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Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law at Cornell Law School, and Shannon Gleeson, associate professor of labor relations law and history at Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, comment on the Supreme Court's decision this week regarding certain immigrants granted temporary protected status. 

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Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law at Cornell Law School, says while the changes proposed by the Biden administration would indicate progress, the only lasting way to fix the immigration system is through Congress.

Law and Policy

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Maria Figueroa, director of labor and policy research at Cornell University’s Worker Institute, comments on Uber's formal recognition of British trade union GMB.

Industrial and Labor Relations

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Sarah Kreps, a technology, international politics and national security expert, comments on two new investigations from the European Union's privacy watchdog into EU institutions’ use of cloud computing services offered by Amazon and Microsoft.

Arts and Sciences

International

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The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture recently announced a white-tailed deer in northwestern Pennsylvania, only five miles from the New York border, tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD). Krysten Schuler, wildlife disease ecologist and one of the top researchers regarding CWD, says this positive CWD case will require a thorough investigation to make sure it did not infect wild deer in New York.

Veterinary Medicine

New York State

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Sital Kalantry, an expert on the Indian judicial system, comments on news that WhatsApp has sued the Indian government over its new privacy rules.

International

Law, Government & Public Policy

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Neema Kudva, an expert on sustainable development in small cities and their regions in South Asia, comments on Cyclone Yaas threatening Eastern India, and its potential impact on critical infrastructure as well as the COVID-19 crisis in the country.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Architecture, Art and Planning

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Valzhyna Mort, professor in Cornell University’s English department, is a poet born in Minsk, Belarus and comments on the arrest of Belarusian journalist Roman Protasevich. 

International

Law and Policy

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Desirée LeClercq, professor of employment law and an expert on labor provisions in trade agreements, comments on the first U.S.-Mexico Canada Agreement Free Trade Commission meeting.

Industrial and Labor Relations

Economics and Business

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Arthur Wheaton, an expert on the automotive industry at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, comments on President Biden's proposed $174 billion investment in electric vehicles.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Industrial and Labor Relations

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