ability of US employers to hire and retain highly skilled foreign workers

Late last year, I wrote on the controversial executive actions on immigration that President Obama announced in November. As I noted then, those executive actions include several initiatives that will make it easier for employers to hire and retain highly skilled foreign national workers.

One of these initiatives—finalizing new regulations to provide work authorization

The executive actions on immigration that President Obama announced in late November include a hodgepodge of new policies and directives that will impact millions of foreign nationals—both documented and undocumented—now living and working in the United States.

The most sweeping changes are the deferred action policies that will provide protection from deportation to an estimated