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Harris: ‘I will Proudly Sign it into Law’

Gonzales (R-TX) releases shocking statistics about convicted illegal alien criminals that include murderers and rapists set free into the interior, coinciding with Vice-President Harris photo-op at the border.

Voter ID Supporters Losing—Badly!

GOP leaders sound ten-alarm fire alerts that illegal aliens are registered to vote, citing significant influx of foreign nationals surging the U.S.-Mexico border and flown in on Biden-Harris' CBP-One app.

Adam Schiff Won’t Right California’s Sinking Ship

Time was when a prominent member of Congress was caught in a major lie, purposely misleading his peers and the American public, he would face consequences. His own party would denounce him, the electorate would surely vote him out of office, or he might resign in disgrace.

Legal Immmigration

  • America Last Rolls on; New Batch of H-1B Workers Arriving Soon America Last Rolls on; New Batch of H-1B Workers Arriving Soon
    On April 1, employers will learn which among them will gain access to H-1B visas, and also the total number of visas each will be awarded. Now entering its fourth decade of aggressively displacing qualified U.S. tech workers, and often ...
  • Why Won’t The Senate Discuss Restricting Immigration? Why Won’t The Senate Discuss Restricting Immigration?
      Founder’s Corner Dear All, On Tuesday, Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA), chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Safety, held a hearing to “examine the challenges immigrants face in seeking lawful permanent resident status, and the need to overhaul and ...
  • Next Wave of Evacuees to the U.S. Likely to be Ukrainian Next Wave of Evacuees to the U.S. Likely to be Ukrainian
    Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine has brought devastation or death to hundreds of thousands of people. Around the globe, Russia’s assault on the Ukraine has outraged fair-minded people. Russia is 28-times Ukraine’s size, has twice its population, and its military ...
  • New Legislation Has Familiar Goal: Displacing U.S. Tech Workers New Legislation Has Familiar Goal: Displacing U.S. Tech Workers
    Like all America, Capitol Hill is focused on Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine and watching the continuous updates with apprehension. But even though Congress’ attention is diverted, its dreary business which often includes American worker displacement continues. Last week, Iowa Republican ...
  • Far From Perfect and Hardly Any Good Far From Perfect and Hardly Any Good
    Founder’s Corner Dear All Anyone involved with policy is familiar with the aphorism, “don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.” Despite many opportunities over several years to significantly reform the H-1B visa program, Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) ...

Labor

  • $15 Minimum Wage Imploding; Tight Labor Market Better Path to Higher Income $15 Minimum Wage Imploding; Tight Labor Market Better Path to Higher Income
    Raising and sustaining higher wages for American workers is impossible as long as the labor pool keeps expanding. Serious discussion about lasting improvements to the lives of the 40 million Americans stuck in low-paying jobs has to include an equally thoughtful ...
  • More Immigration Incompatible with Layoffs, Automation More Immigration Incompatible with Layoffs, Automation
    The Economic Policy Institute recently released its U.S. wage study. Titled “State of Working America Wages 2018,” the report took a critical look at income inequality in the United States and what EPI calls “sluggish wage growth” that has for ...
  • Lousy February BLS Report: Blip or Grim Omen? Lousy February BLS Report: Blip or Grim Omen?
    On second thought, maybe the United States’ job market isn’t as strong as President Trump would like the nation to believe. The dismal February Bureau of Labor Statistics showed a piddling 20,000 new jobs created. Many of those jobs are ...
  • U.S. Educates 1.6 M International Students With Winners and Losers U.S. Educates 1.6 M International Students With Winners and Losers
    Nearly 1.6 million international university students were enrolled in the U.S., according to the most recent data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Of the 1.6 million, 328,205 participated in Optional Practical Training (OPT), which allows foreign-born students to work in U.S. ...
  • Why Immigration Reform Failed in 1986: To Find Out, Do the Math Why Immigration Reform Failed in 1986: To Find Out, Do the Math
    I’m a native Californian who grew up in the 1950s when the state was truly Golden. The family album has photos with us alone on Malibu Beach. I went to college back East, got my first jobs in finance in ...

Illegal Immigration

  • Border Surge Inundates School Districts Border Surge Inundates School Districts
    As worldwide migrants continue to pour across the Southwest border, the financial and emotional toll on communities directly affected mounts. In El Paso, officials reported that, during September, up to 1,500 illegal immigrants, mostly Venezuelans but also Cubans and ...
  • Pro-Environment Platform a Mid-Term Winner Pro-Environment Platform a Mid-Term Winner
    The latest mid-term election polling shows that Republicans and Democrats are dead even. In January, the same polling firm Statista had the GOP ahead by four points. Other polls like 538.com indicate more or less the same outcome. ...
  • They’re Pulling Out All the Stops They're Pulling Out All the Stops
    Founder’s Corner Dear All, This week my typically morose demeanor became a notch or two rosier despite the spate of rather bleak news. And the news was bleak. First, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a rule change that prevents poor migrants ...
  • Happy Labor Day Happy Labor Day
    Dear All : Happy Labor Day from us here at U.S. Tech  Workers. A while back I was listening to song called Sixteen Tons and it struck a chord with me. In the chorus the lines go “I owe my soul ...
  • Our NEPA Lawsuit Moves Forward Our NEPA Lawsuit Moves Forward
    Executive Director's Corner Dear All: On August 11th, federal judge Trevor McFadden, U.S. District Court, District of Columbia ruled that a lawsuit brought forth by the Massachusetts Coalition for Immigration Reform (MCIR) against three federal agencies can proceed. In a nutshell and according ...