The highest paid federal worker in America made about $8 million last year. Despite being the highest paid federal worker, this CEO is firing Tennessee Valley Authority workers and outsourcing federal jobs to overseas companies, even though the TVA was created to spur economic development in the Valley, not in other countries. And Tennessee ...

Never has Big Tech pushed harder for cheap labor for the rich and powerful than it’s done in the last few weeks. The latest available data show that, from 2005 to 2018, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft laid out an aggregate $582 million to protect their collective interests on a range of topics that ...

Missing from President Trump’s 2017 “Buy American and Hire American” Executive Order was an addendum that should have read: “Don’t Fire Americans!” COVID-19 has left many employers with no choice but to furlough – the politically correct word for “fire” – millions of U.S. workers. Business shutdowns, some temporary and others forever, have forced more ...

Editor’s Note: Author Joe Guzzardi’s prediction that “zero” students would be deported was 100 percent accurate. On July 15, two days after Guzzardi’s commentary, the Trump administration canceled its ICE order. __________ The Student and Exchange Visitor Program, a Department of Homeland Security unit that oversees non-immigrant students, recently announced that higher education students taking mostly online ...

President Trump’s June 22 Executive Order (EO) that suspended through year-end 2020 several temporary nonimmigrant visas that include employment authorization is a good beginning. But as the Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu would have said way back around 600 B.C., “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” The journey for true immigration ...

Immediately after President Trump appointed son-in-law Jared Kushner as a Senior White House Advisor, the fur flew on Capitol Hill. On the most basic level, D.C. analysts couldn’t figure out what the politically inexperienced Kushner could bring to President Trump’s table. And on the legal front, critics argued that Kushner’s presence on President Trump’s staff ...

If a contest were held to name the visas most hurtful to American workers among the 25-odd federally issued ones that include employment authorization, a tie would be the likely outcome. The overwhelming majority of employment-based visas mean that an American job will be lost to a foreign national or that a qualified U.S. candidate ...

A few years after President Bill Clinton signed the North American Free Trade Agreement, Rolling Stone sent investigative reporter Dan Baum out to pound the pavement to learn how the globalist-hyped deal was working on both sides of the border. When President Clinton promised during his 1993 signing that NAFTA, an agreement among the United ...

https://youtu.be/V2C1i38Exio   At a time of growing unemployment in the United States, one might mistakenly believe when it comes to laying off workers, non-citizens here on temporary employment visas will be laid off first. However, this video reveals a perverse set of incentives for the employer to retain foreign workers over citizens.

The substation at Norris Dam on the Clinch River, Norris, Tennessee, was built in 1936 and was the first in the Tennessee Valley Authority system. Time is short to the expiration of President Trump’s Executive Order that suspended some immigration, and expansionists are pulling out all the stops. At stake is employment-based visas’ short-term future, specifically ...

 U.S. Tech Workers founder Kevin Lynn and attorney John Miano, an expert on the impact of foreign labor on U.S. tech workers, examine the key clauses in the $3 trillion HEROES Act for the good, the bad and the ugly. In another reaction to the Wuhan virus, the stimulus proposal from Democrats in the House ...

For years, the Association of American Medical Colleges has predicted the United States will face a large physician shortage, and the coronavirus pandemic may further exacerbate this shortage. However, there are thousands of qualified U.S. doctors who are unable to practice. Every year, about 1,000 U.S. citizens graduate medical schools in the U.S., but don’t move ...

By Congressman Paul Gosar and Kevin Lynn If the most conservative member of Congress can partner with the director of Institute for Sound Public Policy, then there is a real chance our nation can undertake true meaningful immigration reform. Prior to coronavirus laying waste to the economy, President Trump often correctly said that we have the ...

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) said in a nationally televised interview that issuing F-1 visas to Chinese students to allow them to pursue “quantum computing degrees” is a self-defeating exercise. Studying Shakespeare and the Federalist papers would be okay with Cotton, a Harvard J.D. graduate, U.S. Army captain and Afghanistan war veteran. But educating Chinese nationals ...

Just hours after President Trump announced that his Executive Order would pause most immigration to the U.S. during the current high unemployment period, he abruptly shifted gears. Under his revised Executive Order, employment-based visas would be issued as per usual, a devastating blow to the 26 million Americans who have lost their jobs. In less ...

