Americans oppose the inflow of foreign visa workers and seasonal workers by roughly two-to-one during the coronavirus epidemic and crash, according to a new survey by the highly ranked Ipsos polling firm.
The Trump adminis -tration can enforce a rule allowing it to deny legal immigration status to noncitizens likely to receive public benefits like Medicaid, public housing assistance, or food stamps for a certain amount of time, the Fourth Circuit said Wednesday.
President Donald Trump on Monday barred federal agencies from dismissing U.S. citizens or green card holders and replacing them with foreign workers and blasted the Tennessee Vally Authority for having done so.
Wednesday marked a break in that history. Staffers (Vanguard calls them “crew’) say it was the deadline for 1,300 of them to move to Infosys, an India-based outsourcing contractor; or leave to search for new jobs.
A New York judge blocked President Donald Trump’s “Public Charge” rule for would-be legal immigrants, saying it hinders national efforts to contain coronavirus.
California is suing the Trump administration to block an order that would exclude illegal aliens from counting toward congressional apportionment.
The Justice Department announced today that it reached a settlement agreement with ASTA CRS Inc., a provider of IT staffing and consulting services with offices in Ashburn, Virginia, and Greenbelt, Maryland accused of unlawfully favoring foreign visa workers over qualified Americans.
As COVID-19 cases surge across the border, new questions are being asked about the nexus of immigration and the spread of the coronavirus.
The New York Times column "Trump Suspends Visas Allowing Hundreds of Thousands of Foreigners to Work in the U.S." covers the Administration's recent order to halt foreign work visas through the end of this year, while the nation suffers massive job losses stemming from the pandemic.
Yesterday, the House of Representatives passed Rep. Judy Chu's (D-Calif.) NO BAN Act and Rep. Pramila Jayapal's (D-Wash.) Access to Counsel Act as amendments to separate legislation. The bills were passed mostly along party lines and are unlikely to receive consideration in the Republican controlled Senate.