Miriam Jordan, New York Times, June 19, 2024
“President Biden on Tuesday introduced an initiative that could possibly be life-changing for a whole lot of hundreds of undocumented younger adults, referred to as Dreamers, whose capacity to stay and work in the USA has lengthy been tied to a brief immigration program that has been on life assist. The brand new directive will allow many beneficiaries of an Obama-era program referred to as DACA, or Deferred Motion for Childhood Arrivals, to swiftly obtain employer-sponsored work visas for the primary time. Finally, the younger immigrants might apply via their employers for inexperienced playing cards, or everlasting lawful residency. … “It’s a small step inside a posh immigration system that may easy the best way for a lot of people to get a piece visa extra rapidly,” mentioned Stephen Yale-Loehr, an immigration scholar at Cornell Regulation College. … The idea of rushing up regular employment visas for Dreamers surfaced two years in the past when Dan Berger, an immigration fellow at Cornell Regulation College, floated the thought amongst colleagues. He and others despatched a memo to the White Home in late 2022 outlining an thought they mentioned would profit each Dreamers and corporations that wished to rent them. Mr. Berger examined the waters by serving to some employers, together with two hospitals, sponsor work visas for DACA recipients beneath the previous guidelines. One in all them was granted a waiver in simply two weeks, whereas one other continues to be ready for the visa, greater than seven months later. “The administration was in a position to see that this might work however that it wanted to take motion to streamline the method,” mentioned Mr. Berger. “That occurred right this moment.” “
