Seems like Trump and Stephen Miller’s anti-immigration attacks are getting thrown out even BEFOFE the two off them come off the federal government payroll…
The Biden admin will rolling back some of their restrictions from day one….
A federal judge in California on Tuesday slapped down the Trump administration’s latest effort to limit legal immigration, vacating new restrictions on H-1B high-skilled foreign worker visas that were expected to affect a third of applications to the program.
U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White found that the administration didn’t take enough time to consider the changes or seek public comment on the rules, which would have made it harder for businesses to obtain high-skilled foreign employees and would raise the wages H-1B workers must be paid….
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The effort was the latest extension of Trump’s April 2017 “Buy American, Hire American” executive order, which called for federal agencies to vigorously enforce immigration laws to protect U.S. workers.
The administration argued that the current system allowed for “potential abuses” that in some cases “undermine the wages and job opportunities of U.S. workers.”
The restrictions at issue targeted H-1B visas, H-1B1 and E-3 visas, which are frequently used by the technology industry to temporarily employ foreign workers with advanced degrees. The changes were issued in two rules by the Department of Labor and the Department of Homeland Security in October….