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Despite CDC recommendations that farmworkers should be one of the first groups selected for COVID-19 vaccinations, some of the top farming states have not prioritized agricultural workers. Beth Lyon and Mary Jo Dudley are available to discuss the importance of vaccinating farmworkers.

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Jaclyn Kelley-Widmer, professor of immigration law and director of Cornell University’s Immigration Law and Advocacy Clinic, says the court strike-down of the Biden administration's proposed 100-day moratorium on deportations means that it engage more effectively with ICE on conducting deportations.

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Cornell University experts are available to weigh in on Congress taking up either Biden's immigration wide-ranging bill or smaller pieces of legislation, offering historical, legal and labor perspectives.

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On Thursday, the House Financial Services Committee will host a hearing to discuss the recent GameStop stock speculation. The committee will hear from the CEO of Robinhood and other financial service apps that contributed to pushing the stock price of the gaming retailer to record highs. Cornell professors Scott Yonker and Robert Hockett comment on the upcoming hearing. 

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Cornell experts weigh in on the Biden administration's immigration bill, released in concert with Congressional leaders this week.

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Sital Kalantry, professor of law at Cornell University, says that censoring social media is just one of several troubling developments related to the Indian government’s recent crackdown on free speech.

International

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Ian Kysel, professor of law and co-director of the Asylum and Convention Against Torture Appellate Clinic, and Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law, comment on President Biden's new immigration executive orders.

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Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law at Cornell Law School, says a new Department of Labor rule will require employers to pay significantly higher wages for H-1B and other foreign national employees. 

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Mabel Berezin, professor of sociology at Cornell University and an expert on international populism and fascism, weighs in on the threats to democracy presented by President Trump and his allies as the November 2020 is certified this week.

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Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law at Cornell Law School and co-author of a leading 21-volume immigration law series, says many people will be denied asylum as a result of a new final rule being published by the Trump administration's Departments of Justice and Homeland Security. 

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