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“The need for assistance [in Puerto Rico] is now so dire it is impossible to ignore – to do so would precipitate a humanitarian disaster even greater than the one already in progress.”

Steven C. Kyle

associate professor, macroeconomics policy expert

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Topic Name Date
Industrial and Labor Relations , Economics and Business
Maria Lorena Cook
Maria Lorena Cook

Professor of International and Comparative Labor
“Unless Congress acts, hundreds of thousands of DACA recipients stand to lose their deportation relief and work authorization on March 5, 2018, the date that DACA is set to expire."
Media: Rebecca Valli rv234@cornell.edu 202-434-8049
Related Tip Sheet: Dreamers communities stand to lose in DACA bargain (11/30/17)
Industrial and Labor Relations , Economics and Business
Associate Professor of Labor Relations, Law & History at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations
Shannon Gleeson

Associate Professor of Labor Relations, Law & History at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations
“With the rescission of DACA, the President and Attorney General have needlessly stripped these immigrants of this critical support, putting the well-being of these immigrants, their families, and their communities in danger. The same is true for the Temporary Protected Status program that Trump is dismantling piece by piece."
Media: Rebecca Valli rv234@cornell.edu 202-434-8049
Related Tip Sheet: Dreamers communities stand to lose in DACA bargain (11/30/17)
International Reach , Foreign Policy , Law and Policy , Economics and Business
Annelise Riles

Annelise Riles is the Jack G. Clarke Professor of Law in Far East Legal Studies and Professor of Anthropology at Cornell University.

Historians will date this trip as a key moment in the decline of U.S. power in the Asia-Pacific region, when Asian leaders stepped up and took the reins.
Media: Rebecca Valli rv234@cornell.edu 202-434-8049
Related Tip Sheet: Despite red carpet, Trump agenda in Asia largely ignored (11/28/17)