Author Archives: Joe Guzzardi
Obscure Federal Program Aggressively Displaces American Workers
The federal government has created yet another immigration employment hurdle for U.S. science, technology, engineering [...]
AP Orders Reporters: Stop Using ‘Chain Migration’
The establishment media has dramatically moved away from using precise language in its reporting of [...]
Trump, Feds, Sanction 21st Century Slave Labor
“With President Trump, you never know.” Those were the exact words a U.S. Senate legislative [...]
NAFTA 2.0 Poses Major Threats to U.S. Workers
The Mexican and Canadian governments are pushing the White House to step up the North [...]
State Department Program Shuts Out U.S. Youth from Summer Jobs
With summer just weeks away, teenagers and college students looking for seasonal employment will have [...]
All Eyes on Supreme Court, Trump v. Hawaii
Observing the Swamp during the last few weeks, one trend is clear: federal courts are [...]
What You Should Know About The Central American Caravan
Weeks ago, a 1,500-strong caravan of Central American migrants headed north. Along the way, partly in [...]
Paradise Lost: Sprawl Transformed Honolulu From Utopia to Urban Mess
Let’s be clear from the outset. Travelers who have never visited Honolulu, Hawaii’s capital located [...]
More Cheap Labor Visas, Fewer American Jobs
Judging by the message Congress sends through its quasi-automatic visa approvals, U.S. businesses need overseas [...]
On Earth Day 2018, Congress Whistling Past Graveyard on Population Growth
Last month, the United Nations hosted a Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) conference in Bonn, Germany. [...]
Report: H-1Bs Not ‘Best and Brightest’
Since the Immigration Act of 1990 created the H-1B visa, the debate surrounding its value [...]
Dismal March Labor Report Deflates Jobs Recovery Hype
The March Bureau of Labor Statistics report was a disappointment with the economy adding only 103,000 [...]
H-1B Visa Opening Day Arrives – 85,000 Tech Job Giveaway as Americans Watch from the Sidelines
With April 3 the Opening Day, so to speak, for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services [...]
A Californian Warns: ‘Don’t Go West, Young Man’
California, the preferred destination for travelers who took publisher Horace Greeley’s long-ago suggestion to “Go [...]
Bay Area Campaign Targets H-1B Visas, Asks Congress to Fix on Americans’ Behalf
In a campaign that strikes at the heart of Silicon Valley hiring practices, Congress [...]
Fearing H-1B Tightening, Tech Giants Ramp Up Lobbying
Since Congress created the H-1B in 1990, IT services companies have had things go mostly [...]
Adding Immigrants to Bolster an Aging America is a Ponzi Scheme
Good and possibly great news: the U.S. birthrate continues to trend lower, now at the [...]
American Tech Workers Get Good News; Employment-Based H-1B Visa Requirements Toughening
Displaced American IT workers, and recent grads struggling to find a tech job, just received [...]
Alarming Environmental Report Disingenuously Dodges Overpopulation Link
“Disappearing Rivers,” a Center for American Progress-commissioned report, was introduced to a Washington, D.C. audience [...]
As Illegal Immigration Declines, Employers Forced to Raise Wages
A new Center for Migration Studies (CMS) report showed that between 2010 and 2016, illegal immigration [...]
Feds: EB-5 Visas ‘Rampant with Fraud’
Next month, in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, two EB-5 investors’ conferences will convene. The [...]
On Ending Chain Migration, Senate Grade is an F
Last week, the United States Senate – allegedly the world’s greatest deliberative body – proved [...]
Congress Indifferent to Puerto Rico’s Tragedy; U.S. Citizens Left in the Lurch
After an absence of more than 50 years, I returned to Puerto Rico this month [...]
Despite Wall Street Applause, January BLS Reflects Lingering Wage Woes
Wall Street hailed the January 2018 Bureau of Labor Statistics report as a big winner. [...]
Senate Introduces Bill Intended to Displace U.S. Tech Workers
In one of his final official acts before retiring, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) introduced the [...]
Trump, Congress Ignore Unsustainable Population Growth, Environmental Consequences
In the State of the Union address, President Trump proposed a four-pillar immigration plan that [...]
Overpopulation Driving California’s Affordable Housing Crisis
For months, Sacramento has wrung its hands over California’s affordable housing shortage. Print media has [...]
MLK Day and the State of the Promise
It is important to reflect on our history as we enter times of great turmoil. [...]
Dizzying Days in DC as DACA Talks Dominate
Takeaways from President Trump’s January 9 meeting with Congress on deferred action for childhood arrivals [...]
Record Immigration Means More Job Competition for Americans
A new report that drew from Census Bureau and Department of Homeland Security data found [...]