2019 Outlook: Business to Push Back Against Immigration Policies

Federal agencies are likely to continue to tighten the screws on the legal immigration system next year, while Congress and the courts focus primarily on high-profile issues such as border security, asylum seekers, and dreamers.

The Trump administration likely will carry on with its regulatory and policy changes that are reshaping business immigration, Theresa Cardinal Brown, director of immigration and cross-border policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center, told Bloomberg Law. Most of those changes have been extremely technical, and so largely have flown under the radar.

That’s exactly why these types of changes are likely to continue, she said.

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