28 Dec 2020
President-elect Joe Biden’s pro-migration allies are pressuring him to maximize migration into the United States, despite the public’s deep opposition to cheap-labor migration.
The federal government should stop detaining migrants as they move into the U.S. workforce, says a spokesman for the American Immigration Council, which is a spinoff of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. “End detention now,” spokesman Aaron Reichlin-Melnick declared December 23.
“We need to create … [migration] avenues for [Latin American] people who want a job” in the United States, says Andrew Selee, president of the Migration Policy Institute.
Biden’s deputies should make it easier for companies to hire foreign graduates for white-collar jobs, says the investor-backed Cato Institute.
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The second round of direct checks authorized in the almost $900 billion coronavirus relief package are not a carbon copy of the first checks, starting with the halved, $600 payout size.
But many rules about stimulus checks 2.0 remain the same and that means some theories about the government money that were untrue in the spring are just as untrue now.
Those are canards like some supposed obligation to pay back
the money (wrong) or the capacity of some random cold-caller to get your money
quicker (that’s a scam).
Federal regulators are already trying to prevent possible confusion. Congress passed the relief bill on Monday and President Donald Trump gave into his misgivings over the relatively modest sign of the stimulus compared to the first relief measures announced in March, among other concerns. Last Sunday, he signed the massive pandemic-aid bill, averting a government shutdown in the process.
Stimulus Is Finally (Almost) Live. The House and Senate are scheduled to vote on a $900 billion pandemic relief package along with a $1.4 trillion measure to fund the government through September 30, 2021. But even if both houses are able to pass a relief bill, it still must be signed by the President. While there has been more movement than we have seen in months, and there is a tangible relief bill the major provisions of which the parties have agreed to, we remain in wait for finality.
So, what is there to report on the stimulus front? Well, starting last week,
agreeing to an approximately $900 Billion stimulus package. Indeed, while this newsletter typically goes live on Friday, since we here at PMN have rode the roller coaster that is the stimulus negotiations, and this is the most optimistic we have felt since the CARES Act passed back in March, we delayed publication to today. Thankfully, Congressional leaders, after much hand-wringing,
5 ways to do more pro bono in 2021
Looking Ahead to 2021
The most rewarding work ABA President Patricia Lee Refo has done has been pro bono.
“Big and small, and that is the beauty and the power of the ABA’s pro bono offerings,” she says. “We offer bite-size opportunities like Free Legal Answers that take a small amount of time and make a huge difference in someone’s life. We also offer opportunities that are slightly larger that might be more appropriate for a team of lawyers in a larger firm to undertake together.
“The point is, whatever practice setting you’re in, the ABA offers you an opportunity to serve your community through pro bono work that works for you.”
Updated Dec 20, 2020 | 14:12 IST
A US appellate court referred to as ninth circuit, deemed as arbitrary and capricious a decision of the USCIS services in 2017 of not recognising computer programmers as “speciality” occupation for H-1b visa Good news for IT workers as US court rules H-1B ‘speciality’ visas may be granted to computer programmers | Photo Credit: PTI
In a victory for Information Technology (IT) companies battling a 2017 US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) decision to rescind an order making computer programmers eligible for ‘speciality’ H-1B. visa, a US appellate court has overruled the same.
It will be now possible for US IT companies to sponsor techies under the category for temporary immigration to the US under ‘speciality’ H-1B visas.