A $100K fee on Optional Practical Training would prevent international students from working in America. In response, “US companies would likely expand hiring overseas and shift more research & development out of the United States.” @mclem.org @adamposen.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

New Immigration Plan Considered To Stop Students From Working In U.S.

The Trump administration is considering imposing a $100,000 fee on international students who want to work on Optional Practical Training.

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A $100K fee on Optional Practical Training would prevent international students from working in America. In response, “US companies would likely expand hiring overseas and shift more research & development out of the United States.” @mclem.org @adamposen.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

New Immigration Plan Considered To Stop Students From Working In U.S.

The Trump administration is considering imposing a $100,000 fee on international students who want to work on Optional Practical Training.

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US tariffs are taxes on Americans. The pass-through rate of the President's tariff spike in 2025 was 92%. Ninety two percent of the tariffs are paid by American consumers as higher prices. By Conservative and Liberal consumers—who have been lied to about that harm. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

The Incidence of Tariffs: Rates and Reality

(Summer 2026) - In 2025, statutory tariff rates on US imports rose to levels not seen in over one hundred years. What were the implications for prices? On the one hand, shipping lags, exemptions, and ...

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With higher naturalization fees, longer tests, doubling denial rates, “neighborhood investigations,” slow processing and denaturalizations, Trump officials are making U.S. citizenship harder to acquire and easier to revoke. @mclem.org @douglasrivlin.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

Trump Immigration Policies Make It Harder To Get And Keep Citizenship

The Trump administration has implemented immigration policies making U.S. citizenship harder to acquire and easier to revoke.

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A new DHS rule change could more quickly shift asylum applications from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to immigration judges. https://www.notus.org/immigration/rule-asylum-to-immigration-courts

New Rule Could Send Hundreds of Thousands Seeking Asylum to Immigration Courts

The Trump administration said the change was meant to decrease the backlog of applications.

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Marc Rosenblum, head for statistics at DHS, resigns, saying he is delighted to no longer be involved in supporting the agency's war against facts and the truth. www.wired.com/story/dhs-of...

DHS Official Resigns, Citing ‘War on Immigrants’

The outgoing executive director of the Office of Homeland Security Statistics is one of very few federal officials to speak out against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

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In a conclusion aimed at pleasing Stephen Miller rather than Donald Trump, a White House report criticizes the immigration of scientists, arguing it’s bad whether international students earning PhD’s stay or leave after graduating. @mclem.org @douglasrivlin.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

White House Report Criticizes The Immigration Of Scientists To America

A new White House report criticizes the immigration of scientists to America, arguing it’s bad whether international students stay or leave.

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Immigration is supposed to be Trump's strongest issue, and yet:

Very interesting new commentary by Tatiana Stanovaya @ceip-politika.bsky.social: “It Has Begun: On a New Crossroads for the Putin Regime.” Key claim is that there has been a “tectonic shift” in Russia, “where the elite is beginning to realize that ‘the cat isn’t catching any mice’.” 1/5

Началось, или О новой развилке путинского режима

В России рождается два разнонаправленных тренда, рвущие режим на части. Первый — это путинская логика войны, где эскалация влечет за собой еще большую эскалацию, второй — запрос на перемены, на реалис...

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A story in three acts. Act 1: In February, George Borjas released a paper justifying the US President's $100,000 H-1B tax. www.nber.org/papers/w34793 Below is that version's mandatory @nber.org disclosure section, when it was released in February and revised in March.

The costs of international student exclusion will be vast and permanent. It will harm all Conservative Americans and their children; it will harm all Liberal Americans and their children. It is the exact opposite of what our tech-driven economy needs. I summarize my research at @piie.com —>

The US is driving away international students at a long-term economic cost

For generations, students from around the world have fueled universities in the United States, their top destination by far. Those students don't just sustain a $43 billion export industry in higher e...

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One third of all PhD STEM workers in the US are immigrants who studied at a US university. Today the US Administration extended its efforts to slash high-skill immigration, undermining foreign students' trust that they can complete their degrees & work afterwards. My new piece at @brookings.edu —>

What does the new duration of status rule mean for international students and workers? | Brookings

Brookings guest authors break down a recent DHS rule change and what it means for US temporary visa holders and the broader economy

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Intl. students, including PhDs, must finish degrees in 4 years. The only assurance from DHS in new rule is the right to file an extension. NFAP’s Mark Regets asks, “How is that a genuine assurance? Why take a chance on a US education?” @mclem.org @adamposen.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

DHS Finalizes Immigration Rule That Imperils Status Of Many Students

The Trump administration has finalized an immigration rule that is expected to imperil the status of many international students.

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A human rights lawyer fled China and came legally to the US , where he is applying for asylum and waiting for his case to be adjudicated. He was delivering packages for Amazon when ICE arrested him this week. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

ICE arrests human rights lawyer who fled Chinese crackdown

Arrest in Pennsylvania of Wu Shaoping, who is awaiting asylum decision, raises fears of deportation and persecution

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You can imagine why the Trump administration might get a wee bit defensive about anyone offering a critical perspective on this part of our nation’s history. Especially since they hope to repeat it. The latest edition of Receipts from @crampell.bsky.social:

Racist Law From 1882 Is Not That Racist, Trump Says

Buried in the White House’s broadside against the Smithsonian is a bizarre—and revealing—claim about the Chinese Exclusion Act.

