Bennett v. Southern Pacific 1987 Extensive Losses
Fraud of the Court 1990
Bennett looses case at Court House steps when Attorney of Record cannot find witnesses. In 2001, Bennett's attorney hit by arsonist, 2004, Bennett's attorney beaten well enough he moved away. In 2012, they finished him off by killing the in-law of his attorney Dax Craven. In 2015, City Attorney for Concord CA, Mark Coon jumps to his death. Tough day for officers but apparently customers of Plaza Escuala and Olympia Plaza kept on eating oblivious of the nearby fatality.
Arson Summers / Winter Mayhem - 2004
"During the winter of 2004, during an eviction forced to sell off my sons playstructre. The inadvertant connection creates a connection to Alicia Driscoll and her daughter, by June 2005 she was found dead with her daughter"
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The facts around Clint Eul's death are murky,
He was employed Walnut Creek
Raised in Martinez
Deaths in the Delta
Found dear in ditch near Moth Ball Fleet in the Delta.
Just like the 1980's a Foundation Contractor was found in the Delta.
Lived in a county with separate lynchings in 1986
Concord and another in Lafayette CA same agency as my July 20th, 2011 hit and run.
Knows me a local resident whose relatives were murdered in Springville UT in Springville UT.
Sure there is aboslutely no connection to Albert D. Seeno's foundation contractors death to the suicide of Concord CA City Attorney Mark Coon but when you consider that relatives of Super Lawyers James Greenan and Daniel Horowitz were murdered you might begin wonder why the son of Attorney Robert S. Miller drowned and the son of Attorney Art Beheil son died of a suicide in the same holding cell area as David Bremer who was my former roommate.
Murdered by son connected to Mormon Danville Stake
Contra Costa Business Persoon
Elected Official
Country Club Murders
Mormon > Danville Stake > San Ramon Members
Top The Untimely Deaths near Los Lomas High School (2004 to 2015)
The facts around Clint Eul's death are murky,
Los Lomas High School Students
Matt Miller - father is attorney
Gavin Powell / Father worked for Longs Drugs - suffered stroke during lunch
Clare Orton
Adam Williams
Jineva Driscoll
The facts around Alicia Driscoll' death are murky and steeped with connections to Kinder Morgan
Employed Walnut Creek (Artist/Sign Painter)
Long ties to area
Daughter would have attended local elementary school
Found deceased in Sonoma County
Background:
November 2004: Kinder Morgan Explosion
December 2004: Driscoll responds to Bennett posting for sons playstructure.
Dec. 2004: Danville Resident Chad Cordon was allegedly injured in a school bus accident on Lilac Drive Walnut Creek
Dec. 2004: Bennett being sued for eviction / forced to move
Dec 2004: Trailer rigged to flip / occurred on Stone Valley Road.
Documents taken by Alamo 1st members Chris Ivory and Russ Darby
Sept 2015 The Buchanan Family Murdered in El Dorado County (See #deadlitagants)
June 2004: Driscoll's found dead of Murder Suicide
Suicide with her daughter Jineva, around that time near where
Los Lomas High School
Adam Milford was found, near where a body was allegedly found along the same creek.
Former General Counsel for Southern Pacific from 1972 to 1994 where Mr. Kopf moved along with the assets of Southern Pacific to Bechtel Real Estate and Investment, later rebranded to Fremont Group.
Bennett v. Southern Pacific
He lost his suits when his dry cleaner committed suicide around the time he was appearing on CNN
His business eventually collapse in connection to rouge police officers connected to the City of Pittsburg where Bennett was forced out of business by external forces.
One key factor was the pattern of incidents and breakins which included Arson
Steve Burd CEO of Safeway
Member of Hillside
Steve Burd personally ejected me from the Walnut Creek Safeway using a store mananger to accuse me of stealing food.
After several years of harrassment in this store that began near in unison with the arrests of Police Officers in a emerging corruption case that began when not long after the Concord and Lafayette Lynchings
in the 1980s.
