating a crisis at the border,” said RNC rapid response director Tommy Pigott in a statement. “Far from reversing these policies, however, Biden is refusing to even
recognize a crisis exists. It is a complete failure of leadership, and America’s border communities are paying the price.”
Mon, 03/15/2021
LAWRENCE “All politics is local” remains a common refrain in governmental circles. But according to a new book, all immigration politics involves a different region.
“We always tend to look at Washington, but all the immigration policy activity over the last decade or more has been happening at the state level,” said Gary Reich, associate professor of political science at the University of Kansas.
Reich reinforces that argument in “The Politics of Immigration Across the United States: Every State a Border State?” (Routledge). The book examines how states deal with their immigrant populations, with some enacting punitive policies and others embracing them as de facto citizens.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced Saturday that he has directed the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to support a "government-wide effort" to house child migrants as numbers continue to spike.
Anti-immigrant group, The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), has objected to a series of Biden administration rule reversals affecting the H1B visa route. In comments submitted to the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), FAIR opposed the Biden administration’s decision to revert to a lottery system for allocating H1B visas.
Under the Trump administration, a rule was implemented that the former President claimed would ‘protect the H1B visa program against unscrupulous employers and help American workers.’
Under the Trump rule – known as the Modification of Registration Requirement for Petitioners Seeking To File Cap-Subject H1B Petitions – United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) was instructed to prioritize H1B petitions for higher-paid and highly-skilled foreign workers for H1B cap-subject visas.