To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to reform asylum procedures, and for other purposes.
NumbersUSA's Position:
SupportTo amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to reform asylum procedures, and for other purposes.
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H.R. 3856
NumbersUSA's Position:
SupportTo amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to reform asylum procedures related to safe third countries, and for other purposes.
H.R. 3857
NumbersUSA's Position:
SupportTo amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to reform asylum procedures related to the filing of frivolous applications, and for other purposes.
H.R. 3859
NumbersUSA's Position:
SupportTo authorize the Attorney General to appoint 100 additional immigration judges, and for other purposes.
We regard all U.S. citizens -- foreign-born & natives -- the same. THIS is home.
Shouts such as "concentration camps" and "holocaust" from one side and "send her back" on another side make it impossible to have the civil conversation that a public policy like immigration must have if practical and just solutions are to be adopted.
I urge all who seek a restored order at the border and a reduction in immigration numbers to avoid even a hint of nativism in response to the challenges at hand.
H-1B Visa Clampdown Continues
The number of H-1B visa petitions approved by USCIS has continued to fall in fiscal year 2019, according to data released by the agency Tuesday . So far this fiscal year, only 83.9 percent of the petitions for temporary skilled workers under the H-1B visa program have been initially approved, a drop from 84.5 percent in FY 2018 and 92.6 percent in FY 2017. At the same time, 39.6 percent of H-1B petitions received so-called "requests for evidence" so far this fiscal year, up from 38 percent last fiscal year and 21.4 percent in FY 2017.
Border Zone Reasonableness Restoration Act of 2019
NumbersUSA's Position:
OpposeTo provide oversight of the border zone in which Federal agents may conduct vehicle checkpoints and stops and enter private land without a warrant, and to make technical corrections.
S. 2162
NumbersUSA's Position:
SupportA bill to require the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection to annually hire at least 600 new Border Patrol agents, to report quarterly to Congress on the status of the Border Patrol workforce, and to conduct a comprehensive staffing analysis.
S. 2176
NumbersUSA's Position:
OpposeA bill to require the Secretary of Homeland Security to designate Haiti for temporary protected status.
