YASAMAN MOAZAMI – H-1B visas allow companies to hire high-skilled tech workers from abroad.[1] The tech companies are not the only ones looking elsewhere for talent. A variety of companies, from healthcare to media, use H-1B visas to help fill their workforce.[2] There were more than a quarter of a million applicants last year alone.[3] […]
CONRAD C. WITTE – On February 14, 2017, the New York Times reported that the Russian military had secretly deployed a new model of cruise missile that violates a 1987 arms control treaty between the United States and Russia.[1] While this is not the first time that the U.S. government has alleged a Russian violation […]
FRANK FLORIO – On Sunday, February 12, 2017 a young Afghan couple was murdered by an angry mob in Kabul, Afghanistan.[1] The couple had been arrested and held at a police station for illegally eloping.[2] An angry mob stormed the police station the couple was held at, grabbed the couple, took them out and killed […]
STEPHANIE MACLAUGHLIN – On January 27, 2017 President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order entitled “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States”. The order imposed a 90-day suspension on entry into the United States for “all travelers, except U.S. citizens, traveling from Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Iran, Somalia, Libya, and Yamen.[1] The […]