Pete Bennett met Kobe, Pete Bennett sued Philip Anschutz 1/3 owner of the
Lakers, Pete's relatives murdered, his portion of multimillion trust forged,
his truck explodes and his role in 9/11 unknown outside law enforcement
substantial credible and damaging to many in power
The Mormon Monster of Alamo 1st Ward, killer of witnesses, senior cult leader
tricking Bill Gates, Philip Anschutz, Calera Capital and kidnapping
conspirators
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Mitt Romney’s business career seems to dovetail neatly with his Mormon
faith
The Mormon church’s personal economic precepts sound like a mantra for
fiscal conservatives: Pay an honest tithing, live on less than you earn,
distinguish between needs and wants, develop and live within a budget, and
be honest in all financial affairs.
But as debate rages about the ethics of Republican presidential candidate
Mitt Romney’s leadership of Bain Capital — a private equity and venture
capital firm that sometimes made riches by shutting down companies and
laying off workers — it seems his business career might have dovetailed
neatly with his Mormon faith.
“There’s nothing in Mitt Romney’s record that suggests that his financial or
business decision-making have been motivated by anything other than
bottom-line considerations. To be fair: As a capital manager, that’s his
job,” said Joanna Brooks, a San Diego State literature professor who
publishes the “Ask Mormon Girl” blog.
Modern Mormon communities “have come to view financial success as an
inherent good without necessarily having the same conversations about how
money is made, as may take place in other faith traditions,” Brooks said.
It’s a more profit-oriented, value-neutral approach to financial decisions,
she said: Money is consecrated in the act of tithing and other donations to
the church, and “how that money is made is less of a religious
preoccupation,” she said. That’s been particularly true as the Mormon church
grew dramatically in the past 50 years, which required considerable
money.
Romney’s 2011 tax returns showed he and his wife, Ann, gave the church $2.6
million — more than 12 percent of the $21 million they earned — while also
giving $1.4 million in cash and stock to their family foundation, which
heavily supports the church. In 2010, they gave $1.5 million to the church —
about 7 percent of their earnings — plus $900,000 to their family
foundation.
Patrick Mason, chairman of Mormon studies at Claremont Graduate University
in Southern California, agreed that “Romney is almost prototypical of the
majority of modern American Mormons.” The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints — which in its early years embraced communal economics and
criticized cutthroat business practices — “embraced pro-market American
capitalism” in the late 19th century as part of its attempt to assimilate
into society, he said.
The Mormon ethics of self-reliance, accountability and hard work lent
themselves well to that economic ethos, he said. “It’s a mistake to say
wealth equals God’s favor, but it’s not a surprise when God does bless you
with wealth when you’re living right.”
Yet while there’s a clear expectation that faithful Mormons must contribute
some of their assets to building God’s kingdom through their church,
“Mormonism has never developed a real social ethic as opposed to Catholic
social teaching or the social gospel that’s in Protestantism,” Mason said.
Mormons aren’t unconcerned with social welfare, and acts of individual
charity are important, he said, but “it largely is secondary; it doesn’t
define what the gospel is or how people go about their lives.
“I do think there’s a strong element of libertarianism … within Mormon
thought along these lines. It’s very much a laissez-faire approach,” he
said. “It gives Mormons and potentially Romney an added layer of confidence,
of assurance that this is not just good economics but it’s good religion,
too.”
Rick Kopf of Alamo, who directs the Latter-day Saints’ Bay Area Public
Affairs Council, said charity for the less fortunate in the community and
humanitarian projects abroad are a huge part of Mormon practice.
Mormonism teaches that “materialism can be a huge burden to a person. … It’s
how they use it that’s very important,” he said. “We encourage hard work, we
encourage people to be successful but to do it for the right means. We’re
not out there trying to be rich for the sake of being rich.”
