The New York Times has an article discussing Obama’s declaration that any real discussion of immigration reform has to be postponed at least until next year.
Depending on how you look at the situation, it’s promising that the President is still addressing the need for comprehensive immigration reform. Or it’s frustrating that it has been officially [...]
Archive for the ‘Immigration Policy’ Category
NY Times: Obama Sets Immigration Changes for 2010
Posted in Immigration Policy on August 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Coming to America: Expectations
Posted in Immigration Policy on March 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
An Iraqi blogger from the NY Times writes about her expectations about coming to America — in particular the education system. She is Christian and worked for the NY Times as a translator in Iraq. She will be coming to America soon.
The blog entry begins with this paragraph:
“I don’t know what I’m going to face [...]
Skilled Immigrants and “Brain waste”
Posted in Immigration Policy on December 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Los Angeles Times discusses the issues that face educated immigrants who are “under-employed” when they arrive in the United States. A study reveals that approximately 1.3 million college educated immigrants are in low-level jobs or unemployed because their foreign credentials are not recognized here in the United States — thereby creating a brain waste.
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US Immigrants in the Olympics
Posted in Immigration Policy, tagged Olympics on August 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Completely off topic, but in honor of the Olympics starting in Beijing this week, I thought I would post articles discussing foreign-born immigrant athletes proudly competing for the United States. By most counts there are approximately 33 foreign born athletes (who are all now US Citizens) competing in the Olympics on the US Team.
USA [...]
New US Passports
Posted in Citizenship, Immigration Policy, tagged biometrics, Citizenship, Passport, RFID, US Passports on July 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We just got our renewed passport, but it’s the new US biometric passports with the RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) chip.
It looks like this:
The new passport has that tiny square with the circle inside emblem at the bottom. The covers are very hard and solid compared to the flimsy covers of the previous [...]
American Employers and Immigration Law
Posted in Entertainment Visas, H2-B, Immigration Policy, tagged Business Visas, H-2B Visas, Immigration Policy on July 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The New York Times has an article about the various efforts that US businesses are mounting to combat tougher enforcement of immigration laws. Read the article here.
No one seems to be happy with the current system, which penalizes too harshly, but doesn’t give enough leeway to hire legally the personnel that they need. [...]
