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6 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
One small thing I would like to see done very soon. Take the immigration sections of the Heroes Act (Covid relief) passed in May and separately pass that bill since McConnell stripped out that part. Here's my summary - visalaw.com/siskind-summar…
And add the Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act. There is plenty more to do but those bills are specifically Covid-related and need immediate passage.
The HWRA is jointly sponsored by Senators Perdue and Durbin. It has 40ish co-sponsors almost equally divided between Ds and Rs. It provides green cards for 40K doctors and nurses and it won't be filibustered.
Since kids/spouses not counted, it will actually take about 80k out of the backlog and speed things up for everyone else.

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As predicted, the China provision is the main sticking point preventing possible inclusion of 1044/386 per country caps language in the omnibus bill. Several dozen advocacy organizations, including a number of Asian American groups, have come out opposing that language. 1
They are not taking a position on country caps - just the offensive paragraph. I know some groups supporting 1044 are trying to say the anti-Chinese language is symbolic & won't change things. Unfortunately, that's not true. 2
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2 Dec 20
Happy that S. 386 has finally passed in the Senate and we're a step closer to ending nationality discrimination in the visa allocation system. 1
However, there are significant differences with the House version that need to be negotiated (including a China provision that is going to be viewed as controversial unless clarified). 2
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29 Oct 20
Everyone who cares about immigration law and policy needs to read @crampell's superb piece. - Trump didn’t build his border wall with steel. He built it out of paper. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
It is not an easy read. But it does the job of laying out just how broad the problems created by Trump are. In order to really fix things, it's necessary to thoroughly understand what has happened. If Team Biden wins, they have a hell of a lot of work to do.
The immigration advocacy community has got to fight just as hard to get a new Administration to comprehensively address the problems. Some of that will be to address the hundreds of changes at the agencies and work on building a pro-immigration culture at the various agencies.
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27 Oct 20
About to listen to arguments in the 4th Circuit in HIAS v. Trump, an appeal by DOJ of a court order preventing the implementation of Trump's executive order forbidding refugee resettlement unless states and localities have both opted in to the refugee resettlement program.
I wonder if the DOJ lawyers on all these horrible anti-refugee cases really are ok with the evil impact of the stuff they're defending or they are just treating it as doing their job?
A judge is pointing out that the order has an absurd unworkable construct. That doesn't sound good for the government.
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10 Oct 20
I learned today about a disturbing side effect of the new DOL H-1B wage rules. And it could have a dramatic effect on the American health care system I hadn't previously considered. 1
Because physician salaries are now so elevated under the new rule, DOL has shifted to a national default wage for all H-1B doctors and those seeking green cards - $208,000 per year. All specialties. All geographic areas. Doesn't matter if you're right out of med school or not. 2
This plays out in some crazy ways. Medical residents for example. In teaching hospitals across the country, residents are typically paid $50K to $70K per year. The new reg requires they be paid $208K. 3
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