Immigration Nerds is EIG’s podcast — a weekly conversation with industry leaders to keep you up to speed with global updates, policy, breaking news, and topics that matter to you and your mobility program. The Immigration Nerds covers trends in business, culture, technology, and politics at the intersection of global immigration, from H-1B policy analysis, and congressional hearings, to refugee advocacy, and academic research.
To date, Immigration Nerds has featured guests from Airbnb, AILA, Bloomberg Law, the Brookings Institute, Cato Institute, the Center for American Progress, the Guardian, Harvard University, NPR, Politico, and many more.
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What if the thing an immigration lawyer did all month was lunch? Once a month, on a Sunday, a group of AILA DC attorneys and paralegals sits down at a restaurant chosen to match the book they have all just read — a Salvadoran kitchen for Jonathan Blitzer’s Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here, Dominican food for Angie Cruz’s Dominicana. They call it the Belonging Book Club, and since late 2024 it has become the place where people
The wage floor for H-2A got rewritten on August 3, 2026, and farm workers stand to lose up to $5.4
On June 30th, the Supreme Court struck down the president’s birthright citizenship order 6–3 in Trump v. Barbara, with Chief Justice Roberts writing that children born to parents unlawfully or temporarily present here are citizens at birth. Six weeks later, two new executive orders arrived — one narrowing who qualifies for birthright citizenship, one titled “Ending Birth Tourism.” Host Lauren Clarke is joined by Jack Chin, the Edward L. Barrett Jr. Distinguished Professor of Law at UC Davis and one of the country’s leading scholars on the 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause, to pull the two orders apart. Why the citizenship order likely fails where it stretches the “closed set” of exceptions the Court recognized. Why the birth tourism order may survive unchallenged — and why it’s still, in Chin’s words, a solution in search of a problem, aimed at an estimated 20,000–26,000 births out of 3.6 million a year. Plus: what this means at the consulate for pregnant applicants and women of childbearing age who aren’t birth tourists at all, where consular non-reviewability leaves them, and how to build a visa package that heads the question off. First, EIG partner Rob Taylor covers the week’s news: a proposal to eliminate the 60-day grace period, USCIS denials without RFEs, mandatory e-filing, a proposed N-400 fee hike, 175,000+ visa revocations since January 2025, and stepped-up H-1B enforcement. GUEST: Professor Jack Chin, UC Davis School of Law HOST: Lauren Clarke NEWS NERD: Rob Taylor PRODUCER: Adam Belmar Resource Links: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/08/ending-birth-tourism/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/08/continuing-to-protect-the-meaning-and-value-of-american-citizenship/ Disclaimer: This episode is intended for educational
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