Personally, Kopf said, “I would hope that any political candidate who’s a
member of the church would live by the values of the church would be true
and honest and virtuous and family-oriented.”
Evan Chase, a staffer at the California Election Forum website, which offers
election recommendations for Christian voters, said he would like to hear
Romney say more about how his Mormon faith informs his fiscal and economic
policies.
“I haven’t heard him communicate that very much,” he said. “That affirms my
interest in voting for Mitt Romney. In the evangelical community, those are
strengths; those are American strengths.”
The burial of Nathaniel greenan son of Attorney James greenan who represented Contra Costa County, in the matter of Contra Costa County versus Chevron where are the County dumps Millions.
Nate was in Vinny's Bar in Concord in March of 2012 just days before I was arrested and jailed where Chief Wenzel formerly of Danville was commander of the jail
The Mormon news is the people standing in this picture of Mormon, the chief of Danville is Mormon the Mormons controlled DEA Mark Peterson convicted o perjury, the connection between Michael Peterson and his Russian connections likely lead to Pavolo Lazerenko defended by Daniel Horowitz, who wants to send it attorney William McCann in connection to the 500 La Gonda way legal dispute with developer Sid Correy.
This dispute brings in Bill Tauscher, Ellen Tauscher friends of Hillary Clinton, Blackhawk Network's, Safeway CEO Steve Burd who knows attorney Rick Kopf from when they work totogether add Southern Pacific which makes Steve burd privy to Bennett versus Southern Pacific where my witness was murdered.
Anything out of Safeway's mouth from this point forward is a lie and that extends to Fremont Group in San Francisco desperately pedaling backwards to overturn the past.
Overview of issues connecting Pete Bennett to the TPG Family of companies which connect Kinetic Concepts funded by Fremont Group, Fremont Group Partners, Weintraub Capital, Stinson Partners and TPG Newbridge.
The Grand Connection is Bennett v. Southern Pacific where witness Floyd Brown Jr. was murdered in in 1989 by operatives connected to disgraced operatives of District Attorney Mark Peterson, his brother Michael Peterson, his brethren at Alamo 1st Ward Alamo CA attorneys Rick Kopf, James Greenan and deceased realtor Brian Schwalen who died suddenly after services. I was there so I know very well his condition.
In case anyone like the ATF is interested. This is the current or former residence of Lori, a good friend before my 1996 marriage. She worked for CEO Steve Burd who orchestrated the merger to AB Acquisition putting Safeway and Albertson under singular management.
Safeway Management and Private Equity Takeover (1988)
Steve Burd was in the Safeway Management background in 1988 when Pittsburg Manager Cynthia Kempf was murdered and was clearly in charge when Safeway Management hired Pharmacist Jamey Sheets involved in the deaths of four in the Doc's Pharmacy Bio-Terrorism Story which leads to Fremont Group Attorney Rick Kopf whose dubious link to the Bin Laden Group linked to a questionable 10 Million transaction just before 9/11. Read my comments on the Patriot Act, Bechtel, Bin Laden and former Vice President Dick Cheney with references to the JoBenet Ramsey.
In 2014, I learned first hand that this is so big that these actors are willing to kill children, students plus stage murder suicides of entire families.
Case CIVCS08-0374 - WOOD VS BENNETT
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07/31/2008
WRIT OF POSSESSION ISSUED TO CONTRA COSTA RETURNED FULLY-SATISFIED
Not Applicable
07/21/2008
PAYMENT OF TRUST IN THE SUM OF $213.32, CHECK NUMBER 07001956, ISSUED TO: TRACEY & CAROL WOOD
Not Applicable
07/02/2008 5:00 PM DEPT. 3CLK
CLERK`S CALENDAR - FAILURE TO DISPOSITION UNLAWFUL DETAINER COMPLAINT
Vacated
06/10/2008
FEE RECEIVED FOR RENT MONIES FROM PETE BENNETT
Not Applicable
06/10/2008 1:30 PM DEPT. 54
HEARING ON PETITION FOR STAY OF EXECUTION - Minutes
Completed
06/10/2008
ORDER FILED ON WAIVER OF FEES AS TO PETE BENNETT IS GRANTED.
