The White House has rolled back several of the provisions attached to a new $100,000 fee for H-1B workers. Immigration analysts predict legal challenges to the executive order.
Economist Richard Wolff warns the U.S. faces decline, as failed tariffs, mass deportation threats, and global shifts erode its power, leaving America isolated abroad and unstable at home.
“Much of this is self-inflicted. If we turn the page on tariffs by locking them in or by rolling them back, I think the economy would slowly start to recover. But there's been no signals of Trump changing his tune.” — Stanford economist Dr. Neale Mahoney.
India and China’s continued purchases of crude oil from Russia may factor heavily into tariff negotiations with the US, said Dr. Anil Deolalikar, professor of economics at the University of California, Riverside.
Hundreds dead, cities like Beijing, Hong Kong, Seoul, and Islamabad flooded, and infrastructure in ruins as storms and monsoons batter South and East Asia.
Jun 6 | President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” which passed the House last month, includes a 3.5% tax on remittances. Experts believe this tax would not only hurt economies abroad, but could also impact consumer spending levels in the US.
Stanford Professor Dr. Sumit Ganguly states that Pakistan and local Kashmiris were complicit in an April 22 terrorist attack which killed 26 people, forcing India to retaliate with air strikes.
Sanders has proposed an amendment to the Laken-Riley Act, which he said would add more oversight to the H-1B visa program. In an interview with EMS, immigration attorney Kalpana Peddibhotla, executive director of the South Asian American Justice Collaborative, said the senator's claims were unsubstantiated.
