Immigration Not Top Priority for Scalia at Labor Department

Eugene Scalia‘s new job as head of the Labor Department isn’t likely to spell big changes in immigration policy.

“He’s been a labor lawyer for large companies,” said Greg Siskind, an immigration attorney with Siskind Susser in Memphis, Tenn., who attended the University of Chicago Law School with Scalia. That’s “exactly the kind of guy you’d want to get in there” from a business immigration perspective, he said.

But that isn’t necessarily a signal that there will be a shift away from the Trump administration’s scrutiny of employment-based visas, particularly the H-1B specialty occupation visa.

“He’s going to have ...