Blog: Here’s what we know about ‘extreme vetting’

Apr 5, 2017
The president has talked a lot about making it harder for people to obtain visas. But what exactly does that look like?
Triple the number of applicants applied for the H1-B visa program last year. Chances of getting your application picked were only about one in three.
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As farmworkers grow scarce, wages are on the rise

Mar 23, 2017
But that's not attracting native-born American laborers to the fields yet, L.A. Times reporter says.
California farmers face such tight labor pools that some are replacing grapes with almonds, which require much less human labor.
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ICE union to Trump: Come drain our swamp

Mar 23, 2017
Homeland Security is facing a slew of recruiting challenges, including a high rate of polygraph failure, pay parity and a lack of morale, according to employee representatives.
US President Donald Trump chats with reporters on board Air Force One before departing from Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, bound for Palm Beach, Florida on February 3, 2017. 

 
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Employers struggle to make H-1B visas work

Mar 23, 2017
The system is expensive and complicated.
Triple the number of applicants applied for the H1-B visa program last year. Chances of getting your application picked were only about one in three.
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Erie depends on immigrants to boost its economy

Mar 22, 2017
Erie's population is declining, and it's relying on immigrants for growth, and the immigrants are relying on each other.
Saad Albidhawi, a long-time mechanic, is part of the reason there are now more than 10 Iraqi-owned auto shops in Erie.
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What it's like to live and work in H-1B visa limbo

Mar 22, 2017
The program allows employers to hire skilled foreign workers through a lottery system. The next step can take years.
A woman holds an American flag during a naturalization oath ceremony  in Boston.
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Emory University chooses to be a 'safe harbor' instead of 'sanctuary'

Mar 21, 2017
Students protest the school's decision, but the careful language may keep it from losing state funding.
Students, staff and faculty members walked out in protest and gathered in front of this administrative building at Emory University in February to pressure the university's new president Dr. Claire Sterk to label the university as a "sanctuary campus."
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What will Trump’s border wall look like?

Mar 20, 2017
It must be 'aesthetically pleasing.'
 A steel wall separates Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, from a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Nogales, Arizona. 
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A federal judge has blocked Trump's second travel ban

Mar 15, 2017
A Hawaii judge has blocked the revised order from tomorrow's nationwide roll out.
President Donald Trump attends a meeting about healthcare in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, DC, on March 13, 2017.
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Local law enforcement in California work with ICE in different ways

Mar 15, 2017
At the Fresno County Jail, immigration agents have access to the jail’s database.
Sgt. Elisa Magallanes books a newly arrested man at the Fresno County Jail.
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