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David North

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Parsing Immigration Policy2 episodes

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Parsing Immigration Policy
Parsing Immigration Policy

Buying a Green Card Just Got More Expensive

Summary Congress created an investment visa program, the EB-5 Program, in 1990 to stimulate the U.S. economy, specifically rural and depressed areas, through job creation and capital investment by foreign investors. The loopholes in the program, which sells a pathway to U.S. citizenship to wealthy foreigners and their families who invest in job-creation projects, quickly allowed the program to become riddled with fraud and to stray from what Congress envisioned. After an eight-month lapse, Congress has brought the program back to life through a provision in a funding bill – but it returns with many reforms. George Fishman, the Center’s senior legal fellow and former DHS Deputy General Counsel, who was closely involved in EB-5 reform efforts, said, “These reforms bring to a close a seven-plus-year bi-partisan reform effort led by both the Democrat and Republican chairmen and ranking members of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees.
Host:
Mark Krikorian
Organization
Center for Immigration Studies

July 2021

Parsing Immigration Policy
Parsing Immigration Policy

Six Decades of Researching Immigration

Summary Few individuals can boast immigration research experience spanning more than six decades. David North, a Senior Fellow at the Center, is one of them. North was introduced to immigration policy during the Eisenhower administration, when he first encountered the migrant farmworker issue as an employee of the state of New Jersey. He expanded that involvement as a political appointee in the Kennedy administration Labor Department and has continued working on the issue through to present day. In this week’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy, North discusses with Mark Krikorian, the Center’s executive director and the podcast’s host, the changes he has seen in U.S. immigration policy over the decades. Both as a government official and a researcher, he has focused on refugees, H-2B and H-1B temporary worker programs, agriculture worker issues, and other parts of the immigration system, and has examined these programs' impact on American worker opportunities and wages.
Host:
Mark Krikorian
Organization
Center for Immigration Studies