Granted
06/06/2008
PETITION FOR STAY OF EXECUTION FILED BY PETE BENNETT
06/06/2008
NOTIFIED SHERIFF & PLTS ATTY (LEFT MSG) OF STAY
Not Applicable
06/06/2008
APPLICATION FOR WAIVER OF COURT FEES AND COSTS FILED BY PETE BENNETT.
06/06/2008
HEARING SET ON PETITION FOR STAY OF EXECUTION FOR 6/10/08 AT 13:30 IN DEPT. 54
05/29/2008
WRIT OF POSSESSION ISSUED TO CONTRA COSTA COUNTY
05/29/2008
JUDGMENT ENTERED FOR RESTITUTION OF THE PREMISES ONLY ON 05/29/08
Not Applicable
05/22/2008
DEFAULT ENTERED ON THE UD COMPLAINT FILED 05/14/2008 OF TRACEY WOOD AGAINST DEFENDANT PETE BENNETT, ALL OCCUPANTS
Not Applicable
05/22/2008
REQUEST TO ENTER DEFAULT ON UD COMPLAINT FILED 05/14/2008 OF TRACEY WOOD FILED AS TO DEFENDANT PETE BENNETT, ALL OCCUPANTS
Not Applicable
05/22/2008
PROOF OF SERVICE FILED ON ALL OCCUPANTS FOR PRE-JUDGMENT CLAIM OF RIGHT TO POSSESSION SERVED ON 05/14/08
Not Applicable
05/22/2008
ALL OCCUPANTS ADDED AS A PARTY
Not Applicable
05/22/2008
PROOF OF SERVICE FILED ON UD COMPLAINT FILED 05/14/2008 OF TRACEY WOOD AS TO DEF ENDANT PETE BENNETT WITH SERVICE DATE OF 05/14/08
Not Applicable
05/14/2008
COLOR OF FILE IS BLUE
Not Applicable
05/14/2008
ORIGINAL SUMMONS ON UD COMPLAINT FILED 05/14/2008 OF TRACEY WOOD FILED
Not Applicable
05/14/2008
HEARING ON FAILURE TO DISPOSITION UNLAWFUL DETAINER COMPLAINT WAS SET FOR 7/02/08 AT 17:00 IN DEPT. 3CLK
Pete Bennett founder of nomoreh1b, appeared on CNN, ABC and LA Times
Apparently Senator Lee of Utah loves the H-1b visa and wants to ignore that Pete Bennett who has appeared many times on CNN with Lou Dobbs is related to the Strack Family murdered in Utah. Senator Mitt Romney source of donations leads to former Southern Pacific Attorney Rick Kopf who was defense counsel in Bennett v. Southern where they killed a witness parallel Southern Pacific
SALT LAKE CITY – Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) issued the following statement Wednesday after Lou Dobbs falsely claimed on cable television that S. 386 “would double the size of H-1B visas.”
“I 100% agree with the White House that the H-1B program should not be used to displace or replace American workers. That is why S. 386 contains strong new anti-fraud provisions to make sure employers cannot abuse the H-1B system to undercut American workers,” Sen. Lee said.
“S. 386 is also ‘number neutral’, meaning it does not increase the number of visas, H-1B or otherwise in anyway, and under no circumstances will it become a vehicle for increasing overall immigration levels. What it does do is end the discriminatory current policy that punishes green card applicants from large countries. Our immigration system should not be in the business of discriminating against immigrants based on their country of origin and S. 386 solves that problem,” Sen. Lee finished.
Pete Bennett former resident of Danville CA knows almost every person
at the final moments of Nate Greenan. This collection of
attorneys, bankers and real estate professionals are fully aware of
the Pete Bennett arson.
