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Pew survey finds low-income, minority respondents overwhelmingly support keeping schools closed until teachers vaccinated. Upper-income, white, and Republican respondents more likely to want schools reopened as soon as possible.
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"If anything, the past year has proved that lots of work can be done from anywhere, sans lengthy commutes on crowded trains or highways."
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Senate Democrats propose canceling a minimum of $10,000 in student loan debt as part of coronavirus relief.
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The State Department will rollout a pilot program later this year for stateside visa renewals for temporary visa holders
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The US is missing out on $3.9 trillion in potential economic gains by failing to address green card backlogs, according to projections in a new
@BPC_Bipartisan
report.
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Iranian scientists suing the State Department say that added vetting on immigrant hopefuls from the country is arbitrary and undermines the talent goals of the White House's executive order on artificial intelligence
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A pilot program allowing a limited number of H-1B workers to renew visas in the US is expected to launch in January, the State Department says.
#visas
#H1B
#immigration
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Some professional news: 📢 this is my last day at Inside Higher Ed after more than three years at the site. I'm not leaving the education beat though. Starting next month, I'll be covering ed policy at Bloomberg Gov.
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Lawmakers are asking the Biden administration to allow immigrants to file all employment-based green card applications at the beginning of the fiscal year, which would allow them to secure greater flexibility to change jobs and travel outside the US
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Jerry Falwell Jr. has been one of the most vocal supporters of Trump's executive order on campus free speech. But his critics say Liberty University has one of the worst track records of censorship on campus.
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Should incarcerated Americans be allowed to vote?
Bernie: yes
Harris and Warren: maybe
Mayor Pete: nope
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Pete Buttigieg just got a shoutout from Heritage Action Executive Director Tim Chapman for arguing free college is regressive.
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A rule establishing a pilot program for stateside H-1B visa renewals is under review at the White House
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Labor Secretary Marty Walsh this morning told lawmakers that they must pass immigration reform to add needed workers to the U.S. That means a pathway to citizenship for foreign workers, not just expanded temporary work visa programs, he said.
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Democrats are planning to bring a bill to the House floor that would phase out per-country caps for employment-based green cards,
@ellengilmer
reports. Those caps have are a key factor behind years-long backlogs faced by applicants from India and China
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The Labor Department aims to strengthen protections for farmworkers, who are exempted from the National Labor Relations Act, to advocate for improved conditions on the job. The sector has historically faced major challenges to unionization efforts.
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I wrote this week about how high-skilled workers — most of them women — are being forced out of jobs because of delays renewing work authorization.
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Lawmakers are urging the Biden administration to do more to protect children of employment-based visa holders at risk of aging out of legal status. They say DHS should use tools like deferred action and parole to get relief to documented dreamers
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Employment-based immigration advocates are frustrated w/ a Senate spending bill that doesn't deliver on hopes of restoring expired worker green cards,
@ellengilmer
and I report.
The bill helps family-based green card seekers instead but may still evolve.
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In remarks on student debt cancellation today,
@SenWarren
says "the naysayers and the critics are getting louder for one reason and one reason only: because we’re winning."
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New from me: Some 280,000 employment-based green cards are available in 2022--twice the number in a typical year. But
@USCIS
will have to make big leaps in efficiency to avoid wasting thousands of visas like in previous years.
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Some personnel news from me: starting Monday, I'll be moving over to
@BLaw
to cover immigration.
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New from me: extreme wait times for visa appointments at US consular offices are impacting businesses and the foreign workers they rely on
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US companies are looking to relocate foreign talent abroad as a fallback option when they lose out on the lottery for H-1B visas. Canada is seen as the top destination for those high-skilled workers
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The Ninth Circuit is set to hear oral arguments today in a challenge to visa policies that have added years to Indian plaintiffs' wait in the green card backlog
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A Ninth Circuit panel's ruling that US citizens can bring bias claims against employers under the Civil Rights Act could create a circuit court split and lead to further litigation by US-born workers against companies hiring workers on temporary visas
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A Senate hearing on legal migration tomorrow will include two former
@USCIS
chief counsels as witnesses.
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I joined the Immigration Nerds podcast to talk about the projected costs of green card backlogs in a recent
@BPC_Bipartisan
report. We dug into the workforce and human impact of visa wait times behind those numbers.
#immigration
#greencards
#employment
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Former Education Secretary
@JohnBKing
tells senators it's almost certain that every school district in the fall will need some degree of hybrid in-person/online instruction.
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Teamed up with
@ellengilmer
today to break down what's behind massive green card backlogs and the prospects for action by Congress and the Biden administration.
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A pilot for domestic renewal of H-1B visas cleared White House review, the last regulatory hurdle before release of full details on the State Department program
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The barriers to higher ed for currently and formerly incarcerated students are getting increasing scrutiny from lawmakers. I wrote about two proposals from Brian Schatz to make college a real option for those students.
