Killing in Kansas Bar Put Victim’s Widow at Risk of Deportation

There's already a visa for victims. It's temporary, but it's called a U Visa.

There's already a visa for skilled workers like her. It's called an H1b Visa.

If her husband had an h1b visa that allowed both him and her to work in the US, which seems to be the case since the story indicates that she was employed as a software engineer too, why shouldn't she be able to assume that visa if her husband dies or chooses to leave the US, assuming she qualifies on her own for the same visa. Really, what about this case is extreme wrt to immigration? If you consider this an extreme case that pattern matches /hard cases make bad law/, then what would average circumstances look like and how would they differ from this?

Why should other countries care for or suffer your country's criminals? Of course, unless you meant some uninhabited island or dropping him in the water... Other than that, keep him.

It is not feasible for groups of people, but it works for special-case individuals.

Incidentally, when you hear immigration hardlines talking about how DACA was unconstitutional, I suggest you take that with a big pinch of salt. The previous administration essentially systematized the same criteria they were using for prioritizing individual enforcement decisions and while this was the administrative equivalent of a giant band-aid on an annoying political problem, I don't think there was any legal barrier to their doing so as it did not create any ew powers or positions in the executive branch that would have required congressional approval.

Unfortunately, because immigration law is so complex, arbitrary, and politicized, and because those subject to it are generally ineligible to vote, the quality of information in the media and public debate are abysmal. I don't blame the public for its ignorance of the topic; I've seen practising criminal lawyers' jaws sag open at the discovery that there is a essentially a parallel custodial system whose rules they knew nothing about. Most people aren't aware, for example, that someone picked up on an immigration violation can be detained for up to 6 months without a hearing - and that 6 months is not written anywhere in the law, but was the interim choice of a court faced with a law that doesn't provide for hearings in some cases, and a constitution that requires them.

If the person doesn't want to apply for Green Card (Permanent Resident), then he/she are considered a temporary high skilled worker.

If they do apply, then yes. They are 'immigrants' until they get naturalized, aka, become us citizens, as their intent is to immigrate in the us.

In comparison, holders of F-1 (student visas), B-1 (business visas), are not considered immigrants, as they are supposed to return to their own countries after finishing their studies/work/visiting.