NFAPResearch

A nonpartisan research organization focused on #immigration, international #trade and other issues related to #globalization and the economy.

[NFAPResearch @NFAPResearch]

Trump admin has made it difficult for even the most highly skilled people in the world to work in America. The denial rate for a green card for an alien with extraordinary ability nearly doubled to 46.6% by end of FY 2025. @David_J_Bier @gsiskind @SIIA_US https://t.co/zCDCtq9ogb

[Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein]

OVERLOOKED: DHS Secy Mullin said during Senate Appropriations hearing yesterday that he's "happy" to send Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Costa Rica if they will take him. Doc: https://t.co/yVx36mG4Vg Earlier: https://t.co/UjBsAYqQWk

[Steven Brown @AttyStevenBrown]

In March, in a lawsuit challenging the fee as unlawful the Acting Associate Director of USCIS SCOPS declared under penalty of perjury that as of February 15, 2026, only 85 payments proclomation fee payments have been made. Is Markwayne sure his numbers are right? That would be a staggering increase in just 4 months that doesn't seem supported by trends.

[Steve Rosenberg @BBCSteveR]

Plumes of black smoke visible over St Petersburg after overnight drone attack. Regional governor says fifty drones shot down over the region. The attack comes hours before the opening of the St Petersburg International Economic Forum.

[The Insider @the_ins_ru]

Беспилотники атаковали нефтяной терминал в Санкт-Петербурге. В городе сегодня открывается международный экономический форум

Видео: «Бумага»

https://t.co/wRlfNoJHP6

[Steve Rosenberg @BBCSteveR]

"If Vladimir Putin’s Russia had an official slogan, what would it be?" From St Petersburg, a few thoughts about the Kremlin leader, the 'spirit of Anchorage' and the prospects for peace. https://t.co/ZOuU0xyRiC

[Meryl Kornfield @MerylKornfield]

Quite the update here https://t.co/SRESXBOnYS

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

This is horrific. The Board of Immigration Appeals, having been purged of all dissenters, rules that unaccompanied migrant CHILDREN who initially crossed the border unlawfully MUST be detained without bond, EVEN IF they have been granted Special Immigrant Juvenile Status.

[Adam Thierer @AdamThierer]

Two things can simultaneously be true about this new AI security executive order:

1) This represents a reasonable governance arrangement for frontier model security and its oversight, at least when compared with the far more intrusive ideas floated earlier, like the pre-vetting of models via a formal government licensing regime (aka, “FDA for AI”).

2) This represent as significant win for the military-industrial complex and the continuing fiction of “voluntarism” surrounding its inner workings. Thanks to open-ended EOs like this, the new growing AI-industrial complex will further concentrate power around AI – in both government and industry – and lead to more avenues for public officials to exert control over not just model security, but potentially many other aspects of algorithmic development and use, including content-related matters. After all, “security” is in the eye of the beholder (and future administrations and officials).

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Truly morally sickening: that anyone should wish all of Ukraine to suffer the fate of Mariupol or Bucha. Russian occupation of Ukraine means random arrests, executions, concentration camps; the destruction of language and culture; mass kidnapping of children. All of these things have been documented in the occupied territories and continue to go on.

[AILA @AILANational]

Experts Lay Out What Latest USCIS Memo Could Mean for Those in Line for Green Cards

Last week, AILA held press briefing to break down what we know, questions we have, and what the future may hold for this memo and our immigration system. Watch here for clips from the briefing.

[Seung Min Kim @seungminkim]

WASHINGTON (AP) — US to slash the number of embassies in Africa that process visas, AP sources say, as Trump has moved to limit migration.

[𝙱𝚛𝚢𝚊𝚗 𝚁𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚢 🗽🇺🇸 @FreeTradeBryan]

Donald Trump, May 2025: “I'm not looking to make T-shirts, to be honest. I'm not looking to make socks. We are looking to do chips and computers and lots of other things.”
Brooke Rollins a year later: We’re looking to make T-shirts and socks. 🪡

[Ukraine Control Map @UAControlMap]

Daily Ukraine map thread for Sunday 31st May 2026

Five months into 2026, and it's going better for Ukraine than anyone could possibly have hoped. With Russian forces pushed mostly out of the Kupiansk area, and Ukrainian reinforcements being brought in on the Hulyaipole / Dnipropetrovsk front to push back, things have very much stabilised across the front. Few areas of contention - Russian forces do appear to be grinding through Kostyantynivka, but that's all it is - grinding through superior numbers and deaths. Russian forces have lost positions in the Dnipropetrovsk / W Donetsk area, as well as west Zaporizhia, and near Lyman. There's a few other areas that Ukraine has taken territory back too and secured positions, such as in the Luhansk direction north of Lyman, or near Zelenyi Hai in west Donetsk, but they're being good on OpSec so it's only if you are looking at the areas you'll see what's happened or who is involved.

The deep strike campaign has a massive impact on Russia - once again, you only see the big explosions from the oil going up, you do not really see the impact that destroying AVT units at refineries has to the processing or bottom line. Russia are hiding this well, but the damage doesn't lie. Feodosia was struck again, as well as Saratov refinery, oil tanks in Matveev Kurgan, and also two huge tanks at the pumping station at Lazarevo causing shocks across the area.

The past three months of the deep and newer mid strike campaign have been fantastic - especially during May where the strike campaign well into the occupied territories really started to pay off. The short answer is that's it's not big or flashy destroying trucks and impacting logistics, but it certainly has a massive impact.

Things you can expect from Russia as this continues:

- large pushes in directions whilst they still have plenty of supply
- disguising trucks as civilian trucks
- rushing new interceptor drones to the supply routes
- a massive clamp down on footage from Russian drivers in the occupied territories in order so we can't see the losses as clearly as currently we get a lot from Russian social media
- attempts to protect routes with netting
- threatening Kyiv with the joke Oreshnik, as is standard. You can always tell the bot accounts, for they thrive on it.

Let's hope June is just as successful. We calculate if even just 20 more trucks are destroyed a day, so 600 a month, it'll have a marked impact as long as the strike campaign keeps up with it's strikes on trains and other logistic points. It's a marathon, not a sprint here - though Ukraine certainly picked up the pace this month!

[reason @reason]

Caveman calls this "fire."

But does he have a zoning variance for that? An impact study? Is it going to disproportionately impact caves that don't have wood access?

[Hamed Aleaziz @Haleaziz]

Actually, Most Immigrants Won’t Need to Leave U.S. to Get Green Cards, D.H.S. Says

https://t.co/htvcFrdn3P

[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

This is theft, plain and simple. https://t.co/S0KtdaB70i

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Awesome.

And also, for me as an American, embarrassing.

Americans should be doing our part to help in the most important fight for freedom and against tyranny of my lifetime.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

The Trump admin, both in his first term and his second term, has lost nearly every single lawsuit involving direct challenges to “sanctuary” policies or challenges to retaliation against “sanctuary” cities.

[WarTranslated @wartranslated]

A Russian military analyst says occupiers now face 20 to 70 Ukrainian drones each, making advances nearly impossible. He wraps up by wishing them luck.

[Steven Pifer @steven_pifer]

The way Trump administration has treated allies, we should be prepared for more "massive procurement shockers" like this.