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Salesforce Betrays America – The Dark Side of the “Indian Era”

Salesforce disinvested in the U.S. workforce that built it into a global powerhouse and enabled it to soar above its competition.

How President Trump Can Carryout His Mass Deportation Agenda

[This is a synopsis of a two hour podcast. To see the podcast, click on this link.] With Donald Trump’s inauguration a little over two months away, the time is nigh to discuss the practical measures that will need to be taken to implement his mass deportation agenda.  [...]

Class of 2024 Computer Science Grads Face Trouble? Why?

Today’s story deals with the tough job market for American computer science graduates. One recent graduate from the Catholic University of America, Ben Riesett told the Wall Street Journal, that the “the truth is, when you start looking right now, it’s impossible to get hired.” The story points  [...]

Legal Immmigration

Labor

  • Congress, Don’t Be So America Last! Congress, Don't Be So America Last!
    Late Friday evening, the House Judiciary Committee unveiled the immigration provisions they’d like inserted into the 2022 budget reconciliation bill. It goes without saying that immigration reform has no place in a budget bill but that’s not stopping Representative Jerry ...
  • Despite Strong Case, U.S. Tech Workers Lose Tata Discrimination Suit Despite Strong Case, U.S. Tech Workers Lose Tata Discrimination Suit
    U.S. tech workers suffered a startling federal court defeat when an Oakland, Calif., jury ruled that Tata Consultancy Services, a Mumbai-based corporate giant, didn’t discriminate against fired American citizen workers on the grounds that they weren’t South Asians. The unanimous decision ...
  • Japan Gambles on Guest Workers as U.S. Poised to Double a Cheap Labor Visa Program Japan Gambles on Guest Workers as U.S. Poised to Double a Cheap Labor Visa Program
    In a surprising departure from Japan’s low-immigration history, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe recently agreed to accept more foreign nationals into the country’s labor force. As Abe’s bill moves through Japan’s parliament, promises abound to keep strict controls to assure that ...
  • Fed OPT Program Hits Record High; U.S. Worker Displacement Unabated Fed OPT Program Hits Record High; U.S. Worker Displacement Unabated
    Optional Practical Training (OPT), a temporary employment program for foreign undergraduate and grad students on F-1 visas, is the vehicle that corporate America, and more specifically the IT industry, uses to circumvent the 85,000 H-1B visa cap and to deny ...
  • After Midterms, U.S. Tech Workers Still Friendless in Congress After Midterms, U.S. Tech Workers Still Friendless in Congress
    In Kansas’ Third District, IT has a strong presence with Microsoft, Google and Amazon. Over time, since taking office in 2011, the district’s soon-to-be former representative, Kevin Yoder, fell in love with the H-1B employment-based visa. This year Yoder sponsored H.R. ...

Illegal Immigration

  • Blue Governors and Mayors Don’t Support Removing Violent Felons Blue Governors and Mayors Don't Support Removing Violent Felons
    About 70% of Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests involve illegal immigrants with serious criminal convictions on their records.
  • Cows Call Green House Gas Charges “Udderly” Ridiculous! Cows Call Green House Gas Charges "Udderly" Ridiculous!
      No longer satisfied with shutting down the oil and gas industries, this year saw the World Economic Forum moving fast forward with targeting farmers for nitrogen emissions.  Their assaults have led to push back by farmers in the Netherlands, Germany ...
  • Elections Have Consequences Elections Have Consequences
    Executive Director's Corner Dear All: It’s Saturday morning, November 5th and I will undoubtably be headed to Ronks, Pennsylvania to toss, smash and bash pumpkins at the annual Pumpkin Madness Festival. It’s also three days before the midterm elections and much like the ...
  • Administration’s Latest Blue-Collar Jobs Giveaway Administration’s Latest Blue-Collar Jobs Giveaway
    Wall Street titan Goldman Sachs released a memorandum which said, in short, that more immigration is the solution to the persistently low labor participation rate. For the 12 months ended September 2022, the U.S. labor force participation rate ranged ...
  • If Bill Clinton Says It, It Must Be So If Bill Clinton Says It, It Must Be So
    Executive Director's Corner Dear All: When asked about the need for order and control along the southern border, former President Bill Clinton in an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria said, “I agree with that. . . There is a limit to how ...