We’re living in a very strange time as it pertains to language.
It seems to me that, in many cases, words are being treated as important when they aren’t; in other instances, they’re being changed willy-nilly when it means a lot.
Of my many thoughts on the subject, here’s one: If you decide to call a truck a car, you haven’t turned the truck into something new; you’ve merely changed the definition of “car.” The new meaning: “truck.”
Anyway, onto the unrelated story at hand.
File it as you see fit.
The Biden administration is
Bay Area advocates applaud dropping illegal alien in reference to undocumented immigrants
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President Joe Biden signs several executive orders directing immigration actions for his administration as Vice President Kamala Harris looks on in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021. (Doug Mills/Pool/Getty Images/TNS)Doug Mills/Pool / TNSShow MoreShow Less
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DACA recipient Vanessa Mejia and her mother, Connie, watch from their living room in Oakland, Calif., as Joe Biden takes the oath of office at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021.Scott Strazzante / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
Long road for a Pearl Harbor veteran, 99, ends with citizenship oath in San Antonio
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Heinz Bachman, 99, raises his hand Thursday to take the Oath of Allegiance before Tina Almond, director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services field office in San Antonio. . A Pearl Harbor survivor, Bachman became a citizen as a child when his dad was naturalized in 1934, but needed the proof to renew his Texas driver’s license.Lisa Krantz /Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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Linda Arce gives her neighbor, Heinz Bachman, 99, a hug after he was sworn in as a U.S. citizen at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services field office in San Antonio on Thursday. At right is her sister, Diana Flores, also Bachman s neighbor since 1961. Bachman became a citizen as a child when his dad was naturalized in 1934, but needed the proof to renew his Texas driver’s license.Lisa Krantz /Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
Joe Biden had earlier said Donald Trump s immigration policies are cruel. (File photo)
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The Biden administration has announced that it is delaying the H-1B policy of the previous Trump administration on allocation of the popular foreign work visas by continuing with the lottery system until December 31, 2021, to give the immigration agency more time to develop, test and implement the modifications to the registration system.
On January 7, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced to do away with the traditional lottery system in deciding the successful applicants for the H-1B visas.
The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers in specialty occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise. The technology companies depend on it to hire tens of thousands of employees each year from countries like India and China.