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I posted this Pew survey earlier and should have written that Black, Hispanic, and Asian respondents overwhelmingly supported keeping schools closed until teachers are vaccinated -- not minority respondents. Thanks to
@mdawriter
for pointing it out.
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Growing labor shortages and mounting hurdles for sponsoring foreign workers justify adding a streamlined pathway to green cards for jobs in a broad swathe of industries, employers and immigration advocates say
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Biden will call on Congress to cancel $10,000 in debt for federal student loan borrowers.
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A long-awaited
@TravelGov
pilot program allowing some H-1B workers to renew their visas in the US--and avoid uncertainty over delays returning from abroad--is set to launch today
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I have six ideas for how Jeff Bezos could spend that money without going to space.
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Foreign tech workers on temporary work visas face added pressure after a job loss--they must find a new visa sponsors quickly or be forced to return to their home country. My latest:
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Not many actors on a run like Robert Pattinson right now.
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Immigration attorneys say they're seeing a rise in visa applications being referred for extra scrutiny at US consular offices--a process known as administrative processing that many complain leaves immigrants in the dark on timing or reasons for the delay
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@mdawriter
Hey Melinda, you're right that I shouldn't have used minority in the tweet. I'll avoid that in the future and acknowledge the mistake in a separate tweet.
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Employer groups are crying foul over USCIS fee hikes that put them on the hook for growing asylum costs. The agency says it used an "ability-to-pay principle" to arrive at a $600 asylum program fee on top of other costs for employment-based visas
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Daunting wait times for green cards and work permits have fueled a spike in litigation over administrative delays by immigrants who have run out of other options
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The House Judiciary Committee just took up H.R. 3648, which would phase out per country caps for employment-based green cards and lift them for family-based green cards.
Today,
@HouseJudiciary
is considering two of my immigration bills to create an independent immigration courts system & to modify the per-country limits on family- & employment-based visas.
📺Watch live📺
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Obama White House veteran and
@TICAS_org
president
@JamesKvaal
picked for the Education Department's top higher ed job.
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Great reporting from
@ellengilmer
on fears of poison pill amendments to the Democratic reconciliation bill and hopes from some immigration advocates that the package could be used to restore expired green cards.
Democrats are mobilizing to present a united front as Republicans eye border security amendments on Democrats tax + climate + health bill.
Updated story here: (no paywall)
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Last month
@USCISDirector
told two Bay Area lawmakers that extending the 60-day grace period for laid off H-1B workers isn't likely to help individuals affected by tech layoffs because of the lengthy regulatory process involved.
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Story now out from behind the paywall:
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In Senate hearing on barriers to legal migration,
@AlexPadilla4CA
notes "we’re still relying on an immigration framework that was last overhauled before the launch of the World Wide Web." Says that's had "devastating consequences" for families and economy.
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A federal appeals has affirmed the legality of an employment authorization program for spouses of H-1B visa holders
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Silicon Valley lawmakers are making a renewed push for
@USCIS
to extend the grace period for laid-off foreign tech workers to find new employment in the wake of new job losses in the industry
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The H-1B lottery system would shift to a selection process based on each unique beneficiary, rather than total number of entries by employers in proposed regulations released Friday.
The change aims to address attempts to game the lottery by employers.
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Wonder how it feels for presidential candidates who spent the past two years attaching their names to every landmark progressive bill to see Beto and Mayor Pete say “maybe we don’t need Medicare for All and free college.”
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This week was my two year anniversary at Inside Higher Ed, which is the longest I’ve spent at any job.
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The Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to the Optional Practical Training program backed by Ted Cruz and other Republican lawmakers. Employers say the program is critical for adding talent in high-demand STEM fields
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Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has introduced a resolution defending Americans' First Amendment rights to take part in the BDS movement.
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About 800,000 immigrants at risk of losing employment authorization in the coming months will get relief from a rule announced by the Biden administration Thursday
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An engineer laid off by TripAdvisor during the pandemic interviewed with 25 employers before finding a job with two days left on his work visa. More foreign tech workers are facing similar circumstances after thousands of job losses in the industry.
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My breakdown of employment-related provisions of the Senate border package released last night, including:
- 250,000 new green cards over 5 years
- fix for age-out issue for some documented dreamers
- employment authorization for H-1B dependents
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A Senate spending bill could salvage unused green cards from the past two years,
@ellengilmer
reports.
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New from me: Tougher competition for international students at US colleges and grad programs, who were coming in lower numbers even before Covid, means a worsening talent crunch down the line for employers
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Buy admission the right way.
Authorities on alleged college admissions scam: "We're not talking about donating a building so that a school's more likely to take you son or daughter. We're talking about deception and fraud."
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Betsy DeVos will testify next week at the House Ed & Labor committee on the Trump administration's student debt relief policies for defrauded borrowers.
