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- Record Immigration Means More Job Competition for Americans
A new report that drew from Census Bureau and Department of Homeland Security data found that in 2016’s first six months, 1.03 million legal and illegal immigrants arrived in the United States. The Washington, D.C.-based, nonpartisan Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) extrapolated the 1.03 million and concluded that newly settled immigrants for all of 2016 ...
- Gutierrez Duplicitous on DACA
There is a joke that goes, “how can you tell when a politician is lying? Answer: When his lips are moving!” Last Tuesday I attended a protest outside the Capitol building sponsored by Casa De Maryland and the very misguided Service Employees International Union (SEIU.) I would say somewhere north of 2,000 protesters showed up ...
- Long Haul Trucker Describes America’s Decline: Excess Development and Immigration
Finn Murphy offers us a striking example of a unique person cutting his own deal about how to live his life not patterned by his upbringing environment or his family’s economic or social status. His story in his book published by WW Norton in 2017 called “The Long Haul” tells of his evolution as the child ...
- Cotton’s Rise and the Fate of Raise
Freshman Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas has found himself in perhaps a meteoric rise in the Trump Administration. With the palace intrigue of the White House at a fever pitch, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has reportedly been on the chopping block for quite some time. CIA Director Mike Pompeo is assumed to be his ...
- Physicians, Residents and Foreigners Oh My!
I was catching up on reading a stack of newspapers that had piled up while pondering what to write for this week’s blog when the answer leapt out at me from the front page of the Sunday local Lancaster, Pennsylvania newspaper. Front and center was an article entitled DOCTORS WITHIN BORDERS. Since 2006, 7,000 Cuban doctors ...
- Cuban, International Doctors Come to U.S. – American Doctors Can’t Practice
I was catching up on reading a stack of newspapers that had piled up while pondering what to write for this week’s blog when the answer leapt out at me from the front page of the Sunday local Lancaster, Pennsylvania, newspaper. Front and center was an article about more than 240 Cuban doctors who have ...
- Economic Growth Fueled By Continued Massive Immigration Equals Certain Eventual Disaster
As Kevin Lynn’s 11/7 op ed entitled “Citizenship for Sale with EB5 Visa” tells us, virtually anyone can become a US citizen by paying $500,000. The ways for entering the US legally and illegally have multiplied and the whole system is in need of serious reform. By maintaining present annual additions of legal and illegal aliens ...
- Citizenship For Sale with EB-5 Visa
The American visa system is a complex beast, built seemingly to confuse American and immigrant alike. It is also crafted in ways to make them easily exploitable by those who would “help stimulate our economy,” a phrase which is synonymous with corporations lining their pockets. We’ve discussed at length the abuses of the H1-B Visa, a ...
- A Tale of Two Californias, and Our Immigration System
In a recent conference on the economic state of California, historian and commentator Victor Davis Hanson spoke on the consequences of our flawed immigration system. He remarked on the hypocrisy of Silicon Valley tech moguls, who preach on income equality and immigration from their ivory towers while the working class suffers. The elites of California, ...
- E-Verify Bill Finds Victory in Committee
On October 25th, 2017 the House Judiciary Committee approved Rep. Lamar Smith’s (TX) Legal Workforce Act. The bill would mandate the usage of the E-Verify system, currently used by the federal government to electronically verify whether potential employees are legally authorized to work in the United States. Private companies are currently free to enroll in ...
- Interview with Refugee Watchdog Ann Cocoran
On October 24, 2017 we sat down to talk with Ann Cocoran, head of refugee watchdog site Refugee Resettlement Watch. We wanted to learn from her how our the program for resettling refugees in the United States has been bastardized to ensure a steady stream of cash per head continues year after year. For ten ...
- Immigration Deja Vu
In 1990, a bipartisan commission was formed in Congress in order to critically address our Immigration system, and what could be done to reform it. The commission was chaired by civil rights leader and Texas’ first female representative in Congress, Barbara Jordan. Jordan unfortunately died in 1996, but the full report and recommendations was published ...
- On Immigration & Citizenship
I read with great interest an article in the October Harper’s entitled A Sport And A Passport. The author presented to the reader a partial transcript of an interview conducted by Swiss authorities that was part of process to gain Swiss citizenship. You see, the process of getting a Swiss passport differs from the United States ...
- Interview with Paul Clark Environmental Scientist On The Topic of Overpopulation and Immigration
Paul Clark, Environmental Scientist recently published a book entitled, Pandora’s Green Box, wherein he discusses the feckless nature of the enironmental movement in the United States because it will not address the issue of population and to a greater extent, unbridled immigration. The 40 minute interview with Paul will challenge the listener to awake to the impact ...
- It’s Time to R.A.I.S.E. The Stakes With DACA
Immigration in the United States is a difficult issue to address both politically and emotionally. Immigration has allowed for millions to become a part of this great nation, but it has also effected many others in negative forms. Corporate entities abuse our immigration laws to replace Americans with underpaid, and in many cases illegal, foreign ...
