Mike Jackson, vice president of public policy and research at WERC, sits down with Justin Parsons, partner at Erickson Immigration Group, to talk about the Laken Riley Act in the U.S., which was recently passed into law under the Trump administration.
With this law, the Department of Homeland Security is required to detain “certain non-U.S. nationals (aliens under federal law) who have been arrested for burglary, theft, larceny, or shoplifting.” Parsons, a member of WERC’s newly formed U.S. Immigration Rapid Response Task Force, shares how the law transfers power to U.S. states to revoke or take away visas from certain individuals. He and Jackson discuss the impact on talent mobility and immigration, and how this will be a space for businesses to watch in the coming months as the situation evolves.