The H-1B has huge problems and high-skilled immigration supporters shouldn’t pretend it doesn’t. It’s been used far too much for middling talent, wage arbitrage, and downright fraud. But that doesn’t make the $100k fee a good solution: 1. Outsourcers can just avoid the fee by

Yep, measuring priorities is hard! We know voters say many things in any given list are a problem (just like they say they want to raise all kinds of spending). That's why it's important to specify relevant tradeoffs. The right Q is what issues are a bigger priority than others.

The new Trump H-1B rule just dropped! It prioritizes DOL "Wage Levels," not real wages. DOL thinks an experienced acupuncturist making $40k is a higher "Wage Level" than an early-career AI scientist making $280k. That means more visas for outsourcers, fewer for real talent.

If this is true, it would be terrible and would reduce the wages of H-1B holders by deterring their ability to switch employers w/o being subject to the $100,000 entry fee.

Finally read the full Gold Card EO and wow is it wild. Under this EO, any person who pays $1 million is deemed a person of "exceptional business ability" and therefore qualified for an EB-2 visa. Does anything better sum up the Trump ethos than "all rich people are exceptional"?

The Dept. of Homeland Security has a new statement out about deportations. They're saying they have deported ~400,000 people since Trump took office That puts them on pace to deport ~600,000 people in one year they say I suspect that includes people removed by both ICE and...

El Rinconcito Número Dos is my favorite pupuseria in DC proper, so please keep the support going. My friends have on good authority that I ordered 10 pupusas from the restaurant this past weekend, so I'm doing my part to support them as a 🇸🇻🇺🇸

In a new piece for IFP, I use FOIA data from USCIS to simulate what the new H-1B proposal would actually do: -Winners: outsourcers, who'd gain 8% more H1Bs -Losers: students from US universities, who'd get 7% fewer H1Bs – Average wages would increase a measly +3%

Universities power local economies. Policies that drive graduates away risk draining jobs and weakening those economic engines.

We're in an official Government shutdown. Although, many agencies and services will be affected, not so within the immigration bureaucracy. * USCIS will not be affected coz they are fee-funded, so expect the same awful services to continue * ICE and CBP crackdown on immigrants

Scoop: USCIS intends to issue additional clarifying guidance on its website in the coming days, including instructions on how the $100,000 H-1B proclamation will be implemented and how to request an exception from the fee. Per email I received from USCIS.

Immigration Twitter upon reading this

Welp, looks like the DC layoff sweep has hit me five years after my last one. Looking for leads here and internationally if folks have ideas

$38B Market Cap today and that's just my first company — undocumented immigrants can have some pretty productive kids.

The Supreme Court passed on a challenge to employment eligibility for spouses of H-1B visa holders. The DC Circuit had upheld the lawfulness of work permits for H-4 dependent visa holders last year. #H1Bvisa #immigration #tech news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-re…

Belize has signed a 3rd Safe Country Agreement (subject to approval by Belize senate) to accept asylum seekers. No substantive details but appears to be mostly for central Americans. search.app/cDCZT

After 8 years, Rubio's State Department has stopped publishing its monthly report (started by Trump 1.0) on the number of visa issuances each month by country and category. The first Trump admin was good on data transparency. This admin is the absolute worst!