“Indian professionals grabbed one-third of the H-1B visas in 2009, even as there was a slump for the most coveted US work visas in the past two years.
For the second year in running, there appears to be a low key response to the US HS-1B visas with only 24,200 applications being received until July 2.
The [...]
“Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed a bill Friday that requires police in her state to determine whether a person is in the United States legally, which critics say will foster racial profiling but supporters say will crack down on illegal immigration.
The bill requires immigrants to carry their alien registration documents at all times and requires [...]
What the TSA needs now is a good makeover; hopefully Major General (retired) Robert Harding is going to be the one to bring in the new broom . TSA has languished for years under a cloud of mistakes, errors and just plain carelessness with respect to their public image and their overall effectiveness. Most recently, [...]
“Just when I thought I was out of the Transportation Security Administration business for a few columns, they pull me back in.
Did you hear about the Camden cop whose disabled son wasn’t allowed to pass through airport security unless he took off his leg braces?
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(Daniel Rubin: Another case of TSA overkill | Philadelphia Inquirer | [...]
“In the wake of the failed Christmas Day airplane bombing and the killing a few days later of seven CIA operatives in Afghanistan, Washington is, as it was after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, obsessed with ‘dots’ — and our inability to connect them. ‘The U.S. government had sufficient information to have uncovered this plot [...]
“The Department of Homeland Security issued but recalled a 2007 intelligence analysis about the Nation of Islam after deciding the document dealing with the black Muslim group broke rules on intelligence activity in the United States, officials said Wednesday.
Internal documents revealed that intelligence chiefs found analysts had ‘unintentionally and inadvertently’ violated rules governing the collection, [...]
“Immigration agents arrested 280 people in California in their biggest push yet to round up suspected illegal immigrants with criminal records in local communities, authorities said Friday.
More than 400 agents and local law enforcement officers fanned out across the state in the three-day search led by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
‘These are not people who we [...]
“Directives issued Thursday by federal officials advise holiday travelers to have their papers in order, suggest what kind of shoes to wear and encourage those about to travel to get seasonal and H1N1 flu shots.
The federal agencies also guide travelers on how to cough and sneeze.
The U.S. Homeland Security Department, Transportation Security Administration, Centers for [...]
“Immigration enforcement officials said Thursday that they were expanding a program for auditing companies that might have hired illegal immigrants and had notified 1,000 companies this week that they would have to undergo such a review.”
(Source: ICE to Audit 1,000 More Companies in Immigration Crackdown – NYTimes.com)
“Two people — one in New Hampshire and a second in New York — have died, 16 have been hospitalized and 28 have been sickened in an outbreak of E. coli that may be linked to ground beef distributed on the East Coast, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says.
As of October 28, there [...]