In permitting frivolous and marginal cases to glut the refugee and asylum system, government officials obscure those that merit expeditious handling. Asia Bibi's is just such a case.
The Optional Practical Training program enables foreign students who have graduated from U.S. schools to work but pretend to remain students, thus exempting them and their employers from the payroll tax. In 2017 alone, for graduates of a single visa mill in California, this subsidy amounted to an estimated $48 million.
The Department of Justice needs to directly challenge the legality of nationwide injunctions in its appeal of the recent ruling on the new asylum rules.
The H-1B program now has an interesting employer-participant – a university that has concluded a criminal plea agreement with a U.S. Attorney regarding its abuse of that program.
What good does it do if a judge's ruling is ultimately reversed if the reversal can't undo the harm that was wrought by the injunction in the first place?
Kanishk Tharoor is a writer whose work appears in The Atlantic and the Guardian. In addition to his writing, he hosts the "Museum of Lost Objects" podcast for the BBC, which highlights the fascinating stories of the historical artifacts destroyed by ISIS during their rampage through Syria and Iraq.
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Yesterday's ruling regarding asylum for people who enter the U.S. illegally is an ideal opportunity for the Supreme Court to address the legality of nationwide injunctions by federal district courts.
The simplest way to make the First Step Act a clean bill where immigration enforcement is concerned is to say at the beginning that "none of the sections that follow in this bill apply to incarcerated aliens". What's so hard about that?
