Immigration Blog

The Republican chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, Rodney Frelinghuysen, siding with the Democrats on his committee and ruling against a roll call vote on the issue, gave a green light to DACA aliens (slightly legalized by Obama fiat) seeking jobs in the government. That includes Congress itself.

Speaking about summer jobs in Maine, at a time when no additional H-2B foreign workers are available, the executive director of a Maine Chamber of Commerce is quoted as saying:

The shortage is so acute ... other companies have gone so far as to offer higher wages to entice locals. (Emphasis added.)

Over the weekend, the governor of Jalisco, Mexico, noted that his state is prepared to welcome individuals from countries like India that live in the United States and are uncertain of the future of H-1B visas.

On Tuesday, the mayor of Santiago in the Dominican Republic, Abel Martínez Durán, confirmed that he is seeking to approve a resolution that declares illegal aliens in his municipality as "persona non grata".

The Supreme Court granted the government's requests to stay two circuit court orders that enjoined those provisions, "to the extent the injunctions prevent[ed] enforcement of [section 2(c) of EO-2] with respect to foreign nationals who lack any bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States." It left the "injunctions entered by the lower courts in place" however "with respect to respondents and those similarly situated."

The person asking if that Russian lawyer who met with Donald Trump Jr. was an illegal alien at the time is not some lefty Democrat, it is Sen. Chuck Grassley, (R-Iowa), the chair of the Senate's Judiciary Committee.

The senator, of course, used more restrained language, but in his letter to Secretaries Kelly (DHS) and Tillerson (State), there was this text:

When I think of H-1B abuse, I first think of IBM. For the past decade, IBM has been transforming itself into an H-1B bodyshop and now has more employees in India than in the United States.

A few days ago, the attorney general of the United States and his deputy visited the terrorist detention center embedded within the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. According to a Department of Justice (DOJ) spokesman, they went to familiarize themselves with the operation there — now down to just a ghost of its former self, after multiple releases during the Obama administration.

On July 5, Nemias Garcia-Velasco, a citizen of Mexico residing illegally in the United States in the Omaha, Neb., area, crashed into a guard rail on an interstate highway, from which his work van plunged down an embankment directly into a massive concrete overpass pillar. The crash left one of his two passengers dead (see here and here).

The so-called  "travel ban" took effect this June 29 at 8 pm ET, three days after the Supreme Court ruled (partly) in favor of President Trump's executive order, "Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States" (EO-2).