Trump’s New Executive Orders Could Thwart His Immigration Policy

Business immigration attorneys seeking to challenge Trump administration immigration policies believe their efforts could be bolstered by two new executive orders designed to force federal agencies to cut red tape and help businesses run more smoothly.

The pair of executive orders, which President Donald Trump signed in October, appear to undercut some of his hard-line immigration-related actions, such as increased scrutiny of visa petitions, increased fraud investigations, and workplace raids.

“These orders seem to work at cross-purposes with the immigration-specific executive orders,” said Carl Hampe, an immigration attorney with Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy in Washington.

But business immigration ...