Wednesday last week was a milestone down the dark road we re traveling on immigration.
President Trump last year put freezes on both immigrant and nonimmigrant admissions where they would impact American workers.
Just to remind you, the word immigrant, properly used, refers to people entering the U.S.A. for permanent settlement, with the right to apply for full citizenship after five years. Nonimmigrant is all other legal entrants: tourists, students, business exchanges, and guest workers like the H-1B. (Pictured right: my own H-1B visa from the 90s. )
Joe Biden killed the freeze on immigrants proper with one of his early executive actions, but the freeze on nonimmigrants like the H-1Bs was left in place. Just last December Trump had extended that to March 31st this Wednesday. For the freeze to continue, Joe Biden would have had to extend it. He didn t, of course. [
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