US lawmakers write to USCIS on impact of tech layoffs on migrants

Expressing concern over large-scale layoffs in the tech industry, a group of lawmakers from the Silicon Valley have written to the US Citizenship and Immigration Services to ensure high-skilled immigrants can remain in the country even after losing their jobs.

This group of immigrants possesses skills that are highly valuable in today’s knowledge-based economy and “forcing them to leave the US is harmful to our nation’s long-term economic competitiveness”, they said in their letter to USCIS Director Ur Jaddou.

The letter has been sent by Congressmen Zoe Lofgren, Ro Khanna, Jimmy Panetta and Kevin Mullin. Lofgren has been a former Chair of the House Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.