The growing intensity of the US visa approval process has made it more difficult for companies to attract, support and retain foreign talent. However, recruiters are still sourcing talent from abroad at an increasing clip. According to a recent, roughly 30-page, report published by Envoy – the corporate workforce immigration management platform – US corporate […]
View More Visa policies threaten innovation but aren’t stopping hiring abroadCategory: Immigration
With China tariffs delayed, Beijing faces startup dilemma
China is facing a challenging juxtaposition in the coming years: can the government remain in control of business and media while also opening up the country to the knowledge economy? China has uplifted more humans in a shorter period of time than any other country in the history of the planet. That mesmerizing growth engine, […]
View More With China tariffs delayed, Beijing faces startup dilemma‘The Daily Show’ sends Bricky, its border wall mascot, to troll Trump fans in Texas
Once again, The Daily Show has struck comedy gold.
Meet Bricky, a border wall mascot that the show sent to El Paso to talk to fans of President Trump ahead of his Monday night rally in El Paso, Texas. (That’s the one where a Trump backer attacked a BBC cameraman.)
The Trump fans didn’t disappoint — exposing a lack of humanity and a deep ignorance while parroting Trump’s talking points. From pointing out the flaws in plans to make Mexico pay for the border wall to fear-mongering stories about ISIS fighters being part of the caravan, Bricky let the pro-wall folks do the hard work for him. Read more…
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New Mexico’s governor literally runs through walls in response to Trump’s border wall
For all of the various responses to Tuesday night’s State of the Union address by President Trump — including responses from Stacey Abrams, Sen. Bernie Sanders, and Sen. Kamala Harris — perhaps the greatest was delivered by New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham.
Immediately after Trump’s speech concluded on Tuesday night, Grisham tweeted the following video, which showed her taking Trump to task over his immigration stance and love of border walls by literally running through walls.
Amazing. And big props to Gov. Grisham for doing her own stunts.
The video appears to be a campaign commercial from her recent 2018 gubernatorial election. But Gov. Grisham did more on Tuesday to make her point than just pull a Kool-Aid man in a Twitter video. Read more…
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H1-B changes will simplify application process
The federal government yesterday published the final rule for changes to the H1-B visa program, which is one of the primary conduits for technical talent to come and work in the United States. There are two key changes coming with the rule. First, the government will require applicants for an H1-B visa to electronically register […]
View More H1-B changes will simplify application processA simple data analysis disproves the argument for building a border wall
Ken Miller Contributor Ken Miller is an investor, writer and advisor to several technology companies and venture capital firms. Previously he was an executive at PayPal and Intuit, and early advisor to Square. More posts by this contributor As hyper-conservative media surged, Republicans’ trust in news cratered Data shows a downward demographic spiral for Republicans […]
View More A simple data analysis disproves the argument for building a border wallMexican airline trolls Americans with brilliant ad
While the debate over immigration and a border wall between the United States and Mexico has helped grind the U.S. federal government to a halt, Mexico’s national airline, AeroMexico, is trolling Americans with a new ad called “DNA Discounts.”
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Why Silicon Valley needs more visas
Henrique Dubugras Contributor Share on Twitter Henrique Dubugras is the founder Brex, the billion-dollar corporate credit provider for startups. When I hear protesters shout, “Immigrants are welcome here!” at the San Francisco immigration office near my startup’s headquarters, I think about how simple a phrase that is for a topic that is so nuanced, especially […]
View More Why Silicon Valley needs more visasThere’s now a hilarious GoFundMe to build escalators over Trump’s border wall
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One sharp-minded denizen of the world wide web has stepped up to meet the furor over the GoFundMe campaign to fund President Trump’s long-sought border wall with one of his own: funding an escalator that scales that wall.
It’s a brilliant bit of trolling from Boston-based freelance journalist Luke O’Neil whose newsletter, “Hell World,” dives into the intersection of cruelty and stupidity. It perfectly encapsulates something like a GoFundMe campaign to build a border wall for a president who promised Mexico — not taxpayers — would pay for it.
LETS DO THIS COME ON PATRIOTS pic.twitter.com/SuIbL2hyZJ
— luke o’neil (@lukeoneil47) December 20, 2018 Read more…
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The internet roasts Trump for saying the wall will be made of ‘artistically designed steel slats’
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As of lunchtime Thursday, Capitol Hill was still in chaos over an impending government shutdown unless Trump abandons his demand for border wall funding. Meanwhile, Twitter users were still having fun with Trump’s declared logistics of the proposed wall.
On Tuesday night, as all of this debate was really heating up, Trump dropped this pair of tweets over his demands for the wall and what, exactly, he envisioned it would look like.
The Democrats, are saying loud and clear that they do not want to build a Concrete Wall – but we are not building a Concrete Wall, we are building artistically designed steel slats, so that you can easily see through it….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 19, 2018 Read more…
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Trump’s border wall gets a GoFundMe campaign that’s trying to raise $1 billion
President Trump has so far failed to secure funding for his long-promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, so now his most ardent supporters are trying to pay for it themselves.
Earlier this week, a GoFundMe campaign that aims to raise one billion …
2018 was the year of the youth activist
These are the young activists who made their voices heard this year. Read more…More about Mashable Video, Activism, Unicef, Immigration, and Gun Control
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