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Today we honor and remember all those we lost on Sept. 11, 2001. As we reflect on this anniversary, USCIS continues to strengthen our foundation as a nation of welcome while also supporting Department of Homeland Security's mission to secure our homeland.

https://www.investkorea.org/ik-en/cntnts/i-341/web.do

Foreigners can start business in Korea (including the establishment of corporations) by acquiring new or existing stocks as prescribed by the Foreign Investment Promotion Act, or by establishing a domestic branch or liaison office in Korea as prescribed by the Foreign Exchange Transaction Act.

A foreign-invested company is a domestic corporation established under the Commercial Act. It is classified as either an unlimited partnership company, a limited partnership company, a limited liability company, a limited company, or a stock company. The most common types of corporations established by foreign investors are limited companies and stock companies

How Foreigners Can Start Business in Korea | InvestKOREA(ENG) Foreigners can start business in Korea (including the establishment of corporations) by acquiring new or existing stocks as prescribed by the Foreign Investment Promotion Act, or by establishing a domestic branch or liaison office in Korea as prescribed by the Foreign Exchange Transaction Act.

https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/ncr-voices/why-vance-scarier-trump-issue-immigration

When Vance converted to Catholicism, he evidently missed the session on church teaching about human dignity, and the one about church history, and the one on biblical exegesis regarding welcoming the stranger. Still, perhaps it is not Vance's intellectual and religious affinities but his relative groundedness that is more worrisome. Trump rants, but Vance makes plans. The thought of this duo gaining power is terrifying.

Why Vance is scarier than Trump on the issue of immigration When JD Vance converted to Catholicism, he evidently missed the session on church teaching about human dignity, and the one about church history, and the one on biblical exegesis regarding welcoming the stranger.

https://abcnews.go.com/538/immigration-issue-trump-2020/story?id=112648693

The issue of immigration has fueled former President Donald Trump's dominance over the Republican Party for the past nine years. When he first ran for office, negative views of immigrants were an important factor in him winning the GOP nomination. Those views were an even stronger predictor of voting for him in the 2024 primaries.

Why immigration is a better issue for Trump than it was in 2020 Why immigration is such a good issue for Donald Trump and Republicans.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/harris-talking-immigration-allies-think-political-advantage-rcna165211

WASHINGTON — All of a sudden, Kamala Harris is talking about the border — and relishing it.

As Harris prepares to barnstorm battleground states this week along with her running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, her campaign is banking on an issue that, until recently, Democrats had ceded to Republicans and Donald Trump: immigration.

Harris is talking about immigration more, and her allies think it could be a political advantage As California's attorney general, Harris prosecuted transnational criminal organizations.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/30/politics/harris-immigration-trump/index.html

Vice President Kamala Harris went on the offensive on immigration at her rally in Atlanta Tuesday, attempting to counter former President Donald Trump’s attacks on the issue.

She touted her role as a California attorney general who prosecuted transnational gangs, drug cartels and human traffickers, then blamed Trump for “tanking” this year’s bipartisan border bill on Capitol Hill “because he thought it would help him win an election.”

“Donald Trump does not care about border security, he only cares about himself,” Harris said, adding that she would work to pass the bill as president.

“In this campaign, I will proudly put my record against his any day,” she said in a high-profile visit to Georgia that comes early in her bid and signals the campaign’s renewed push to put the state in play for Democrats. She also called on Trump to debate her, drawing loud cheers from the crowd when she said, “Because as the saying goes, if you’ve got something to say, say it to my face.”

Harris goes on offensive on immigration, comparing her record with Trump’s | CNN Politics Vice President Kamala Harris went on the offensive on immigration at her rally in Atlanta Tuesday, attempting to counter former President Donald Trump’s attacks on the issue.

https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2024-07-26/trumps-immigration-plan-an-economic-loser-and-job-killer

The former president’s calls for mass deportation are celebrated by many on the right who fail to face the facts on just how much they would hurt American workers.

Trump's Immigration Plan: An Economic Loser and Job Killer The former president’s calls for mass deportation are celebrated by many on the right who fail to face the facts on just how much they would hurt American workers.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/06/18/fact-sheet-president-biden-announces-new-actions-to-keep-families-together/

In order to be eligible, noncitizens must – as of June 17, 2024 – have resided in the United States for 10 or more years and be legally married to a U.S. citizen, while satisfying all applicable legal requirements. On average, those who are eligible for this process have resided in the U.S. for 23 years.
Those who are approved after DHS’s case-by-case assessment of their application will be afforded a three-year period to apply for permanent residency. They will be allowed to remain with their families in the United States and be eligible for work authorization for up to three years. This will apply to all married couples who are eligible.
This action will protect approximately half a million spouses of U.S. citizens, and approximately 50,000 noncitizen children under the age of 21 whose parent is married to a U.S. citizen.

