Foreign Policy and National Security
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned down the case of a man who claimed his green card application was wrongly rejected because he had trained with U.S.-backed militants that fought the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The H-1B visa program is rife with wage theft, according to a new report from the Economic Policy Institute think tank, which urges the U.S. Department of Labor to step up its oversight of the specialty occupation visa program… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The New York City Council voted Thursday to allow hundreds of thousands of noncitizens to cast ballots in local Big Apple elections, making it the biggest city in the U.S. to approve an extension of voting rights to immigrants… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection will have its first Senate-confirmed leader in more than two years, after lawmakers voted 50 to 47 on Tuesday to greenlight President Joe Biden’s pick to head the agency, Tucson Police Chief Chris Magnus… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Oral arguments heard Monday at the U.S. Supreme Court suggested that the justices have reservations about curtailing federal courts’ authority to review the executive branch’s “non-discretionary” determinations of noncitizens’ eligibility for protection from deportation… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 