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By Sara Merken

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The Trump administration aims to tighten the duration of visas for students, cultural exchange visitors and members of the media, according to a proposed government regulation, part of a broader crackdown on legal immigration.

President Trump kicked off a wide-ranging immigration crackdown after taking office in January. The latest move would create new hurdles for international students, exchange workers and foreign journalists who would have to apply to extend their stay in the U.S. rather than maintain a more flexible legal status.

The Trump administration has increased scrutiny of legal immigration, revoking student visas and green cards of university students over their ideological views and stripping legal status from hundreds of thousands of migrants.

Read more from my colleague Ted Hesson about the proposed regulation.

In New York: Baker Botts hired former Paul Weiss compensation and benefits partner Ron Aizen and former McDermott M&A partner Fritz Lark … Morrison Cohen added real estate partner Aaron Taishoff from K&L Gates …  Harris St. Laurent & Wechsler brought on commercial litigation partner Rob Cohen, who was a founding partner of Taylor & Cohen … Jones Day tapped real estate partner Jeffrey Ruskin from McDermott … Structured credit partner Jon Burke joined Proskauer from Dechert. 

In D.C.: Cooley hired former U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar to lead its Supreme Court and appellate practice … Holland & Knight added former government official Nathan Sales as a partner … Foley Hoag tapped former Manatt partner Edo Banach as co-chair of its healthcare department … Best Best & Krieger hired former U.S. Department of the Interior official Michael Brain as a partner and director of government affairs … King & Spalding added former Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services lawyer David Hoskins. 

In Dallas: Former federal prosecutor Rachael Jones joined McKool Smith … Troutman Pepper Locke hired former Medallion Midstream general counsel Brock Degeyter as an energy transactional partner. 

In San Diego: Perkins Coie picked up former California Deputy Solicitor General Josh Patashnik … Buchalter hired IP partner Noel Gillespie as chair of its medical technology group from Procopio.

Across other cities: Holland & Knight hired healthcare transactions partner Christina McNamara in Houston from King & Spalding … Greenberg Traurig brought on Louisa Lynch in the UAE as co-chair of its Middle East and European hospitality group from Pinsent Masons … Greenberg Traurig also added healthcare partner Amy Schrader in Tallahassee from Baker Donelson … Finance partner Rob Morrison joined Davis Polk in Northern California from White & Case … Honigman hired Chicago-based labor partners Mary Kathryn Curry from Norton Rose Fulbright and Jennifer “Ginger” Partee from Baker McKenzie … Clark Hill added a 13-person immigration team in San Francisco from Tafapolsky & Smith, including Lisa Atkins and Christina Gonzaga … Fenwick tapped startup and venture capital partner David Horne in Boston from Gunderson … BakerHostetler picked up former Fox Rothschild labor and employment partner Phillip Wang in Seattle … Buchalter hired Los Angeles-based corporate partners Brad Markoff and William “Mark” Levinson from Carlton Fields … Labor and employment partner Igor Babichenko returned to McGuireWoods in Richmond from Smithfield Foods … Husch Blackwell added education partner Marisa De Feo in its virtual office from Saul Ewing.