What Joe Biden’s presidency might mean for H-1B visas and Indian immigration to the US

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Article by Scroll in, September 7, 2020:

After the opening speakers had warmed up the virtual audience, a blue-suited Joe Biden appeared on the live stream with a bookshelf in the background and made what sounded like a campaign pitch to Indians and Indian Americans.
 
“I know it is hard,” he said in the message on India’s Independence Day. “My heart goes out to all those of you who have been the targets in the rise in hate crimes, the crackdown on legal immigration, including the sudden and harmful actions on H-1B visas that for decades have made America stronger... We will overcome and build back better than ever.”...
 
Biden has released a policy document – reportedly the first-ever by a presidential candidate – aimed exclusively at Indians. Among other things, it mentions his plans to reform the H-1B visa system, increase the number of visas, and eliminate “the limits on employment-based green cards by country, which have kept so many Indian families in waiting for too long”....
 
Joe Biden has made it crystal clear that he is going to turn the clock back and eliminate the anti-immigration proclamations/executive orders put in place by [Donald] Trump,” said Sheela Murthy, founder and president of Maryland-based Murthy Law Firm, one of the largest immigration firms in the US that has been helping immigrants since at least 1994.
 
The fact that Joe Biden has recognised America as a nation of immigrants is “music to the ears of immigration lawyers like myself,” said Murthy....
 
CAIRCO Notes
 
American is not a "nation of immigrants." America is a nation of citizens. America's vast territories were populated by settlers. Settling in an undeveloped land and building a civilization is not comparable to moving to a post-industrial nation and signing up for welfare.

America Is Not A Nation Of Immigrants, Daily Caller, August 4, 2015.

Video: A nation of immigrants, by Michelle Malkin, PragerU, August 20, 2018.

 
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