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DHS agents were mad about the order to suspend vehicle stops because they're "adrenaline junkies who want car pursuits." And they often deliberately let suspects get into vehicles before attempting to make arrests. www.ms.now/opinion/ice-...

The United States banned naturalization by ethnically Asian people in 1870. Then it banned entry by ethnically Chinese people in 1882, Japanese in 1908/1924, and almost all other Asians in 1917. Courts clarified these were racial, not geographic bans. Extremist memes will not erase history.

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 3w ago

A White House report has defended the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, pushing back against its characterization by a Smithsonian Institution exhibit that the law was racially motivated. www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

Homan just admitted ICE has been endangering the public, its targets, and its own officers by making record vehicle stops without even an enforcement upside! He admits that they could be arresting people outside of their cars but haven't been, yet ICE plans to restart them again!

A White House report has defended the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, pushing back against its characterization by a Smithsonian Institution exhibit that the law was racially motivated. www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

White House Defends 1882 Immigration Law Excluding Chinese Immigrants

The Trump administration is defending the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act against the charge that the law had a racist intent.

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ICE shooting victim in Maine was a 26-year-old man from Colombia with work authorization and a Social Security Number, likely an asylum applicant. It'll be interesting to see how he came to be on ICE's radar.

David J. Bier@davidjbier.bsky.social · 3w ago

A theme in ICE shootings is putting their bodies in front of vehicles. This practice is dangerous for the officers and manufactures a reason for them to shoot drivers if they make one wrong move. One witness says the victim said, "I tried to stop" before dying. www.pressherald.com/2026/07/13/b...

Trump admin defends 1882 law. “The report on the Smithsonian Institution shows White House officials may be sensitive to criticism of the Chinese Exclusion Act because the Trump admin has adopted a number of similar policies.” @mclem.org @douglasrivlin.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

White House Defends 1882 Immigration Law Excluding Chinese Immigrants

The Trump administration is defending the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act against the charge that the law had a racist intent.

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“I think his strategy now is the same as it's really been from the very beginning, which is to try and figure out how to subjugate Ukraine. ...And he's using really most of the means at his disposal to try and achieve that,” says Professor @bdtaylor-su.bsky.social. @supolisci.bsky.social

Professor Brian Taylor discusses the latest news surrounding the war in Ukraine

Maxym Krapivnyy, TV Host and Brian D Taylor, Professor of Political Science, Maxwell School, Syracuse University, discussed the latest news surrounding the war in Ukraine. What options does Putin have today to improve Russia's position? If ending the ag...

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A study finds restrictions imposed in the 1920s, which Stephen Miller has praised, harmed innovation and reduced Americans’ economic well-being. Immigrants increase innovation by locating in hubs like Silicon Valley, NY and Boston. @mclem.org @douglasrivlin.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

Study Breaks New Ground On The Benefits Of Immigration To Innovation

A recent study breaks new ground on the benefits of immigration to innovation by focusing on where immigrants decide to live and work.

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New CSIS data shows Russia has lost the military initiative in Ukraine as costs continue to mount, having suffered 1.4 million battlefield casualties and as many as 450,000 deaths since its February 2022 full-scale invasion. 🧵 Read more here: bit.ly/4vQXO0v

This is FALSE. ICE data showed DHS averaging 1,259 deportations/day through April 4. There is ZERO sign deportations rose by 154% since. Mullin also mixes up DHS's (also FALSE) claim that 70% arrested have any criminal record at all, and claims that 70% are felons. Wildly wrong.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

Markwayne Mullin says DHS is deporting over 3,200 people a day

🗣️ Published today in @aeajournals.bsky.social. Ethan Lewis and I use a visa lottery, as a nationwide randomized experiment, to test the effects of foreign labor on US firms and workers. doi.org/10.1257/app.... A concise summary from @nber.org —> www.nber.org/digest/20221...

The Supreme Court has upheld the US Administration's termination of Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelans+Haitians—> www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p... 13 colleagues and I estimated the economic cost: $20bn/year lost to the US economy, and 360,000 US jobs: www.aclunorcal.org/sites/defaul...

“Stephen Miller is implementing an immigration policy designed to lower the labor supply, a prescription for reducing economic growth and raising the federal debt, given the crucial role immigrants play in US labor force growth.” @mclem.org @douglasrivlin.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

Book Reveals Stephen Miller’s Control Of U.S. Immigration Policy

A new book reveals how White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller has controlled the Trump administration’s immigration policies.

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Note Patrushev was head of the FSB at the time, widely criticized for the death of 130 people in the spetsnaz storming of the theatre. In the interview he seeks to shift the blame to Security Council secretary Sergey Shoygu, another longtime Putin ally who is now under siege. See here for this: 5/6

Former FSB director Patrushev said rescue workers, not Russia’s security services, were responsible for the 2002 Moscow theater hostage deaths. (Sergei Shoigu led those rescue services.) — Meduza

Nikolai Patrushev, former director of the Federal Security Service (FSB) who now serves as a presidential aide, has blamed rescue workers for the deaths of hostages during the terrorist attack at Dubr...

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“An immigrant saved the now-champion New York Knicks in Game 4 of the NBA Finals & demonstrated why US companies seek the best talent regardless of where someone was born…No sports fan complains that their championship-winning team employs too many immigrants.” @mclem.org reason.com/2026/06/16/s...

Sports fans don’t complain their championship-winning team employs too many immigrants

Sports fans don’t complain that immigrant athletes are taking “American jobs.”

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