Wednesday, August 27, 2014
WSJ: Executive Immigration Action May Include Legal Reforms
On September 18, 2014 the Wall
Street Journal reported that after Labor Day President Obama may announce
executive actions to give "safe harbor and work permits to qualifying
illegal immigrants". Business leaders and interest groups who have been
meeting with the White House throughout the Summer have requested overhaul
measures for the legal workforce. One proposal would exclude dependents from
the numerical cap on employment-based green cards, which is now 140,000 a year.
The change could, in effect, double the number of green cards available. A
second proposal would "recapture" unused employment green cards from
previous years, which could produce more than 200,000 new green cards.