The Forum Daily | Tuesday August 1, 2023
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THE FORUM DAILY

In the tech race, the United States is confronted with a distinct
challenge: how to keep an edge compared with rivals such as China, Japan
and Germany. 

Meeting that challenge will mean revamping how we attract the
international pool of tech talent, Andy Semotiuk writes in Forbes
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The current flaws and delays in the U.S. immigration system,
particularly for STEM professionals, are hindrances. 

Meanwhile, Canada started a new program
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last month to attract professional workers in the U.S. on H-1B visas -
and filled the 10,000 slots almost immediately. But as Bloomberg
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editors note, the U.S. should look in the mirror rather than blame
Canada. 

"This talent-poaching scheme is a model of creative policymaking, and
should be causing alarm in Washington," they write. " ... President Joe
Biden should call on Congress to admit more immigrants with the
skills businesses
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and grant them permanent residence more readily once they're
here. Canada is teaching the U.S. a useful lesson." 

California isn't waiting. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has allocated $2
million for a Global Entrepreneur in Residence (GEIR) program at the
University of California to attract and retain international talent and
bolster high-tech industries, Vivek Wadhwa and Alex Salkever write in
Fortune
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Welcome to Tuesday's edition of The Forum Daily. I'm Dan Gordon, the
Forum's strategic communications VP, and the great Forum Daily team
also includes Karime Puga, Clara Villatoro, Christian Blair and Ashling
Lee. If you have a story to share from your own community, please send
it to me at [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>. 

SUPPORT FOR AFGHANS - With the second anniversary of the fall of
Kabul in two weeks, advocates keep pushing for certainty for Afghan
allies, Maya Rao reports in the Minneapolis Star Tribune
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Amy Klobuchar (D-Minnesota) reintroduced the Afghan Adjustment Act
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last month with 11 bipartisan co-sponsors. One is Sen. Jerry Moran
(R-Kansas), and advocates in his state support passage too, as AJ Dome
reports in the Kansas Reflector
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in an op-ed for the Idaho Capital Sun,
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Republican former state Attorney General Jim Jones describes how this
bill would help Afghans, including former Afghan military pilots who
have resettled in Idaho.  

FASTER TRACK - More than 50 bipartisan lawmakers are urging the Biden
administration to allow applicants stuck in green card backlogs to apply
for permanent residency earlier, reports Andrew Kreighbaum of Bloomberg
Law
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it won't speed up the green card process, early filing would offer
temporary relief with employment and travel flexibility. Administrative
delays have caused over 194,000 employment-based green cards to go
unused in the past two decades.  

NEW

**EFFORTS** - Cape and Islands (Massachusetts) District Attorney
Robert Galibois has endorsed a request to investigate Florida Gov. Ron
DeSantis (R) on the transportation of migrants to Martha's Vineyard
last year, reports Ivy Scott of the Boston Globe
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In a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, Galibois said he
supports a request from a Texas sheriff and California officials
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"to open federal criminal and civil investigations into these incidents"
and said he plans to start his own inquiry too. 

DIGNITY ACT - If Republicans and Democrats in Congress want to be part
of the solution to a dysfunctional immigration process, they should take
a serious look at the Dignity Act, per the Dallas Morning News
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editorial board. "Most of all, [the bill] acknowledges that a
functioning immigration policy must secure borders and provide legal
opportunities for families to seek refuge in the United States," the
board writes. 

Thanks for reading, 

Dan

 

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