Departing Obama Administration Makes Two Excellent Immigration Decisions
By David North, January 13, 2017
It is probably a coincidence, but the dying Obama administration announced two excellent immigration decisions yesterday (January 12).
The president announced that the long-standing policy on illegal immigrants from Cuba — automatic legalization if they can reach dry land in America — would be terminated immediately; and
The Department of Homeland Security announced proposed regulations of the EB-5 (immigrant investor) program that will nearly triple the amount of money to be raised, without increasing the number of visas, and will probably tilt the distribution of these funds away from already prosperous areas into more depressed ones.
As near as I can tell, the Cuban decision came as a surprise, but the EB-5 modifications have been in the works for weeks if not months.
Two major and some lesser EB-5 changes were proposed in the Federal Register:
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