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Big Tech and its allies are eager to work with the incoming Biden administration to reverse President Trump's stricter immigration policies that they complain made it difficult to employ visa holders.
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President Trump signed an executive order on Monday preventing federal agencies from laying off U.S. citizens and green card holders and replacing them with temporary foreign workers. The order will increase oversight of federal agencies’ use of employees on H1-B visas, which allow foreign citizens to work at American companies without providing a path to …
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American tech firms condemned the Trump administration’s decision to extend a pause on high-skilled H-1B visas, which are frequently used in the industry, warning that it “puts American’s global competitiveness at risk.” The new restrictions, signed by Trump in an executive order on Monday, go into effect on Wednesday and will last through the end …
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President Trump will extend visa restrictions on some foreign workers until the end of this year, Politico reported on Monday. Trump implemented a 60-day “pause” on applications for permanent residencies in April, but with broad exemptions for workers applying for temporary residencies, including 85,000 workers on H1-B visas. That order will now be expanded somewhat to …
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A group of GOP Senators is asking President Trump to ramp up his recent “pause” on immigration to include a prohibition on guest-worker visas, citing rising levels of American unemployment amid the coronavirus pandemic. Senator Tom Cotton (R., Ark.), joined by Senators Josh Hawley (R., Mo.), Ted Cruz (R., Texas), and Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) …