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UC Considering Hiring Foreign-Born Students without Valid Work Permits

A Los Angeles Times news story revealed that the University of California intends to hire illegal alien students even though they don’t have employment authorization documents, a brazen immigration law violation. To defend their prospective  [...]

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UC Considering Hiring Foreign-Born Students without Valid Work Permits

A Los Angeles Times news story revealed that the University of California intends to hire illegal alien students even though they don’t have employment authorization documents, a brazen immigration law violation. To defend their prospective lawless action, the UC regents fell back on wokeness, saying they were motivated  [...]

Is Current Immigration Policy Helping to Foster a Civil Society?

Dear All: The past two weeks have supplied an embarrassment of riches in the form of stories that a few years ago would have been fodder for the tabloids versus an accounting of actual events.  Case in point is the exuberance of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary,  [...]

Migrant Invasion Angers Chicago’s Black Citizens

Newly sworn-in Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson faces the unenviable tasks of reducing the city’s soaring crime, solving widespread homelessness and restoring decaying schools overcrowded with underperforming pupils. The Chicago Police department reported that the 2021 homicide total hit 800, a 25-year high. An estimated 66,000 residents are homeless;  [...]

Legal Immmigration

  • Senate Seeks to Reward Wealthy Foreign Investors with Citizenship-for-Sale Green Cards Senate Seeks to Reward Wealthy Foreign Investors with Citizenship-for-Sale Green Cards
    While Congress is focused on impeachment, impeachment and more impeachment drama, a proposed behind-the-scenes bill shows that the Swamp is up to its same unshakable pro-immigration agenda. Two things stand out about the Immigrant Investor Program Reform Act (S 2778). First, ...
  • New Report: 53 Million Americans Hold Low-Wage Jobs New Report: 53 Million Americans Hold Low-Wage Jobs
    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 ...
  • Trump’s Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing Trump's Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
    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 ...
  • Sen. Durbin Introduces Bad Green Card Giveaway Sen. Durbin Introduces Bad Green Card Giveaway
    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 ...
  • Response to WaPo Story of ‘Indians Stranded in India’ Response to WaPo Story of ‘Indians Stranded in India’
    Kevin Lynn responds to the Oct. 3, 2019, WaPo article, “A D.C. family stranded in India by our dysfunctional immigration system,” by Petula Dvorak. Response immediately below; WaPo article below response: Dear Petula: I read with great interest your article entitled “A D.C. ...

Labor

  • How the Mainstream Does Propaganda On Immigration How the Mainstream Does Propaganda On Immigration
    Twice a month I make it a point to go down to my local Barnes and Noble and peruse the magazine section. It’s a pricey habit but not one I am prepared to end soon as the trip always provides ...
  • The Working Poor Enter the Workforce
    Last week while sitting in the back of a coffee shop, I overheard a young woman on her cel phone feverishly trying to explain to her new boss that she couldn’t make it in to work that morning. The reason ...
  • Illegal Workers and Labor Force Participation
      The just-released March jobs report should put a spring back in American workers’ steps. Throughout the month, the economy added 215,000 jobs. Hourly wages rose slightly, by 7 cents for private sector workers. With more jobs available and wages ticking upwards, ...
  • Labor and Economics
    Jobs, Wages and Immigration Institute for Sound Public Policy is committed to the creation of a just and flourishing society in the United States: one that provides ample economic opportunities for all Americans and where workers across all sectors of the ...

Illegal Immigration

  • USTW is On the Offensive! USTW is On the Offensive!
    Dear All: With the onslaught of expansionist-oriented Executive Orders, presidential memos, proclamations and questionable appointees by the current administration in a short time, our staff and activists have been on the offensive. While many are reeling and feeling demoralized, we are ...
  • Biden’s Administration Gives ‘Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card’ to Criminals Biden’s Administration Gives ‘Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card' to Criminals
    In 1995, Democratic Congresswoman Barbara Jordan argued for immigration policy that worked for Americans; Biden should too. As a candidate, President Biden promised to freeze Immigration and Customs Enforcement removals for his first 100 days in office. Shortly after Biden’s inauguration, ...
  • Biden is out of the Gate with Aggressive Immigration PlanBiden is out of the Gate with Aggressive Immigration Plan
    Dear All: Inauguration day has come and gone, leaving those of us in the movement with little more to do than simply look agape as the corporatocracy gloriously reinstalled itself under the watchful gaze of 25,000+ National Guard and Regular Army ...
  • Biden’s Amnesty Expands U.S. Labor Market Biden’s Amnesty Expands U.S. Labor Market
    If there’s one thing that President Biden has made abundantly clear, it’s that he will grant an amnesty to an unknown number of illegal immigrants. Not a single individual knows what the exact illegal immigrant population is, and that’s the ...
  • MLK and the Dignity of Work MLK and the Dignity of Work
    Minister and activist Martin Luther King, Jr., became synonymous with the Civil Rights movement from the mid-1950s through 1968 when he was assassinated. Memorializing King’s birthday each year in January allows us to reflect on this great man’s wisdom, words ...