• MEDIA: Lawmakers Urge More Time for Laid-Off H-1B Workers to Find Jobs

    From John D Groenveld@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jan 7 11:17:06 2023
    Michael Bloomberg's guest blogger, Andrew Kreighbaum, on whether
    Donald Trump regrets taking Jared Kushner's advice to downplay the
    National Question on the campaign stump against Joe Biden and Kamala
    Harris: <URL:https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/lawmakers-urge-more-time-for-laid-off-h-1b-workers-to-find-jobs>
    | The Department of Homeland Security should extend the grace period
    | for foreign workers who were affected by a recent wave of tech
    | industry layoffs to find new sponsors for their employment-based
    | visas, two lawmakers representing Silicon Valley said.
    |
    | Reps. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) and Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) in a letter
    | Thursday asked DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and US Citizenship
    | and Immigration Services Director Ur Jaddou to increase the deadline
    | from the current 60 days to 120 days. Workers on H-1B specialty
    | occupation visas typically must find new employers within that
    | window or leave the country.

    Does Kellyanne Conway fear Ron DeSantis will outflank Trump from the
    right on the National Question by inviting the likes of Mike Emmons
    onto Ken Griffin and Lachlan Murdoch's campaign stage?

    John
    groenveld@acm.org
    --
    "Who wants to tell @NormEisen that this happened on Biden's watch?
    And DHS' ongoing obstinance related to the internal J6 investigation
    is not Trump's fault? So DOJ gets the Secret Service cell phones and
    DHS OIG inquiry eventually goes poof-- https://t.co/6L7hDygaku" -
    Julie Kelly
    <URL:https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1556624578411126784>

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