- Automation is a Grim Reminder of America’s Looming Labor Crisis
Someone I met recently told me about his recent conversations with some senior McDonald’s Corporation officials who advised him that they intend to automate their over 14,000 US stores as rapidly as possible. Each store he was told typically has a crew of 13 to 15 employees now. When fully automated, each store will only need TWO. ...
- Harvey in Houston Shows Climate Change Will Rock Us Like a Hurricane
The United States is facing one of the worst hurricane seasons it has had in decades. With the triple threat of hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and now Maria (with Jose on the way as well,) damage levels are already stacking into the billions. Even now, Puerto Rico’s power grid has been decimated, and thousands are in ...
- Press Conference on Black Immigrant Rights Followed by A Stunning Question
This is a video of a press conference held during the Annual Legislative Conference of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation. It would have seemed that the panel composed of three congresswomen and one non profit director was more than happy to serve the needs of foreigners who happen to be black over serving the needs of ...
- Dr. Marek Chodakiewicz Discusses a Range of Issues From Immigration in Eastern Europe to The Cult of Diversity in The United States
Last week I had the pleasure of sitting down with Dr. Marek Jan Chodakiewicz who is a professor of history and holds the Kosciuszko Chair of Polish Studies at the Institute of World Politics. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Between Nazis and Soviets: Occupation Politics in Poland; Intermarium: The Land ...
- Kevin Lynn Interviewed by Robert Stark of The Stark Truth
Kevin Lynn Interviewed by Robert Stark of The Stark Truth
- Interview: Dr. Ron Hira on the H1-B Visa Program
I had the distinct pleasure of sitting down with Dr. Ron Hira, associate professor of public policy at Howard University, author and expert on the H-1B visa program. His recent book, Outsourcing America, examines the economic and policy implications of the offshoring of high-skilled jobs. Dr. Hira has testified before Congress on offshoring and is ...
- Don’t Wall Us In
Ever since Donald Trump announced his presidential run in 2015, he has promised his supporters a “big, beautiful wall” stretching the border of the United States and Mexico, as a means to stop illegal immigrants from entering the country. He has recently called on the government to initially fund the wall, insisting that Mexico will ...
- With DACA Decision Trump Demonstrates He Is Learning The Ropes
“President Donald Trump has decided to end the Obama-era program that grants work permits to undocumented immigrants who arrived in the country as children, according to two sources familiar with his thinking. Senior White House aides huddled Sunday afternoon to discuss the rollout of a decision likely to ignite a political firestorm — and fulfill ...
- Will The RAISE Act Raise Employment Prospects
Over the weekend the employment numbers for August were released; 156,000 jobs added might be okay if we are grading on a curve, but we are not. Despite the hyperbole that accompanied the release, 156,000 jobs (a number that will no doubt be adjusted downward as were June and July) underscores that our economy is ...
- Mall Sprawl Paves Away Wildlife
It has become a more common sight every year. Husks of retail giants, the likes of Sears, Kmart, JC Penney, and Macy’s appear scattered across the landscape like Elephant Graveyards. Yet with every retail store shuttered, it seems that another comes to take its place. They do not reuse the skeleton of their fallen brethren, instead ...
- What the RAISE ACT Means For Immigration And The Environment
On August 2nd, President Donald Trump unveiled a bold new immigration bill alongside Republican Senators Tom Cotton (Ark.) and David Perdue (Ga.) at the White House. The bill, known as the Reforming American Immigration for Strong Employment Act or “RAISE,” proposes that the United States cut down on immigration by at least 50 percent by ...
- Coffee House Clash Boils Over Into Underlying Immigration Issues
Last week the Los Angeles Times covered a story on a neighborhood known as Boyle Heights in Los Angeles that is as alarming as it is ironic. The crux of the story entitled Vandal Targets Coffee Shop at Center of Anti-Gentrification Protests in Boyle Heights is an ongoing battle between a group of residents fighting ...
- General Motors CEO calls for more American STEM workers, coders
The city of Detroit, Michigan was once seen as a beacon of American industry for being the center of automotive production for the country. As our economy worsened, the “Motor City” felt the unfortunate effects of American outsourcing and downsizing. It has only recently begun showing the flicker of a recovery, as automotive companies like ...
- IT Workers Stage “You’re Fired” Protest Outside the Whitehouse
This Monday we attended the “You’re Fired!” protest outside of the White House in Washington D.C. The action was organized by Sara Blackwell, President, Protect US Workers an organization dedicated to shedding light on the abuses of the H1-B Visa program. The protest included many voices from the tech industry that felt frustrated and silenced ...
- Living in L.A. and Homeless
An article was recently published in the Los Angeles Times titled “L.A. County Homelessness Soars.” According to the Times, the number of homeless persons surged from 34,000 in 2016 to nearly 58,000 today. We at IFSPP are disheartened by the plight of the homeless in Los Angeles, and strongly believe that something should be done ...
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