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What's Happening at the Center
In his recent piece ([link removed]) , Mark Krikorian explains that the president renewed and broadened the immigration suspension originally issued in April, extending the restrictions to the end of the year. The updated measure keeps in place the limited suspension of immigrant visas, but also suspends a number of foreign work-visa programs. With 20 million unemployed and the jobless rate still more than triple what it was before the virus (and quadruple for immigrants), this action seems like an obvious one. But despite the dismal shape of the economy, industry lobbyists continue to push for the importation of more foreign labor. The ban pushes back against this effort. Many of the pro-worker measures listed in the Center's scorecard ([link removed]) remain to be enacted but given the powerful moneyed interests on the other side of the issue — and the many
influential administration officials who share those views — the president's announcement was a real win for American workers.

Report
Stopping Chinese Infiltration of U.S. Educational and Research Institutions ([link removed])
Significant steps taken against PRC's proxy spies, but more can be done ([link removed])
By Dan Cadman

Foreign students and exchange scholars from certain countries — predominantly, but not exclusively, the People's Republic of China — represent an extraordinary risk to the United States through their extracurricular espionage activities.

It is becoming clear that the federal government has finally started to focus in earnest on the danger posed by China's pervasive espionage efforts, particularly in and around U.S. universities and research institutions.
Featured Posts

New Book Asks If the GOP Has a Future: Will the upcoming companion book on Democrats address mass immigration? ([link removed])

By Jerry Kammer
If the Democrats fail to return to defending the interests of working Americans who in recent decades have suffered the downside of mass immigration, globalization, and automation, they may antagonize and frighten just enough voters to ensure their own defeat once again.

Imagine the OPT Program as Amnesty for the Well-Educated ([link removed])
By David North
In a highly creative manipulation of the Option Practical Training program, UCLA seems to have gotten away with reclassifying its Masters of Business Administration programs as being in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), thus enabling former foreign students to pretend to still be students for visa purposes and thus work in the U.S. for two extra years (and avoid paying payroll taxes).

DHS Changes Rules for Asylum Work Permit Applications: Would deter frivolous applications and rubber-stamping; more changes to follow ([link removed])
By Andrew R. Arthur
Elimination of the current 30-day deadline for USCIS to adjudicate asylum work permit applications will discourage aliens from making frivolous asylum claims in hopes of living and working here indefinitely.

Mounting Evidence Points to Covid Refugees from Mexico as a Major Factor in Border-State Spikes ([link removed])
By Todd Bensman
Evidence continues to mount that spikes in Covid cases in U.S. border states are due to successive waves of infected people fleeing Mexico's dysfunctional and overwhelmed hospitals to get American medical care at least as much, if not more than, to the re-opening of those states' economies.

More Blog Posts
* DHS Further Tightens Asylum Work-Permit Rules: Removing incentives for frivolous asylum filings, and aligning employment and asylum eligibility ([link removed])
* Yet Another Chinese Citizen Arrested for EB-5 Fraud in California ([link removed])
* DHS/DOJ: Raise Credible Fear Standard for Statutory Withholding and CAT: A familiar burden of proof, and an overdue change ([link removed])
* SCOTUS: Judicial Review Limitation for Expedited Removal Does Not Violate the Constitution: Avoiding a calamitous result, and supporting Congress’s elimination of the 'entry doctrine' ([link removed])
* For the First Time, DHS Estimates the Total Size of the H-1B population: Finally a number reflecting the stock, not just the flow — but it seems low ([link removed])
* EB-5 (Immigrant Investor) Filings Drop to Seven a Month vs. 10,000 a Year ([link removed])
* How Will the New Presidential Proclamation Impact Different Foreign Worker Programs? ([link removed])
* Trump Takes Steps to Protect American Workers ([link removed])
* USCIS Has 5.5 Million Applications Pending, Up 2.2 Million from 2015 ([link removed])

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The Center for Immigration Studies hosted a livestream panel discussing the proclamation suspending entry of immigrants who present risk to the U.S. labor market during the economic recovery following the COVID-19 outbreak.

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