Nate Greenan 2012
The Attorney standing over casket of his son has numerous connections to
Fremont Group located in San Francisco. Nate grew up in Danville,
attended Alamo 1st Ward, performed on-stage at Vinnies the same Monday in
March 2012 Pete Bennett performed.
Bennett was arrested landed in Martinez Detention Center while in
protective custody was placed with an inmate known to be violent and
mentally unstable.
At the time the jail was managed by Patty Grant and Commander Chris Wenzel
who careers spans nearly every city under control of the Contra Costa
Sheriff.
More to come later on how important this highly suspicious death connects
to the FBI investigation around former State Senator Don Perata,
Councilman Mike Shimansky, Councilman Gary Bell, and Tax Collector Bill
Pollacek and how all these incidents connect to the indictment of Contra
Costa District Attorney Mark Peterson.
One unseen connection is Michael Peterson attends Alamo 1st Ward with
Attorney Rick Kopf of Fremont Group and Southern Pacific, Attorney James
Greenan, Former resident and Attorney David Harmer and Greg Smyth of CBRE
is what Pete Bennett knows.
What he knows is Nate Greenan is more of several connectors to the CNET
Scandal that netted a Federal Indictment with close to 10 convictions.
In 2011 no far from this murder Pete Bennett's car was pushed into
oncoming traffic during his gig with PG&E.
Summer 2004 One day my truck exploded just a few years after 9/11
Sometime in 2002 The New Yorker Magazine article quoting Fremont Group General Counsel Rick Kopf in regards to a Patriot Act filing connected to the 10 Million Dollar investment by Bin Laden family. That was not from the Mr. Bin Laden himself but in reality it was from the Saudi's.
Women, Children and others die so you can snort again and again?
At the this juncture near Pete Bennett is a Mormon Murder story with five dead in Utah, one dead in Barcelona, two dead in Pleasanton, Three dead from Alamo 1st and 2nd, and one dead from Walnut Creek 1st.
Bennett faces endless obstacles with Contra Costa County, City of Walnut Creek, Town of Danville, City of Lafayette and a long list of failures at agencies protecting themselves.
Mark Peterson
In 2017 Contra Costa District Attorney was convicted of Perjury, disbarred and removed from office. In 2010 Bennett went to Peterson about the Parental Abduction of his sons weeks later he was evicted from his offices.
This former FBI agent arrived at Mainframe Designs Cabinet and Fixtures a few months after his role in the investigation of the 1988 Lockerbie Bombing but during the Matter of Bennett v. Southern Pacific
Bennett moved his cabinetshop from Concord to Pittsburg in 1981, he hired Tiny Bynum on a Wendesday but shot dead by Saturday. His brother was also employed was arrested a few days later.
Long Overdue changes too late for family the Strack relatives of Pete Bennett murdered with connections to outsourcing, Alamo 1st Ward, plus the theft of a trust, property with surreal links to the 1990 Judi Bari Bombing, the offices containing the SEC investigation of Enron lost in the demolotion of Building 7, and the 1989 witness in Bennett v. Southern Pacific.
A curious connection is SP Chairman Philip Anschutz knows SP Attorney Rick Kopf, who knows all the Bechtel CEOs via his second career as General Counsel of Fremont Group.
I write about globalization, business, technology and immigration.
Showing no sense of irony, the Trump administration is celebrating the expected launch of a SpaceX rocketship at the same time Trump officials plan to restrict H-1B visas, the same type of visa the founder of SpaceX, Elon Musk, used to begin working in the United States. The new regulatory actions against employers will come days after the White House issued an executive order on “regulatory relief” for businesses.
An H-1B visa is typically the only practical way for a foreign national to work long-term in the United States. However, several sources have confirmed the Trump administration will soon implement new restrictions on H-1B visa holders and international students, intracompany transferees and likely even the spouses of high-skilled professionals.
