mostly immigration policy
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We crunched the numbers. Without boosting immigration significantly now, the U.S. will sacrifice our position as the world’s largest economy by 2030, and leave the reserves of vital programs like Social Security depleted by 2034.
Read here: fwd.us/news/new-report-incre…
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This problem is about to get worse.
The administration is planning to propose eliminating the 60-day grace period between H-1Bs losing their job and having to leave the country.
This will give employers *even more* special leverage over visa holder employees.
An unspoken reality of the US semiconductor industry: H-1B visa dependency creates a built-in system of worker abuse that causes knowledge decay.
When losing your job triggers a 60-day deportation clock, management holds absolute leverage over you. The result is predictable: forced work hours, zero pushback on bad design decisions, and total public silence.
It’s bad for foreign engineers, bad for domestic talent, and it guarantees that deep technical knowledge never leaves corporate walls.
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These new restrictions will only make it harder for international students and researchers to complete their studies in the U.S. and contribute their education to the U.S. workforce after graduating….
Students on F-1 visas will be admitted for up to four years in the US based on the length of their academic program. After that, they’d have to apply for an extension with DHS.
news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-…
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Big @nytimes story on the massive explosion of 287(g) agreements. Our data shows we’re approaching a 1500% increase in the roaming, at large Task Force model since Jan 2025. A signature way the reconciliation fueling a massive expansion of enforcement:
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Most DACA recipients are over the age of 31. They began adulthood with a new chance: work, drive & live without fear of deportation. Now, with the admin goal to limit protections they risk losing that opportunity & all they built with it.
My latest:
npr.org/2026/05/19/g-s1-1214…
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“Diana A., 34, woke up one morning to find she was no longer able to legally work in the U.S….She couldn't drive. Diana is a decade-long recipient of …DACA, after she came to the U.S. illegally with her parents 24 years ago…” check out @Ximena_Bustillo’s deep reporting ->
Most DACA recipients are over the age of 31. They began adulthood with a new chance: work, drive & live without fear of deportation. Now, with the admin goal to limit protections they risk losing that opportunity & all they built with it.
My latest:
npr.org/2026/05/19/g-s1-1214…
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The Trump Admin has waged a silent campaign against DACA recipients.
Through delays, enforcement, & bureaucracy, individuals who only know America as their home are at risk of deportation.
Read my op-ed in the Washington Post to learn how President Trump broke his promise to Dreamers.
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Tom Homan is promising if he gets $71B more from ICE and CBP that what people say in LA, Chicago, Minneapolis “ain’t shit” compared to what is coming
“You ain’t seen shit yet,” Homan said. “Mass deportations are coming.”
washingtonexaminer.com/polic…
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I just forced a vote on the Senate floor to overturn a Trump rule that could kick 3.8 million workers out of their jobs. My resolution had bipartisan support, but most Senate Republicans voted it down.
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This means workers with legal status will lose their work authorization because of bureaucratic delays, businesses will lose workers, and prices will go up. This reckless action won't just hurt "red states" or "blue states" – we will all pay the price.
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A freeze on work permits and other benefits for immigrants from travel ban countries has dragged on for five months.
People losing jobs and income have filed dozens of lawsuits challenging the policy. They're securing a limited number of court wins.
news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-…
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Immigrants with DACA were protected from deportation, but since Trump’s return, the government has arrested nearly 300 DACA recipients, including 75 in Texas. bit.ly/3QAif1V
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While President Donald Trump has touted a sharp drop in illegal entries to the country, a Cato Institute analysis shows legal immigration has fallen even more dramatically.
The Cato analysis shows that 132,000 fewer people are being admitted per month through legal pathways.
Watch @ElizLanders' interview with the study’s author, David Bier. He is also the director of immigration studies at Cato, a libertarian think tank in Washington, D.C.
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I spoke with four DACA recipients who say they've lost their jobs because USCIS hasn't renewed their status and work permits. Read my latest:
notus.org/immigration/daca-s…
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ICE is detaining DACA recipients — and it’s growing harder for them to get out timesofsandiego.com/immigrat…
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Twenty thousand families with mixed immigration status would lose public housing benefits under a Trump administration proposal.
HUD says immigrants are "pushing aside" US citizens, but most people who would lose out under the new policy are Americans--almost half of them kids.
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An immigrant family is grappling with the ordeal suffered by a 3-year-old girl who endured alleged sexual abuse while her father fought for five months for her release from federal custody.
abcnews.link/8t4r5FY
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“….physicians have been forced to stop seeing patients after they were pushed out of their jobs because of a Trump administration policy that took effect in January and froze visa extensions….
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Texas is cutting undocumented immigrants off from school, work and driving.
The sweeping rule changes, all enacted outside the typical legislative process, have upended life for noncitizens, including those who are here legally.
texastribune.org/2026/04/02/…
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A slowdown in US visa processing is wreaking havoc on foreign doctors’ lives dlvr.it/TRplzq
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For a year now, I’ve been documenting how U.S. citizens are getting caught up in immigration enforcement operations.
But American children are increasingly collateral damage in the government’s campaign for mass deportations l
propublica.org/article/ameri…
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NEW: For the first time, ProPublica has been able to quantify how many U.S. citizen children have been directly affected by Trump’s immigration crackdown: more than 11,000 kids had a parent detained — and that’s an undercount. 1/ 🧵
propublica.org/article/trump…
