Patricia Lopez

2 weeks ago | bloomberg.com | Patricia Lopez

One of many Venezuelan immigrants now in legal limbo. (Bloomberg Opinion) -- Nearly 1 million people who entered the US legally, under temporary protections, have nevertheless become ripe targets for deportation under President Donald Trump. His goal of mass deportations came into sharper view earlier this month, when the US Supreme Court lifted a federal injunction that had barred Trump from removing 350,000 Venezuelans in the US under a program known as Temporary Protected Status.

2 weeks ago | bloomberg.com | Patricia Lopez

A green card with every diploma. (Bloomberg Opinion) -- As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump was so keen to retain foreigners who choose to study in the US that he made an unusual pledge: “Y Elsewhere in Bloomberg Opinion: Stop Scaring Future World Leaders Off US Campuses: Andreas Kluth It’s Bad for International Students Everywhere: Matthew Brooker The War on ‘Woke’ Universities Will Slow US Innovation: Adrian WooldridgeFor more, subscribe to our newsletter.

3 weeks ago | bloomberg.com | Patricia Lopez

MAGA in South Africa. (Bloomberg Opinion) -- As one of the first acts of his second term, President Donald Trump suspended the US refugee program, not to be restarted “until such time as the further entry into the United States of refugees aligns with the interests of the United States.” Almost four months later, it is now clear which refugees align with those interests, and which do not: Prosperous, White South African farmers are allowed in, while Afghans fleeing the Taliban are not.

4 weeks ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Patricia Lopez

The latest inducement to get undocumented immigrants to leave the US is one that is unlikely to sit well with much of President Donald Trump’s working class MAGA base: a parting gift of $1,000 and a plane ticket home. But news of this arrangement has been mostly eclipsed by the second part of the self-deportation strategy: The threat, for anyone who fails to self-deport, of being sent to a country with a terrible human rights record.

4 weeks ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Patricia Lopez

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