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“If people believe the U.S. government is becoming more liberal on immigration, we may see a new wave of people… try to enter the U.S.,” says Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law. “But if the new administration continues the hard-line approach of the Trump administration, Biden will be called ‘deporter in chief,’ just as former President Obama was.”
"It will take time to rebuild immigrants’ trust in America. But President-elect Joe Biden can and must."
In September, the White House proposed limiting international student visas to four year-periods and setting up precise new procedures for extending their stay. Biden could revoke these regulations. However, if they are finalized before Trump leaves office, a new administration would have to go through the lengthy regulatory process again, said Stephen Yale-Loehr, a professor of immigration law practice at Cornell University.
“This is the first time it’s been carefully documented that the economic institutions of the tech economy are open access,” said Victor Nee, the Frank and Rosa Rhodes Professor in the Department of Sociology in the College of Arts and Sciences, and co-author of “Immigration, Opportunity and Assimilation in a Technology Economy,” published Sept. 28 in Theory and Society.
“The barriers of entry are high with respect to human capital and social capital,” Nee said, “but once you’re in it, it is an environment that is open and inclusive.”
Wildfires across California, Oregon, and Washington have forced birds to rush their migration, resulting in high rates of bird death.
Apps like the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's eBird are using citizen awareness to bring data about these birds to scientists. “There are many more citizen scientists distributed in diverse arrays than there are professional scientists or wildlife rehabilitators,” said Andrew Farnsworth, a senior research associate at Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the institute that runs eBird, a popular app for logging bird sightings.
“The power of eyes in many places is huge.”
"As far as I know, there is no basis for President Trump's comments that Mexico will pay for the wall, period," said Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration practice at Cornell Law School. "They have not in the past, and I have not seen anything to indicate a change in the future."
Michelle Fournet, postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Conservation Bioacoustics at Cornell's Lab of Ornithology, has been listening in on whale conversations for 10 years, but never before has she seen a summer like this.
Ecologists Aaron Rice and Amanda Rodewald are working with Migrations to understand how human impacts and activities affect animals and the ecosystems we all share.
Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law, says that if President Trump’s executive order is permitted to go into effect, he is not sure how it will work as state and local governments must provide aid “without regard to race, religion, nationality, sex or political opinion.”
