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9 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Nearly all green cards are already awarded to those on temporary work visas, and the bill doesn't shrink the number of green cards available. It awards the same number in a different manner. This tweet is just confused.
1) Indians work in many industries including medicine, finance, education, energy, and much else. 2) The "national interest" is stopping discrimination based on birthplace, so talented people know that if they come to America, they'll get a fair deal.
Also, I have no idea whether the underlying report prompting these tweets is true. But there's no active spending legislation for consideration in the House. Image
House Democrats recently introduced a continuing resolution, which doesn't include the bill. Image

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11 Dec
Here is my attempt visualize the harm President Trump has caused not in terms of policies, but in terms of people, immigrants not coming to America, not receiving permanent residence, or being denied employment authorization and status.
cato.org/blog/visualizi…
Immigrant visa issuances were down 83 percent in October 2020 compared to FY 2016. Even before the pandemic, permanent immigration from abroad had declined by about 24 percent.
One reason for fewer issuances: USCIS started denying petitions for immigrant visas at a much higher rate. The denial rate basically doubled from about 8 percent in FY 2016 to 16 percent in the third quarter of FY 2020.
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20 Nov
"The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) released new data showing that the green card backlog for employment-based immigrants in April 2020 surpassed 1.2 million applicants—the highest number ever." cato.org/blog/employmen…
The backlog increased from November 2019 to April 2020 at three times the monthly pace that it increased from April 2018 to November 2019. Image
Most of the increase in the EB backlog occurred in the EB-2 and EB-3 employer-sponsored categories for immigrants with a bachelor's or master's degrees. Image
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11 Nov
Out today, I provide an overview of suggested reforms for the major components of the immigration system. I provide detailed citations for how to make the reforms to the statutes. Congress shouldn't wait to take up reform next year cato.org/publications/e…
Here is my list of 52 specific ideas to vastly improve America's immigration system. Of course, much more should and can be done. But these are my priorities.
Congress should start with the premise that the U.S. permanent immigration system is very restrictive compared both with other wealthy countries among which it ranks in the bottom third for foreign born share and compared to its own history.
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6 Nov
During the transition, do you think DHS officials are going to say things like: "Here's how we're still separating families, where we are spending the money for imprisoned immigrant food and health care, how we're blocking asylum applicants, how we pick journalists to target...
"Here's how we target Muslims for additional screening, put Yemenis in 'administrative processing' to drop their visa apps, oh, we gave all premium processing fees to this contractor for this failed online system. Oh, and we secretly changed the H-1B standards over here...
"Look, here's the dumpster for initial DACA apps that we dumped in violation of SCOTUS. Let me show you how we arrest "illegals" living in homes in CA w/o any evidence they crossed the border (just call them human smugglers!), here's how we invent evidence of 'gang ties"...
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5 Nov
On his main issue, Trump actually lost ground *among his own party*, setting aside the backlash it's caused among Democrats. Nativists' arguments failed spectacularly, far more than I could have expected these past 4 years pewresearch.org/politics/2018/…
Remember when hating refugees was a main campaign platform for Trump in 2016. He's had 4 years to sell it, and it's failed big time! pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019…
They are stealing jobs? They are killing Americans? Pluralities or majorities of Republicans didn't buy it even at the height of this guy's presidency. A total whiff by NumbersUSA-CIS-FAIR & Trump pewresearch.org/politics/2018/…
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30 Oct
Absolutely stunning OIG report finding that Nielsen instructed ports to turn away asylum seekers despite capacity to accept. I have repeatedly argued that her statements to Congress were false about this, but now we know she LIED oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/…
My first post on the subject: cato.org/blog/obama-tri…
My latest post using FOIA-ed data to show that they had far more capacity to process: cato.org/blog/officials…
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