Author Archives: Joe Guzzardi
AMA Wants Foreign Doctors, Not Qualified Americans
Last month, the American Medical Association issued a press release that urged U.S. Citizenship and Immigration [...]
High-Tech Companies’ Lobbying Efforts in Full Gear for Foreign Workers
A telling Mercury News story pits high-tech industry leaders against the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, [...]
Labor Day is No Celebration for Struggling Americans
Trying to figure out how many employment-based visas the State Department issues is a dizzying [...]
GOP Swamp Alligators Busy Subverting U.S. Workers
From an unlikely place, deep red Kansas, comes a plot to add to the cheap [...]
Visa Overstays Problematic for U.S. Tech Workers
The Department of Homeland Security’s recently released Entry/Exit Overstay Report on visa overstays found that more [...]
Stunning Dereliction of Duty to Protect: Feds Won’t Track Visa Overstays
The Department of Homeland Security’s latest Entry/Exit Overstay Report represents more disappointing evidence that the U.S. [...]
Refugee Industry Heads to Capitol Hill, Ignores Church State Separation
The refugee resettlement industry is in full panic mode. Some may question whether “industry” is [...]
Finally! U.S. Tech Workers’ Prospects Improving
In 2007, the Pittsburgh-based law firm Cohen & Grigsby hosted an immigration seminar in which [...]
Trump’s Wall is the Wrong Priority; E-Verify Protects Border
Once, August was a tranquil time on Capitol Hill. But that’s no longer the case. [...]
Earth Overshoot Day Offers Sustainability Lessons
Tomorrow will mark Earth Overshoot Day, the day that worldwide humanity will, in only seven months, [...]
Tighter Employment-Based Visa Guidelines are Good for American Workers
Some of President Trump’s immigration campaign promises are inching along and may never be realized. [...]
Report: Prospects for Reducing Rush-Hour Traffic ‘Dim’
Summer is half over which means that many people have taken their traditional driving vacation, [...]
Some 600 Detained Migrants Are Pregnant, Will Bear Citizen Children
In as troubling an immigration story as anyone will read this summer, between December 2017 [...]
Melting Down Over ICE
Calls to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement began as whispers, but today are a lion’s-roar [...]
As U.S. Population Rises, Environmental Leaders Ignore the Obvious
The Washington Post recently published a column titled “Why do we need more people in this [...]
Still Reeling from Maria, Puerto Rico Braces for Hurricane Season
Back in February, I returned to Puerto Rico, my home for many years, and the birthplace [...]
Visa Holders Homeward Bound? If so, a Boost for American Workers
During the upcoming mid-term elections, the 35 Senate races and the 435 House of Representatives [...]
Supreme Court Refugee Decision Tightens Labor Market
Put aside the victory lap that Trump administration is taking over the Supreme Court’s 5-4 [...]
On Independence Day, America Struggles to Remain Sovereign
For decades, Democratic and Republican White Houses have winked at border and interior immigration enforcement, [...]
After Amnesty Defeat, Paul Ryan Prepares His Exit
In a fitting boot out the door, lame duck House Speaker Paul Ryan’s amnesty bill, [...]
Permanent Family Separation, an American Tragedy
This Father’s Day, I got a call from another Dad, my friend Billy Inman. Billy’s [...]
Paul Ryan Pushing Towards Amnesty? The Latest in the Immigration Fight
Amnesty spawns illegal immigration, a talking point enforcement advocates repeatedly make. Because the math conclusively [...]
California Gov. Brown Faces Reality Check
A few weeks ago, I turned down an all-expenses-paid invitation to attend a late summer [...]
Congress Debates Amnesty as White House Quiet on E-Verify
The big week on Capitol Hill that featured a much ballyhooed immigration meeting between party [...]
H-1B Fraud, Abuse Tip Line Lighting Up
Suddenly, emails are pouring in! On April 3, 2017, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) [...]
May Jobs Report Shows Big Gains for Foreign-Born Workers
The heralded Bureau of Labor Statistics report has an interesting, but unreported on, component in [...]
2018 Graduates: Beware Jobs Market Landmines
In June, about four million teenagers will graduate from high school, and another three million [...]
DHS Shock Announcement: More Employment-Based Visas, Fewer American Jobs
Federal agencies that deal with immigration love to deliver bad news late on Friday afternoon. [...]
California Gubernatorial Hopefuls Share Same Platform of Building More Housing
California’s six gubernatorial candidates – four Democrats and two Republicans – have one common platform: build [...]
Congress’ Memorial Day Goal: Give Millions Amnesty?
In 2014, more than two years before he became Secretary of Defense, United States Marine [...]