Category Archives: Project for Immigration Reform

Fed Chair Calls Slow Wage Growth ‘A Puzzle,’ Ever-Expanding Foreign-Born Force Unaddressed

In its new study, “Tapping the Skills of Highly Skilled Immigrants in the United States,”  [...]

Countless Employment-Based Visas Undermine American Workers

Dozens of federally issued employment-based visas granted to foreign workers offer multiple opportunities to deny  [...]

Prioritizing Hiring American Doctors Should be the Standard

Outsourcing U.S. jobs to foreign markets followed by replacing local workers with foreign laborers has  [...]

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,  [...]

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  [...]

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.  [...]

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  [...]

World Population Day Video

If you don’t care to read our UN World Population Day blog, just watch the  [...]

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  [...]

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.  [...]