Category Archives: Labor
Sol Trujillo Has It Wrong on Immigration & Labor
In his Wall Street Journal opinion piece of August 29, entitled “The Latino Factor Will [...]
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 [...]
Finally! U.S. Tech Workers’ Prospects Improving
In 2007, the Pittsburgh-based law firm Cohen & Grigsby hosted an immigration seminar in which [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
California Gov. Brown Faces Reality Check
A few weeks ago, I turned down an all-expenses-paid invitation to attend a late summer [...]
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 [...]
Obscure Federal Program Aggressively Displaces American Workers
The federal government has created yet another immigration employment hurdle for U.S. science, technology, engineering [...]
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 [...]
More Cheap Labor Visas, Fewer American Jobs
Judging by the message Congress sends through its quasi-automatic visa approvals, U.S. businesses need overseas [...]
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 [...]
Intimidation, Rape and Slavery: The Untold Story of H-1B Workers:
Americans are increasingly coming to a better understanding of how the H-1B visa is being used [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Official Blows Whistle on Illegal Immigrants Working on SoCal Construction Sites
We sat down for an incognito interview with Blaine Taylor (not his real name), a [...]
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 [...]