An analysis of immigration law and regulations, as well as recent administration actions, leads to the conclusion a combination of methods will be used to implement the restrictions. Blocking New H-1B and L-1 Visa Holders: The April 22, 2020, presidential proclamation suspended the “entry” of most immigrants. (H-1B visa holders are not immigrants; they have temporary status.) The word “entry” appears more than a dozen times in the proclamation. That is because attorneys note a president’s authority under Section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act can be used against the “entry” of people, as opposed to actions inside the country. “A proclamation issued under 212(f) may only restrict the entry of foreign nationals,” according to the law firm Berry Appleman & Leiden. “It may not be used to deny a petition to change or extend status, or to deny an application to adjust status.”
Given that limitation, a new presidential proclamation may suspend the entry of H-1B and L-1 visa holders, or achieve a similar result by imposing new conditions on their entry. Administration officials have discussed preventing the entry of H-1B visa holders who are not paid at the highest wage level – Level 4 – under the U.S. government’s prevailing wage criteria, even if the individual is applying for their first job. A National Foundation for American Policy analysis concluded such a requirement would become burdensome by creating exceptionally high minimum wages for H-1B visa holders: more than $254,000 a year for a financial manager in New York City, $144,165 annually for a biochemist in Chicago, including post-docs, and $172,640 for a software developer in Silicon Valley.
L-1 visa holders are multinational executives or managers, or employees with “specialized knowledge” transferred into the United States. The job protection arguments around L-1 visa holders are puzzling, since such individuals already work for the company. Preventing their entry will discourage businesses, particularly multinational companies, from investing more in the United States. Why invest in America if the U.S. government will not let you transfer your employees into the United States?
“Preventing businesses from transferring their highly talented workers into the U.S., even temporarily, will limit their ability to do critical scientific research, build new product lines, generate economic growth and create new jobs,” said Jon Baselice, executive director for immigration policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, in an interview. Using Regulatory Authority for H-1B, OPT, L-1 and H-4 Spouses: To impose new restrictions affecting international students, L-1 intracompany transferees and H-1B visa holders and their spouses the administration would need to use regulatory authority, which may include issuing regulations that have been on the agenda for months or years.
A rule on H-1B visas already on the Trump administration’s regulatory agenda would “revise the definition of specialty occupation . . . and revise the definition of employment and employer-employee relationship.” That regulation may now be issued. The topics in the potential regulation overlap with a recent settlement between U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and the business group ITServe Alliance that overturned 10 years of policies restricting employers and H-1B visa holders. (See here.)
The administration continues to target Optional Practical Training (OPT), which allows international students to work for 12 months, usually after graduation, and 24 additional months in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. A summary of a rule proposal on the agenda states: “ICE [Immigration and Custom Enforcement] will amend existing regulations and revise the practical training options available to nonimmigrant students on F and M visas.”
Any action against Optional Practical Training could be labeled “temporary” or a “suspension,” yet even that would make it more difficult for U.S. universities to convince international students they should study in America, particularly when countries such as Canada continue to be so welcoming. On May 14, 2020, the Canadian government announced significant flexibility for international students, including preserving the ability to work after graduation. (See here.)
An item on the regulatory agenda for L-1 visas would “propose to revise the definition of specialized knowledge, to clarify the definition of employment and employer-employee relationship and ensure employers pay appropriate wages to L-1 visa holders.” There is nothing in the immigration statute about a wage requirement for L-1 visa holders.
For years, the Trump administration has placed a proposed rule on the regulatory agenda to rescind an existing regulation that allows many spouses of H-1B visa holders to work – called H-4 EAD (employment authorization document). The administration could issue the rule.
In a recent government filing to oppose a group’s lawsuit against the current H-4 EAD regulation, the Trump administration made what appears to be a damaging admission: “Save Jobs’s claim of irreparable harm relies on the H-4 Rule eliminating or significantly reducing employment opportunities, meaning that the number of available information-technology jobs would significantly decline due to the H-4 Rule. But this relationship has not been shown to be ‘certain’ and ‘actual,’ rather than merely ‘theoretical.’” In other words, there is little evidence the spouses of H-1B visa holders harm U.S. tech professionals.
