Until immigration hard-liners began running amok in the White House four years ago, the United States stood as the global leader in accepting refugees for permanent resettlement more than 3.4 million people since the end of the Vietnam War. Among President Biden’s many challenges, as he acknowledged in a speech at the State Department on Thursday, will be to not only regain that status but also to resurrect the collapsed system of nonprofit agencies that do the actual work of resettling the new arrivals. It won’t be easy.
Why bother? Because it is who we are as a nation. Refugees seek resettlement because they do not have homes to which they can return safely, often because they face persecution on account of their race, ethnicity, gender, religion or politics. As a society, we believe in personal freedom, in the right to openly discuss political views without fear of retribution, to hold and express religious beliefs (or to not believe at all), and that all people should be t
Immigration reform should focus on employers, end black market labor
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KP George urges Samsung CEO to bring $17B chip factory to Fort Bend
Roy Kent, Staff writer
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In this file photo a woman walks past the Samsung logo at the company s Seocho building in Seoul on Oct. 25, 2020.JUNG YEON-JE, Contributor / AFP via Getty Images
Following a report late last week that Samsung Electronics Co. is considering building a chip manufacturing facility in the U.S., Fort Bend County Judge KP George wasted little time in letting the company’s CEO that the county is situated to host its facility.
George sent a letter to Ki Nam Kim to let him know that Fort Bend County is ready to get to work.
Amnesty Polls Show Americans Want Jobs for Americans
23 Jan 2021
Business groups are trying to reassure politicians it is safe to go back into amnesty waters even though many politicians remember their peers who did not long survive the summer of 2013.
The
New York Times‘ chief White House reporter, Michael Shear, echoed the corporate reassurances in a January 19 report on President Joe Biden’s amnesty plan:
Todd Schulte, the president of FWD.us, an immigrant rights group created by Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and others with ties to Silicon Valley, said he too was “deeply encouraged” to see Mr. Biden make a pathway to citizenship a “clear priority on Day 1.” Polls, he said, show that 75 percent of Americans support that goal.
Immigration
Joe Biden To Pause Border Wall Construction, Issue Protections For DACA Recipients And Roll Back Other Trump Immigration Policies
The incoming president also plans to send a comprehensive immigration reform plan to Congress after he takes office.
January 20, 2021, 2:12 PM
Mexican migrants pass time in an encampment in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, as they wait their turn to seek asylum in the U.S.
On the same afternoon he s sworn in as the nation s
46
th president, Joe Biden will take executive actions that will undo several of former President Donald Trump s immigration policies, his transition team announced Wednesday.
The list of orders includes reissuing protections established under the 2012 Deferred Acton for Childhood Arrivals program, halting further construction of a border barrier and rolling back interior immigration enforcement priorities put in place by the previous administration.
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