Rosa Ayala carries a Resident Alien placard during the International Workers Day and Immigration Reform March on May Day in Los Angeles, California (REUTERS/David McNew).

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This Week in Immigration: Senate Markup

May 7, 2013, Nicole Prchal Svajlenka

Nicole Prchal Svajlenka gives a rundown of the latest week's news on the fast-moving issue of immigration policy and reform.

  • In the News

    What we haven’t really achieved in our system after decades of thinking about [immigration policy] is how to adjust the admissions policy to better suit our economic needs in something closer to real time. That is going to be part of the discussion in the next couple of months. Do we make changes based on some market demand, and how do we measure that? Do we set out knowing what we want and then adjust our policies?

    February 19, 2013, Audrey Singer, Bloomberg
  • In the News

    [The H-1B visa issue] is not just an issue for Microsoft and Intel, it’s an issue for the American heartland. There are a lot of companies that need specialist skills, especially in STEM fields, and they just can’t find them locally so they have to search globally. —Neil Ruiz

    February 11, 2013, Financial Times