What type of regulations would the administration issue? William Stock of Klasko Immigration Law Partners thinks issuing a 212(f) proclamation that prevents the reentry of international students on Optional Practical Training who leave the U.S. would have an immediate but limited effect.
In an interview, Stock said it is more likely the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) would issue an interim final rule eliminating or significantly restricting OPT or STEM OPT. “An interim final rule can have an immediate effect, but can only be issued in limited circumstances and it’s not clear that a court would hold they exist here,” he said. “If that happens, schools and interest groups will go to court right away and say the rule change cannot be done as an interim final rule, and have a stronger case than if the agency had done notice-and-comment rulemaking.” He notes a court struck down an interim final rule from the Bush administration on STEM OPT, though it was given time to go through the notice-and-comment process and issue a new rule.
An interim final rule allows a rule to take effect almost immediately and would change only if an agency believes public comments justified it.
Another option, raised by Berry Appleman & Leiden (BAL), is the administration would issue “temporary final rules” in potentially multiple areas, including OPT, H-1B, L-1 and H-4 EAD. “[A]gencies are required under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) to provide the public with adequate notice of a proposed rule followed by a meaningful opportunity to comment on the rule’s content,” according to a BAL policy update. “That process normally takes 12-18 months. However, an agency may issue a rule without prior notice and opportunity to comment when the agency for ‘good cause’ finds that those procedures are ‘impracticable, unnecessary, or contrary to the public interest.’ Put simply: the government may, under certain situations, issue a regulation that is effective immediately. In the past month, DHS has relied on that exception to the APA multiple times to issue Temporary Final Rules.”
“A Temporary Final Rule must of course be temporary, and statutes outside of immigration law limit temporary final regulations to three years,” according to BAL. “The recent H-2B and H-2A Temporary Final Rules are valid for three years and 120 days, respectively.”
William Stock provides a guidepost: “One way to tell whether the immigration hardliners win their battle with the pro-business advocates in the administration will be to see whether any changes to summer student employment, the F-1 OPT program and other temporary work visas are ‘temporary final rules’ or ‘interim final rules.’ Both types of rule changes skip the formalities and public involvement required for new regulations, but as the name implies, ‘temporary’ final rules have an expiration date while ‘interim’ final rules just change the rules without public comment. If DHS enacts substantial limitations to temporary work visa rules by ‘interim final rule,’ it will be a sign that the hardliners have won in getting the president to authorize long-term changes without public comment, using the pandemic as their excuse and opportunity.”
Analysts believe the administration may use justifications for new immigration restrictions that are contrived. Recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicate the unemployment rate in computer occupations declined between January and April 2020 – and it makes little sense to institute permanent (or semi-permanent) immigration changes in response to temporary economic problems caused by a health crisis. Analysts see little justification for the types of immigration changes being discussed, particularly since the president and top economic advisers have promised the economy will improve significantly by the fall or summer.
On May 27, 2020, a group of Republican senators, led by Senators Lindsey Graham and John Cornyn, wrote a letter recommending the president take a reasonable approach on temporary visas by putting aside the easy populist messages some have urged and focusing instead on the need for foreign-born workers who can aid the recovery, help businesses and complement U.S. workers. The senators correctly noted not all sectors of the economy have been equally affected by the fallout from pandemic lockdowns and social distancing.
Many in the business community fear that those in the administration who are “pro-growth” and supportive of immigration have numerous issues to worry about, while those most opposed to immigration, such as White House adviser Stephen Miller, spend nearly every waking hour focused on denying opportunity to as many foreign-born people as possible. They fear in a fight between the zealous and the moderate, the zealous will win, harming America and its future for years to come.
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