FACT SHEET: President Biden Announces New Actions to Keep Families Together | The White House Since his first day in office, President Biden has called on Congress to secure our border and address our broken immigration system. As Congressional Republicans have continued to put partisan politics ahead of national security – twice voting against the toughest and fairest set of reforms in d...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-plan-undocumented-immigrants-legal-status-10-years-in-u-s-married/

The Biden administration is making plans to announce one of the largest immigration relief programs in recent history, developing a policy that would offer legal status to hundreds of thousands of immigrants living in the country without proper documents, four people familiar with the plans told CBS News.

A program being developed by White House officials would offer work permits and deportation protections to unauthorized immigrants married to U.S. citizens, as long as they have lived in the U.S. for at least 10 years, the sources said, requesting anonymity to talk about internal government plans.

The proposal, known as "Parole in Place," would also open up a pathway to permanent legal status and U.S. citizenship for some beneficiaries by removing an obstacle in U.S. law that prevents those who entered the U.S. illegally from obtaining green cards without leaving the country.

Biden preparing to offer legal status to undocumented immigrants who have lived in U.S. for 10 years The program would offer work permits and deportation protections to unauthorized immigrants married to U.S. citizens, as long as they have lived in the U.S. for at least 10 years, sources said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/09/us/politics/biden-protection-undocumented-spouses.html

The Biden administration is considering a proposal to protect undocumented spouses of U.S. citizens from deportation and allow them to work in the country legally, according to four officials with knowledge of the discussions.

The officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the matter, said that no final decision had been made and that the shape of the policy was unclear. Any such program could also provide some spouses an easier route to obtain U.S. citizenship.

The proposal comes as President Biden has moved to address political liabilities in his immigration policy in recent days.

Last week, he moved to bar asylum for migrants crossing into the United States as part of an effort to toughen border enforcement, eliciting criticism from members of his own party. And now, a move to protect undocumented immigrants in the United States could help Mr. Biden address some of the fierce resistance that order elicited and shore up support among immigrant advocates, Latino voters and his progressive base.

Biden Administration Considers Protection for Undocumented Spouses of U.S. Citizens The steps under consideration include protecting them from deportation and providing access to work permits, according to three officials with knowledge of the discussions.

https://www.businessinsider.com/immigration-labor-shortage-immigrants-us-economy-jobs-workers-retirement-inflation-2024-2

Month after month, the US economy continues to add hundreds of thousands of jobs.

While some industries are still struggling to find workers, the number of job openings has fallen over the past two years — signaling that the worst of the labor shortage that started during the pandemic is over.

Without immigrants, it likely wouldn’t have been possible.

Remember the labor shortage? Immigrants are helping to fix it. Immigrants are responsible for almost all US job growth over the past year. They're why the labor shortage isn't so bad anymore.

https://www.fox4news.com/news/illegal-immigration-sb4-goes-before-judge

DALLAS - The Biden administration and Texas will face off in federal court Thursday morning over a controversial state immigration law.

The ACLU and the Department of Justice are suing Texas in an effort to stop Senate Bill 4 from becoming a law.

New Texas law targeting illegal immigration goes before judge The Biden administration and Texas will face off in federal court Thursday morning over a controversial state immigration law.

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https://www.cato.org/commentary/want-solve-border-crisis-legalize-immigration?

The United States has among the lowest population densities of any country in the world, and U.S. population growth in the 2020s has never been lower. America needs people to fill its nearly nine million open jobs and support its growing retiree population.

Immigrants aren’t the problem. The politicians are the problem.

Want to Solve the Border Crisis? Legalize Immigration Migrants aren’t the problem and the country is not “overwhelmed.” Nativist politicians and impossible barriers to legal entry caused (and maintain) the chaos.

https://time.com/6548602/conservative-case-for-immigration/

One of the most basic facts of American political life today is Republican opposition to immigration. According to Gallup, 73 percent of Republicans would prefer to see immigration levels decreased. All the current contenders for the GOP presidential nomination have sharply criticized the Biden Administration on border security, vowing if elected to crack down on illegal immigration, and Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis have proposed policies that would reduce legal immigration as well. Republicans in Congress are so concerned about the flow of migrants across the Southern border that they won’t move forward with President Joe Biden’s emergency aid request for Ukraine unless Democrats agree to a deal that would make it harder for people to seek asylum.