The Trump administration has an historic opportunity to find out, once and forever, if Silicon Valley employers are truly dependent on imported foreign labor, primarily the H-1B visa. The 2020 lottery that will grant 85,000 new H-1B visas is over and done. But imagine that President Trump did the right thing, and announced that allowing 85,000 ...

Having just spent the better part of three months in Hawaii, I found the state doing what it can to encourage environmentally sound practices. There are numerous organizations working to protect native plants, animals, ecosystems and cultural sites. Effective July 2018, the Department of Environmental Services imposed a 15-cent per recyclable bag fee that retailers ...

During President Trump’s visit to India, the host country’s Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla said during a media briefing that the H-1B visa was discussed. Shringla said: “From our side, the issue of H-1B visa was raised. It was pointed that Indian professionals contribute significantly to the development of high-tech sector in the United States.” ...

It’s rather startling that not more has been said about the suspension of flights to and from China and quarantining anyone who has been in China for a minimum of 14 days of entering a Port of Entry in the United States, as part of the effort to stem the spread of COVID-19, the disease ...

The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) has opened an ongoing investigation into an aggregate $6.5 billion in unreported cash gifts donated by foreign nations to America’s leading universities. China, Iran, Russia, Qatar and Saudi Arabia are, according to The Wall Street Journal, among the most prominent foreign countries that made gifts that exceeded $250,000 annually, ...

  The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas has, in what it claims is in the best interest of Texas’ economic growth, sided with cheap-labor-addicted employers, and against American workers. A preliminary draft of an article that the Dallas Fed wrote for the “International Migration Review” concluded that a strictly enforced national mandate that employers use E-Verify ...

Recently we found ourselves once again attacked and maligned by the hobgoblins at the Southern Policy Law Center (SPLC). The funny thing is the last time they attacked us and devoted a page on their website to IFSPP and our programs, they insinuated our then and long- serving Executive Director, Leah Durant, was a racist. ...

We recently found ourselves once again attacked and maligned by the hobgoblins at the Southern Policy Law Center (SPLC). The funny thing is the last time they attacked us and devoted a page on their website to IFSPP and our programs, they insinuated our then and long-serving Executive Director, Leah Durant, was a racist. After ...

A triumphant but low-key President Trump took to center stage Tuesday night at the U.S. Capitol to deliver his third State of the Union address. The president had recently returned from maligned Iowa where, in the Republican caucus, he smothered his two GOP challengers, former U.S. Representative Joe Walsh and former Massachusetts Governor William Weld. ...

Let’s start at the beginning. Securing an employment-based visa to enter the United States to work should be hard, far more difficult than it has been during the last 30 years. If the Trump administration is making the visa process harder, then that’s a good thing. Visas translate into jobs that either displace existing American ...

In what has become an annual display of businesses’ addiction to cheap labor, commerce leaders are lobbying the acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary, Chad Wolf, to increase the H-2B visa cap. The H-2B is a seasonal, temporary, nonagricultural visa with a current 66,000 cap, and is frequently used in landscaping, hospitality and construction industries ...

Ivanka Trump wasn’t in the Golden Globes audience when master of ceremonies Ricky Gervais delivered his scathing indictment of celebrities and Hollywood elite. Trump would have been well advised to heed Gervais’ message. Gervais urged the assembled actors to, if called on to accept an award, shut up, refrain from making political speeches that no ...

In a story that has become all too familiar, AT&T announced that it will be laying off its U.S. tech workers. Many of the displaced Americans have been employed for decades. They will struggle to find comparable jobs and may not even find employment. AT&T will replace these American workers with foreign nationals. To add insult ...

Editor’s Note: Last month, Foreign Policy  ran an article, “Open Borders Are a Trillion-Dollar Idea,” which advocated for Open Borders. So for all those who say, “Oh, no one supports Open Borders,” here it is in writing! Every point made by author Bryan Caplan, an economics professor, is refutable, and, while the piece is long, we ...

On December 17, 2019, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) announced new amendments to bill S. 386, the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act, pursuant to his negotiations with Sen. Dick Durbin (DIll.). Sen. Durbin had previously placed a hold on S. 386, citing concerns over the bill’s deleterious impact on immigrants from countries other than India. Due to the zero-sum ...