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Each year, thousands of students and exchange program participants enter into the United States under different visa categories. They are joined by tens of thousands who come to the country under diversity visas. Knight Chair Brant Houston discussed the programs and shared reporting tools during his Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting workshop session on April 11.
The EB-5 visa program, which has grown increasingly controversial due to its lack of quality oversight, basically gives foreigners looking to invest large sums of money in U.S. businesses a pay-to-play green card. Tim Novak, Chicago Sun-Times reporter, spoke about the program at a Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting workshop.
Mike McGraw, who currently leads KCPT Hale Center for Journalism’s investigative news efforts, spoke in detail about the H-1B and H-2B visa programs during his workshop session on April 11, 2015. The session was part of the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting's "Covering the U.S. Visa System in Your Own Backyard" workshop, held in Chicago.