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 ...

Michael Goodwin, a New York Post columnist who began his journalism career at The New York Times, last month wrote a two-part commentary that chronicled the long, steady erosion of reporting integrity. Although Goodwin focused on the Times, his observations that bias has become common in the mainstream media easily applies to many publications. Editors ...

The Department of Homeland Security’s recently released Unified Agenda gives hope to U.S. tech workers that major, long overdue changes may be coming soon. New DHS guidelines would provide relief to American tech specialists from the decades-long onslaught of overseas H-1B visa holders, L-1 visa international transfers and foreign-born Optional Practical Training (OPT) graduates with science, ...

The Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program just released a study that casts serious doubt on President Trump’s insistence that the economy is improving, and that the employment market is strong. Brookings’ findings confirm that working doesn’t necessarily translate into earning a decent wage. Despite record low 3.6 percent unemployment, the Brookings’ report, “Meet the Low-Wage Workforce,” ...

On November 11, Chad Wolf, acting Under Secretary for Strategy, Policy and Plans at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and former Chief of Staff for Kirstjen Nielsen who served for two years as DHS Secretary, will replace Kevin McAleenan as Secretary for DHS. As his reason for resigning, McAleenan said he wanted to spend more ...

No sooner does one awful, American job-killing bill get nixed in Congress than another pops up to replace it. Such is the nature of trying to protect U.S. workers from an unnecessary wave of foreign nationals displacing talented, educated white-collar Americans from their middle-class jobs. To the specifics, S. 386 the misleadingly named Fairness for High-Skilled ...

For much of the summer, the House of Representatives obsessed over the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act (HR 1044), a bad bill that would eliminate the traditional 7 percent country caps imposed on employment-based visas, largely H-1Bs. By so doing, the bill would ensure that the overwhelming majority of those coveted employment-based visas would go ...

Last month, rumors swirled that, on Thursday, Sept. 26, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) would make a second pass at seeking unanimous consent for S. 386, the “Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act.” Previously, in July, Sen. Lee made an unsuccessful attempt to seek unanimous consent for the bill. It was a surprise, then, that Lee’s second unanimous ...

It’s an appalling reality that in the entire U.S. Senate not one single member is willing to stand up for American workers. From appointed Arizona Republican Martha McSally to Vermont Independent Bernie Sanders, possibly the world’s only avowed socialist who won’t defend his nation’s workers, none stood up against the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act, S. ...

White House insiders report that Stephen Miller, President Trump’s senior advisor and go-to immigration guy, is no longer the point man. Instead, going forward, the president will rely on his immigration know-nothing son-in-law Jared Kushner. Slight correction: Kushner isn’t quite a complete immigration dunce. He’s savvy enough to realize that some types of immigration can ...

On July 25, 2019, ten Democrats in the U.S. Senate sent a letter to Sundar Pichai, the 47-year-old Google CEO who hails from India. The senators expressed their “objection to Google’s misuse of independent contractors and temporary workers,” citing recent stories in The New York Times on May 28, 2019 and August 5, 2019. After reading ...

For some time, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been using his ample platform to sound off about population: not the world’s continuing, disastrous human population boom, but what he foresees as an impending population collapse. At a time when the Earth continues to add more than 80 million people annually – year in, year out – ...

The Trump administration is about to implement new rules that it claims will “modernize” and “improve” the Endangered Species Act (ESA). All too predictably, certain industries in Trump’s favor approve of this imminent overhaul, while environmentalists are in an uproar. Yet neither the Trump administration nor its most vociferous environmental critics is willing to address or ...

Shortly before Congress adjourned for its summer break, what it aggrandizingly likes to refer to as “constituent work days,” the House of Representatives passed a horrible immigration bill, the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act. U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), who never met a bill to expand the foreign-born labor pool at American workers’ expense she ...

shibboleth: a word or saying used by adherents of a party, sect, or belief and usually regarded by others as empty of real meaning (Merriam-Webster)   In July 2018, President Trump announced an initiative to train and “reskill” Americans for jobs. Hey, I believed him when he declared Buy American, Hire American in April 2017. Why not this? The ...

Dena Moore is a tech worker who has joined us on podcasts in the past. But today is different in that she is introducing her book, How To Be Happy, How to Live a Life of Love and be Happy. The book and accompanying workbook are the direct results of Dena having to bounce back ...

Ellwood Davis is a tech worker with amazing credentials in the area of enterprise software implementation and thought leadership. Our conversation focused on what things were like for tech workers back in the early 1990’s when he was getting started in the industry and what they are like now in an environment of offshoring and ...

July 20 marks 50 years since our nation’s astronauts landed the lunar module on the Moon in what may arguably be the greatest technological achievement of modern time. I remember where I was, as a kid, that 1969 evening watching Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin become the first humans and Americans to walk on ...

Multinational retailer Walmart recently announced that it will lay off almost 600 corporate employees. According to the Business Insider, the finance and accounting jobs will be outsourced to Genpact, described as a New-York based professional services firm. Genpact isn’t a household name. So, who are they? According to Wikipedia, Genpact originally was a business unit of ...

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Earlier this week Immigration Voice posted a press release stating that Senator Chuck Grassley dropped an amendment to S. 386, the notorious and poorly named “Fairness for High Skilled Immigrants Act.” At this point in time, the Amendment has not been filed, but it has been prepared and could be filed anytime. In light of ...

Below is the proposed amendment for S.386.

Tech worker Roger Ross is in DC this week walking the halls of Congress educating on the harm posed by H.R. 1044 and ways to reform our broken employment visa program.

Employment authorization for H-4 visa holders – H-1B visa spouses and their children under age 21 – may be determined soon. The decision to reverse work permission has been delayed several times since the Trump administration first proposed it in 2017. In the last five years, more than 500,000 H-4 visas have been issued, mostly to ...