{"id":484,"date":"2014-01-13T17:29:11","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T17:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cires.colorado.edu\/blogs\/prometheus\/?p=484"},"modified":"2014-06-05T21:29:36","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T21:29:36","slug":"exceptional-talent-and-us-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/2014\/01\/13\/exceptional-talent-and-us-immigration\/","title":{"rendered":"Exceptional Talent and US Immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-486\" style=\"margin-top: 10px;margin-bottom: 10px\" src=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2014\/01\/immigration.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2014\/01\/immigration.jpg 660w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2014\/01\/immigration-300x136.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Roger Pielke, Jr. has a new publication at <em>Law in Sport<\/em> on the analysis of immigration and US Soccer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawinsport.com\/articles\/regulation-a-governance\/item\/us-immigration-policy-negatively-impacts-us-soccer\" target=\"_blank\">US immigration policy negatively impacts US Soccer<\/a><br \/>\nby Roger Pielke, Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Excerpt: Issues related to immigration and citizenship have long been debated in the United States, and are reemerging as a political issue, with calls for reform coming from both Republicans and Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>President Obama says that &#8220;the US immigration system is broken &#8230; there are 11 million people living in the shadows.&#8221;1 One consequence of the broken immigration system can be seen in US soccer, where certain immigrants to the United States are deemed ineligible to represent Team USA, despite meeting FIFA criteria for eligibility. This article explains this situation and recommends several alternative ways forward to better align the intent of FIFA regulations with their implementation in a US context by US Soccer. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawinsport.com\/articles\/regulation-a-governance\/item\/us-immigration-policy-negatively-impacts-us-soccer\" target=\"_blank\">Read more \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Pielke, Jr. has a new publication at Law in Sport on the analysis of immigration and US Soccer. US immigration policy negatively impacts US Soccer by Roger Pielke, Jr. Excerpt: Issues related to immigration and citizenship have long been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/2014\/01\/13\/exceptional-talent-and-us-immigration\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 03:46:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions\/1034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}