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Lamar Alexander *backs* a bipartisan bill to end an exemption to the 90/10 rule for veteran education benefits — a priority for veterans groups that’s been opposed by for-profit colleges. More details for Bloomberg subscribers here:
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The largely paper-based system at
@USCIS
has hampered the agency's work amid pandemic constraints and fueled backlogs for immigration benefits, an inspector general report found. USCIS says plans to digitize its workload are underway.
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This is one of the best pieces about for-profit colleges written this year. And it shows how state-level regulation and lobbying can have big implications for student debt even if decisions by Betsy DeVos get much more attention.
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Since this tweet is getting shared a lot, I checked in with the Education Department -- a spox told me Betsy DeVos was *not* in contact with the person at CPAC who later tested positive for coronavirus.
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Beto proposing the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program is one of the funnier things to happen on the campaign recently.
O'Rourke also suggests forgiving student loan debt if the student goes into public service
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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is doubling their size of a pilot program that allows students in prison to get federal aid. She’s approved 67 additional colleges to join the Second Chance Pell program.
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The Ninth Circuit is set to hear oral arguments over whether a US citizen can file discrimination claims under the Civil Rights Act. The plaintiff claims hiring practices at Facebook parent Meta favor foreign workers on H-1B visas.
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Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn has signed on as a co-sponsor of the College Transparency Act, which would create a student-level data system to track outcomes such as employment and loan repayment
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DeVos says she can't tell Davis how many staffers are currently reviewing borrower defense claims today (New York Times recently reported that team had shrunk to three people) but says that backlog is being addressed.
#DeVoshearing
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My final story of 2023: a look at how ongoing labor shortages are fueling efforts to remove barriers to work permits for new groups of migrants in the US
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A judge's order freezing the Keeping Families Together program was improper because GOP states don't have standing to challenge the parole process, the Biden administration argued in a new motion
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More than 400 business groups led by
@USChamber
are launching a campaign today pressing lawmakers for a bipartisan deal addressing border security, employment-based immigration and temporary work visas
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.
@JohnCornyn
, the ranking Republican on the committee, highlights per country caps that contribute to employment-based green card backlog that hits Indian nationals in particular.
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Good coverage from
@ellengilmer
with the latest on Democrats' plans to address immigration through reconciliation as protesters call on lawmakers to disregard the Senate parliamentarian.
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This is the same argument Hillary Clinton made against free college in the last Dem primary. I wonder just how many billionaires have children taking out student loan debt though.
Buttigieg making moderate case for student debt relief. Not cancellation, but refinancing, focusing on limiting infleunce of for profit schools, doubling Pell Grants.
"I just dont believe all of us should be paying for the children" of billionaires.
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NYU's medical school saw a 102 percent increase in applications from minority groups underrepresented in medicine after announcing it would offer free tuition to all students.
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Noticing that a lot of folks are under the impression that affluent people don’t take out debt.
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.
@SenWarren
is first member of HELP committee to ask about college lobby's request for liability protection from Congress. "What message does it send to our families and students?" she says.
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Not weird or creepy at all to demand a woman talk to you while you wave around a bunch of cash.
Ben Shapiro challenges Ocasio-Cortez to a debate, offers $10,000 campaign donation
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Some further clarification from Department of Ed:
- This does indeed apply to *all* federal student loans, not just Federal Direct loans.
- It’s automatic for borrowers – they won’t need to opt in or apply for forbearance.
- End date hasn’t been set. Will be retroactive to today.
President Trump announces he is waiving interest on all federal student loans "until further notice" in response to impact of coronavirus.
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The Department of Homeland Security treated foreign graduates hired by fraudulent Optional Practical Training employers as co-conspirators, denying them visas without a chance to respond, according to a lawsuit filed this week in federal court in Seattle
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The State Department says it's pursuing an option for workers to renew expired visas in the US without leaving the country but hasn't offered any timetable so far
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Elizabeth Warren, who's led the way on big higher ed proposals in the presidential primary, is introducing universal child care legislation along with Rep. Deb Haaland.
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California district court judge grants preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of
@usedgov
rule that cuts off coronavirus relief to undocumented, international students.
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Interesting read in which
@MattBruenig
takes seriously the complaint that cancelling student debt is unfair to people who have already paid off their loans.
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The end of Chevron deference was welcomed by many immigration attorneys, who say it could be a boon to plaintiffs challenging visa decisions by federal agencies
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Cardona says that 99% denial rate for Public Service Loan Forgiveness is "unacceptable." Says he's given
@FAFSA
chief Richard Cordray a message to "fix this"
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Senate CRA resolution to block Betsy DeVos's tightening of student debt forgiveness regulations passes 53-42 with 10 Republican votes. That's an embarrassing outcome for DeVos even if White House follows through on veto threats.
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Immigration advocates and litigators say the process was far from perfect, but the US is on track to issue a record number of employment-based green cards before a Sept. 30 deadline
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A DACA fix is just one of several priorities immigration advocates are pushing as the legislative session winds down,
@ellengilmer
reports. Congress has yet to reach deals on Afghan evacuees, a farmworker bill, or green cards for tech workers
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