Skilled Immigration

Blanket visa bans targeting countries like Venezuela are now blocking even model legal immigrants from basic family visits — like a San Francisco couple known for personally stopping crimes and saving lives, who can't get the wife's mother a visitor visa to meet their newborn son. The policy can't distinguish between bad actors and exactly the kind of people America's immigration system should welcome. It's a stark illustration of how blunt enforcement tools are colliding with the case for skilled, law-abiding immigration that has long been central to American competitiveness.