Jane Devlin

International medical graduates accounted for more than ¼ of the 1 million active U.S. physicians in 2024 Their role is especially important in many specialties facing workforce shortages This #KidneyWeek, we look at one of them – nephrology – in a new report 🧵

Who are the international travelers who come to the US on temporary visas? 🧳3/4 are just visiting 🛠️1/10 are temporary workers 🎓Just under 1/10 are international students See more: https://bit.ly/temporaryvisastats

Where are all those US workers who supposedly have been unemployed waiti g for these jobs?! That has alweays been fiction. www.wsj.com/us-news/the-...

"The U.S. has long welcomed foreign-educated physicians as a way to ameliorate its doctor shortage. Already, an estimated 102 million Americans live in communities that don’t have enough primary care providers." https://bit.ly/4B35nnH

Over 500 U.S. citizens detained seems like a lot projects.propublica.org/american-cit...

I talked with Matthew Soerens of World Relief about the first year the U.S. will likely resettle no Christians fleeing persecution. Listen to the whole conversation: austinkocher.substack.com/p/president-... @matthewsoerens.bsky.social

"A new state report details the economic contributions of Maine's immigrant workers, as a growing number of those workers are swept up in President Donald Trump's mass deportation push." https://bit.ly/4ymreVC

Tomorrow at 3 pm ET I am talking with @matthewsoerens.bsky.social about World Relief's finding that FY2026 is likely the first year the U.S. resettled no persecuted religious minorities. Register at us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

'The Holy Father's #WDMR message recalls what matters in our service: placing the most vulnerable at the center, above all uprooted children.' Ahead of Sunday's World Day of Migrants & Refugees, find out about our work for displaced children's education shorturl.at/hancU

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***OAH Letter Writing Event for NARA*** The OAH Committee on the Status of African American, Latina/o, Asian American, and Native American Historians (ALANA) has an upcoming event to preserve the National Archives and Records Administration facilities in San Bruno and Chicago. Thread - 1/

Native-born labor force participation just hit its lowest August on record. Despite the admin's claims, deportations are not freeing up jobs for Americans — 600,000 native-born workers have left the labor force in the past year.

And here's a link to the site, developed by Austin, Bishal Timsina, and me @relevantresearch.bsky.social detentionmortality.com

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@ingjerdra.bsky.social Condolences 🙏🏻https://www.aftenposten.no/norge/i/Jx2QEX/kong-harald-v-er-doed

Come work with me at Just Neighbors!

@ingjerdra.bsky.social Interesting press.vatican.va/content/sala...

"This is heartbreaking for me. I don't know how I can mentally continue working 12+ hour days knowing that my dad is somewhere, possibly being treated like a criminal," said U.S. Navy sailor Joshua Aviles after learning that his father had been arrested by federal immigration officials.

NEW: The Trump admin is proposing to impose a $103,265 fee on all H-1B visa petitions which are subject to the annual cap of 85,000 visas. The fee would apply to all those selected in the annual lottery who go on to file H-1B visa petitions. There is a 30-day comment period which starts tomorrow.

There MUST be a reckoning for this travesty of not just justice, but humanity.

Pingree says ICE’s ‘presumed target’ in Biddeford did not have final removal order

AFFIRMED: U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit affirms the judgment in Guerrero Orellana v. Moniz in its entirety. This class action victory confirms that thousands of people arrested by ICE across New England cannot be arbitrarily and unlawfully deprived of their liberty.

Pope Leo in Message for World Day of Migrants and Refugees: “An urgent change of perspective is needed: the focus of the debate must shift from the mere management of migration to the full and immediate protection of human rights…” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

GREAT DELEGALIZATION WATCH: The last big TPS grant standing is El Salvador. 170K people who've been here since 2001 (not a typo). Set to expire in Sept. DHS was legally supposed to announce whether they were terminating in July. They didn't. But they're now trying to scare employers about it. +

NEW: The Trump administration has begun arresting foreign citizens with expired visas as they travel through airports, according to documents obtained by The Times and interviews with lawyers — a tactic that opens up a vast new pool of people for deportation. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/u...

Nope! Ironically, IRCA in 1986, which created the modern I-9 process and which first barred the employment of people without legal authorization, does not bar anyone from running a business. And it's not unlawful to contract with a company run by an undocumented immigrant who does the job.

Sister Norma Pimentel is back in the news for her work along the border. At a 2023 NPF training, she shared her first-hand experience working with migrant children & families at the U.S.-Mexico border in McAllen, TX. 🔗 https://nationalpress.org/topic/children-border-patrol-sister-norma-pimentel/

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NAFSA statement on duration of status policy change for international students www.nafsa.org/Duration-sta...

The fear that someone might get away is not a legitimate basis for shooting them! Definitely not for a suspected civil infraction!

Some home and nursing care employers decided to not wait for guidance after the SCOTUS decision, laying Haitian caregivers with TPS off, or putting them on leave, illegally. Today the feds extended the work permit date to July 24. www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social

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Japan’s migration story is quieter than most. Mackenzie talks about how the country may avoid the big immigration debate, while still relying on migrant workers in places like elderly care. watch: austinkocher.substack.com/p/mackenzie-...

@timmathews.bsky.social Ahem news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

BREAKING: The Supreme Court in a 6-3 vote UPHOLDS birthright citizenship, affirming the default rule that all persons born in the United States (with narrow exceptions) are U.S. citizens at birth. A total LOSS for President Trump and the effort to rewrite the 14th Amendment.

Starts in one hour, and there is still time to register! Join me and Sui Chung of Americans for Immigrant Justice at 11 AM Eastern to talk about protecting immigrant veterans and military families from deportation: austinkocher.substack.com/p/keeping-am...

The United States is arresting, detaining, and deporting the very immigrants who signed up to defend it. Veterans, active-duty service members, military families. I'm hosting a live conversation about it next week. 🧵 austinkocher.substack.com/p/keeping-am...

Join immigration attorneys from Ccab.org for 2 live webinars in English & Haitian Creole Monday, June 29, at 10 a.m. & 5 p.m. re: termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti & Syria. No registration req’d. For more info www.ccab.org/refugee-immigrant-services/

Newly back (and actually posting this year)! Short version: I work to move private capital to refugee entrepreneurs — not as charity, but because they’re some of the best founders most investors never meet. Book on it, “Banking on Belonging”, out July 21. I also make mead in Virginia. 👋 #refugees

Yeah. immigrants raise this as a huge issue constantly. It’s crazy