Benjamin Powell

Nov 27, 2024 | eurasiareview.com | Benjamin Powell

President-elect Donald Trump has promised to carry out the largest deportation of undocumented immigrants in American history. His appointment of Thomas Homan, a former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as border czar signals his commitment to that promise. There are 11.7 million people residing in the United States illegally.

Nov 27, 2024 | blog.independent.org | Benjamin Powell

Feast and football. That’s what many of us think about at Thanksgiving. Most people identify the origin of the holiday with the Pilgrims’ first bountiful harvest. But few understand how the Pilgrims actually solved their chronic food shortages. Many people believe that after suffering through a severe winter, the Pilgrims’ food shortages were resolved the following spring when the Native Americans taught them to plant corn and a Thanksgiving celebration resulted.

Oct 31, 2024 | mondaq.com | Benjamin Powell |Kirk J. Nahra |Ali Jessani

With the publication of a recent Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), the Department of Justice National Security Division will soon become an important new regulator of transactions involving the transfer of sensitive U.S. data to "countries of concern", such as China and Russia.

Oct 28, 2024 | mondaq.com | Benjamin Powell |Barry Hurewitz |Matt Jones

On October 11, 2024, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) at long last published a final rule establishing the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Program (the Final Rule). Designed to ensure that federal contractors have implemented safeguards to protect Federal Contract Information (FCI) and Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), the Final Rule sets up a new compliance framework for DoD contractors and subcontractors that process FCI or CUI.

Oct 4, 2024 | thehill.com | Benjamin Powell

The strike by 47,000 International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) members, which shut down all 36 East and Gulf Coast ports, has ended after an agreement on wages. However, the most important issue, automation, remains unresolved. The union which wanted a 77 percent pay increase over six years, and the U.S. Maritime Alliance, which was negotiating for the ports, wanted a 50 percent increase, compromised and agreed to a 62 percent increase. The compromise on wages ended the strike.