Immigration lawyer James Hollis was helping his wife, a teacher, pack up her classroom on her last day of school when he got a text about the Trump administration’s new green-card policy.
“Is this bad?” Hollis was asked in the message that linked to a government press release saying most immigrants would be required to leave the US to apply for a green card. By the end of the day, Hollis was besieged by more than 200 emails with questions about the shift, which he describes as pulling the rug out from green-card applications.
“Unlike some of the changes that ...