But if you think about it, there are good reasons for Republicans to favor more immigration.

The Conservative Case for Immigration Why are Republicans so opposed to immigration? From religion to the economy, the argument doesn't add up.

https://www.pbs.org/video/short-history-korean-american-immigration-h9xpiz/

Independent Lens | A Short History of Korean American Immigration | Season 24 | Episode 12 | PBS What was that Korean-American journey like?

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/05/politics/biden-border-wall/index.html

President Joe Biden says he’s been forced to violate a campaign promise by adding some new construction to Donald Trump’s border wall.

Big city Democratic mayors are angrily demanding more engagement from the Democratic president to help deal with a wave of migrants seeking asylum. One of them – New York Mayor Eric Adams – is in Latin America this week.

Immigration reality is scrambling the normal immigration rhetoric in uncomfortable ways for Democrats, who generally want to appear welcoming but appear to be taking a harder line along with their new positions.

The arrival of migrants in big cities is forcing Democrats to change their immigration politics | CNN Politics President Joe Biden says he’s been forced to violate a campaign promise by adding some new construction to Donald Trump’s border wall.

https://www.voanews.com/a/what-happens-to-immigration-if-us-government-shuts-down/7289041.html

With congressional leaders gridlocked over the nation’s budget and the deadline to pass spending bills fast approaching, the federal government could shut down on October 1. And that can affect some immigration services and visa programs.

If the federal government closes, only essential personnel will be working. All other federal workers will not be allowed to work. So how will that affect immigration in the U.S.?

The main difference between the following agencies is that some are fee-funded and the others rely on congressional appropriations for funding.

“In addition to where the budget for these different agencies comes from, we also need to look at the plans that each agency has published for just this kind of scenario,” said Cesar Cuauhtemoc Garcia Hernandez, a professor at the Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University and an expert on migration studies.

What Happens to Immigration if US Government Shuts Down? Main difference is whether agencies are fee-funded or rely on congressional appropriations

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/biden-administration-worries-new-york-fumbled-migrant-problem-rcna103582

There are growing concerns within the Biden administration that New York City is not doing enough to handle its migrant problem, according to several U.S. officials, after a federal team surveyed its migrant operations and found them lacking in key areas.

Biden admin officials worry New York has fumbled its migrant problem “It’s not an operationally sound effort,” said a senior DHS official, who added the city has “no exit strategy” to see that migrants find their way out of the shelter system.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/05/us-immigration-homeland-security-social-media-fake-profiles

One policy document uncovered in the requests says DHS officers, who work on fraud detection and are part of US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), can use fake accounts to research people “requesting immigration benefits”. The document provides additional detail about a practice USCIS first announced in 2019. Those officers – working for the agency that decides who gets green cards and citizenship – can gather a wide range of data, including physical addresses, relationship information, employment and education affiliations and any social media posts that are “contrary to information submitted by the applicant”, the policy said. Any information collected in these investigations must be “saved” in the individual’s file, even if it’s found to be not “derogatory”, according to the document.

Revealed: how US immigration uses fake social media profiles across investigations Records from the Department of Homeland Security show it sought to expand undercover operations online despite pushback from Facebook

New York City is struggling to manage 100,000 migrants who have shown up during the last year from Venezuela, several African nations, and other failing states that are miserable and dangerous. A COVID-era emergency restriction on border crossings expired in May, opening the door to thousands of additional migrants, mostly coming to the United States over the southwest border.

Biden’s blowing an opportunity on immigration Thousands of migrants in New York City and elsewhere are doing nothing while they wait for work permits.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/26/increasing-immigration-could-help-solve-labor-crisis-economists.html

There are almost 4 million more open roles than job seekers in the U.S. Here's why some economists think the immigration and labor crises are related The U.S. has more than 9 million open roles and only 5.8 million job seekers. Here's why some economists think the immigration and labor crises are related.

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/12/1193597303/a-visa-program-created-to-help-law-enforcement-solve-crimes-puts-immigrant-victi

NPR spoke to 17 U visa applicants, each of whom have been waiting for two to seven years for their visas. They describe a program whose years-long delays put them in immigration limbo, spending months helping law enforcement catch their perpetrators while trying to survive in the country without the means to work legally.

A visa program created to help law enforcement solve crimes puts immigrant victims at risk instead The U visa program was created to both help law enforcement solve crimes and protect the immigrant crime victims reporting them. But it puts applicants in limbo for years, unable to work legally.

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/korean-american-migrants-south-korea-challenges-intl-hnk-dst/index.html

Growing up in North Carolina, Kevin Lambert knew he was different from his White peers. The Korean features he inherited from his mother stood out, and he “always felt outcast, always felt outside.”

