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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Sat Dec 22, 2018, 09:00 AM Dec 2018

Trump's crackdown hits legal immigrants

The president's posture on illegal immigration has had a chilling effect on legal migrant flows.

By TED HESSON 12/22/2018 07:33 AM EST

President Donald Trump’s immigration legacy so far isn’t a border wall or fewer migrants crossing the border illegally into the U.S.

It's a reduction in how many people enter the U.S. by entirely legal means.

State Department data show visa issuances have slumped under Trump, according to government information reviewed and analyzed by POLITICO. The number of visas for temporary stays in the U.S. fell 13 percent in fiscal year 2018 compared with two years earlier, the last full year under President Barack Obama. Immigrant visas, which allow a person to apply for a green card, dropped by 14 percent over the same period. And for people with visas, such as H-1B visas for skilled foreign workers, there is less certainty about whether they will be renewed because of changes in policy.

“That’s been a bit of a nightmare,” said Sarah Pitney, an immigration attorney with the D.C.-based firm Benach Collopy. “A lot of employers have just started looking for options other than H-1Bs, because H-1Bs have been such an issue in the last year or so.”

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1. Rupert Murdoch A legal immigrant who should be stripped of citizenship?

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Sat Dec 22, 2018, 10:39 AM

Dec 2018

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1985-09-05-8502280157-story.html

1985: The beginning of one man's campaign against US democracy and the Truth

An Australian media baron on Wednesday swore an oath of allegiance to the United States and became Citizen Murdoch.

Rupert Murdoch, 54, became a U.S. citizen along with 185 other people at a 15-minute ceremony at U.S. District Court in New York. By losing his alien status here, Murdoch moved closer to gaining control over a major group of independent television stations.

In May, Murdoch disclosed plans to become a U.S. citizen as part of his planned $1.55 billion acquisition of six TV stations, including WFLD in Chicago and WNEW in New York City, from Metromedia Inc.

As a foreigner, Murdoch would have been prevented by the Federal Communications Commission from acquiring more than a 20 percent interest (or more than a 25 percent stake through a foreign holding company) in a U.S. broadcasting company.

The FCC is considering Murdoch`s application for the Metromedia TV station licenses. To comply with the FCC`s limits on media cross-ownership, Murdoch said he plans to divest his Chicago Sun-Times and New York Post newspapers.

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