Monique Verdin, "Headwaters : Tamaracks + Time : Lake Itasca" (2019), digital assemblage. Photograph taken in 2019; United States War Department map of the route passed over by an expedition into the Indian country in 1832 to the source of the Mississippi River.

Legal Challenges to Temporary Visas

January 29, 2016

 

1/29/16 – In a legal first, two employees laid off from their technical jobs have filed class-action federal lawsuits against their Florida-based employer and a pair of global consulting companies, alleging that the firms collaborated intentionally to use temporary visas to bring in foreign workers to replace U.S. citizens. In Issues, an experienced analyst has taken an even broader look at problems within the government’s visa and immigration systems for scientific and technical workers, offering a comprehensive set of reforms.