“All my childhood, in the ’80s and ‘90s, all I got was: ‘Hey, are you Chinese? Do you know kung fu?’” he said.

That uneasy, ill-fitting feeling lingered into adulthood – pushing him to move to South Korea in 2009, hoping to find “the missing puzzle piece behind the couch that makes the sky complete.”

He’s one of many Asian Americans born or raised in the United States, whose parents immigrated to the US decades ago, leaving behind a poor postwar South Korea in pursuit of the American Dream – only to see the next generation make the reverse journey back.

They left South Korea for the American Dream. Now their children are moving back | CNN Korean Americans, born and raised in the US, are migrating to South Korea. But for many, even moving thousands of miles away brings them no closer to finding home.

https://www.govexec.com/management/2023/07/biden-boosts-legal-immigration-pathways-implementing-agency-pushed-brink/388856/

As the Biden administration continues to expand ways for immigrants to legally enter and remain in the United States, the agency tasked with overseeing and implementing those efforts is suffering under the strain of its ever-growing workload.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is struggling to keep pace with its new and growing responsibilities, according to watchdogs and agency employees, and some of its backlogs have grown to unprecedented heights. The 842,000 pending asylum cases are at an all-time high and the number is expected to exceed 1 million in 2024. The higher-than-usual number of migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border, coupled with global events such as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan following the U.S. military’s withdrawal there, has created dueling priorities that have exacerbated longstanding capacity concerns.

As Biden boosts legal immigration pathways, an implementing agency is pushed to the brink Underresourced and overstretched, USCIS is struggling to keep pace with Biden’s immigration legacy.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/florida-bans-drivers-licenses-immigrants-living-us-illegally-2023-07-06/

The out-of-state licenses, designed specifically for unauthorized immigrants and deemed invalid by the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, are from Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Rhode Island and Vermont.

The list includes out-of-state licenses that indicate “Not for Federal Identification” or “Driving Privilege Only.” Those found to be driving in Florida with such licenses will face citations and other penalties.

Florida bans driver's licenses of immigrants living in US illegally Florida will no longer accept driver's licenses issued by some other U.S. states to immigrants living in the country illegally under a law signed by Governor Ron DeSantis as he seeks the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/proposed-english-speaking-part-revamped-us-citizenship-test-raises-con-rcna92636

ST. PAUL, Minn. — The U.S. citizenship test is being updated, and some immigrants and advocates worry the changes will hurt test-takers with lower levels of English proficiency.

A proposed English-speaking part for the revamped U.S. citizenship test raises concerns for some Proposed changes include a speaking part based on a picture prompt and a civics multiple-choice format.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/korean-american-judicial-nominee-shares-adoption-immigration-journey-s-rcna88470

Attorney Susan Kim DeClercq, President Joe Biden’s nominee to be a federal judge in Michigan, detailed her adoption and immigration to the U.S. in emotional remarks at her first nomination hearing Wednesday.

DeClercq said that, as an infant, she had been left on the steps of a hospital in Seoul, South Korea, and was adopted and raised by a single mother in the U.S.

“I’m very proud of being an immigrant,” DeClercq told the Senate Judiciary Committee. “I’ve always been very aware of how different my life would have been had that not happened and the incredible opportunities that this country has given to me.”

Korean American judicial nominee shares her adoption and immigration journey with Senate committee If confirmed, Susan Kim DeClercq would be the first federal judge of East Asian heritage in Michigan, according to the White House.

https://twitter.com/DOJ_EOIR/status/1666792171016421379?s=20

DOJ EOIR on Twitter “Due to poor air quality, the Annandale, Baltimore, Elizabeth, Hartford, Hyattsville, Newark, New York – Broadway, New York – Federal Plaza, New York – Varick, Philadelphia, Sterling, and Ulster Immigration Courts will be closed today, Thursday, June 8.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/economics/trapped-work-immigrant-health-care-workers-can-face-harsh-working-cond-rcna83979

WASHINGTON — Nurses and other health care workers who have been brought to the U.S. from overseas to fill thousands of vacant jobs say in some instances they’ve been subjected to unsafe working conditions, wage theft and threats of tens of thousands of dollars in debt if they quit or are fired.

Trapped at work: Immigrant health care workers can face harsh working conditions and $100,000 lawsuits for quitting Hospitals and nursing homes have filled thousands of vacant positions with nurses and other health care workers recruited from abroad, who say they are bound in some instances by contracts that impose tens of thousands of dollars in penalties for leaving and threats of lawsuits for not paying.