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When It Comes to Immigration Two Steps Forward and Three Steps Back

The Sorry State of U.S. Tech Jobs: Who is to Blame?

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In this brief commentary, Kevin Lynn, Executive Director of the Institute for Sound Public Policy and Founder of U.S. Tech Workers, challenges economist Jeffrey Sachs' perspectives on America's economic divide. Lynn argues that contrary to Sachs' view that education access and "upskilling" are the primary barriers for American workers, the real issue is displacement of qualified American tech professionals through visa programs like H-1B, L-1, and STEM OPT. Drawing on both statistical evidence and first-hand accounts from displaced workers, Lynn makes the case that these programs artificially suppress wages and create barriers for American STEM professionals despite their qualifications.

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H-1B Visas and American Tech Workers: A Response to Jeffrey Sachs

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H-1B Visas and American Tech Workers: A Response to Jeffrey Sachs

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In this electrifying discussion between host Kevin Lynn and geopolitical analyst Tom Luongo, the conversation unveils how the first 100 days of Trump's new administration has fundamentally reshaped global economic dynamics. Luongo passionately explains how Trump is dismantling decades of financial colonialism by ripping "the bandaid off global trade imbalances" that have existed since the 1950s.

With remarkable candor, he describes how the shift to Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) has finally given America control over its own cost of capital after generations of external manipulation.

The podcast captures a pivotal moment in economic history as Trump prepares to negotiate with China, isolate the European Union, and potentially end the Ukraine conflict—all while establishing the foundation for domestic tax cuts. According to Luongo, these bold moves have triggered desperate responses from globalist powers who see their long-standing financial dominance slipping away, making this period one of the most consequential geopolitical inflection points in modern history.

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America Strikes Back: Trump's Trade Revolution and the Global Power Shift

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Paradise Lost!

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Kevin Lynn, Executive Director of The Institute for Sound Public Policy and founder of U.S. Tech Workers, discusses bulletin board notices about refugee resettlement during a walk through Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Lynn critiques various flyers supporting refugees, challenging claims about refugee benefits, resettlement statistics, and the role of non-governmental organizations. He argues that the Biden administration expanded refugee definitions inappropriately, supports President Trump's funding cuts to resettlement programs, and suggests that student activists don't understand the economic and social consequences of refugee policies.

Critique of Refugee Resettlement Advocacy on the College Campus of Franklin & Marshall

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Check out our latest podcast where we cover immigration, job policy, trade and finance that centers around putting American workers first in ten minutes or less. . .

What the Laken Riley Act Does Against Illegal and Legal Immigration

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Did Immigration Destroy California? Interview with Mark Cromer

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Jon Feere, Director of Investigations at the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), delivers a presentation on how two work authorization programs, Optional Practical Training (OPT) and Curricular Practical Training (CPT), are being gamed by universities and employers.

Link to the full U.S. semiconductor workforce report:
https://instituteforsoundpublicpolicy.org/the-u-s-semiconductor-industry-20th-and-21st-century-employer-practices-and-policies-report/

Resource from CIS Director of Investigations Jon Feere
ICE’s Controversial Foreign Student Employment Programs Not Protecting U.S. Workers: https://cis.org/Report/ICEs-Controversial-Foreign-Student-Employment-Programs-Not-Protecting-US-Workers

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Jon Feere Presents - Optional Practical Training & Foreign Students

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Former Intel engineering technician and veteran Steve Peralta from Phoenix, Arizona, discusses the credential inflation at Intel, Micron Technology, other semiconductor companies, and American universities that denies educational and promotional opportunities for Americans while allowing foreign engineering technicians, who have fewer qualifications, the ability to be hired, promoted, and trained to become engineers.

Watch the entire webinar with all the panelists: https://youtu.be/VVTW43GtWo4

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Former Intel Worker Steve Peralta Presents - Credential Inflation in the Semiconductor Industry

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Kevin Lynn, Executive Director of the Institute for Sound Public Policy, weighs in and gives greater insight into the workings of the H-1B Visa Program. This was part of a webinar on the labor practices of the semiconductor industry.

Watch the entire webinar with all the panelists: https://youtu.be/VVTW43GtWo4

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The H-1B Visa, Your Replacements are Here

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How can the next Trump administration deport 40 million illegal aliens?

@8usc12 discusses with us how it can be done.

Watch. . .

For those looking for synopsis, we created a two-page point paper:
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How President Trump Can Carryout His Mass Deportation Agenda

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Have you ever wondered how the U.S. companies went from playing a dominant role in the development and manufacture of semiconductors to lagging behind Asian companies like TSCM and NVIDIA? Brian Dan-Ding answers that question well as makes a few suggestions for industrial policy that can restore America's leadership role.

Brian Dan-Ding, Research Analyst at the Institute for Sound Public Policy delivers the presentation on our much anticipated report on labor practices of the semiconductor industry.

Brian's research focuses on the U.S. STEM workforce, high-skilled employment, and guest workers. He earned his bachelor’s degree in public policy and history from Rutgers University-New Brunswick in 2023. He continues to collaborate on these issues with Rutgers University Public Policy Professor and mentor Hal Salzman. This policy report is adapted on behalf of the Institute for Sound Public Policy from the honors thesis research Brian conducted while at Rutgers.

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Link to our U.S. semiconductor workforce report:
https://instituteforsoundpublicpolicy.org/the-u-s-semiconductor-industry-20th-and-21st-century-employer-practices-and-policies-report/

To watch the the full webinar that includes presentations from the other panelists, click on the below:
https://youtu.be/VVTW43GtWo4

The U.S. Semiconductor Industry - Employer Practices in the 20th and 21st Centuries

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Dr. Pamela Denise Long talks about past precedents that can be used to craft a native-born American labor sourcing plan for the U.S. semiconductor industry, including current laws, legal cases, and constitutional amendments.

Below are links to several resources Dr. Long mentioned in her presentation:
Mr. President: Americans Don't Need Good Vibes. We Need an America First Agenda https://www.newsweek.com/mr-president-americans-dont-need-good-vibes-we-need-america-first-agenda-opinion-1779930

The 3-Point Plan to Unite America: https://static-gcs.edit.site/users-files/9dc521403e3792a3774ccfd69672a2b8/the-3-point-plan-to-unite-america_final_tm-and-c(2).pdf?dl=1

Back of the Hiring Line: A 200-year History of Mass Immigration, Employer Bias, and Depression of Black Wealth www.backofthehiringline.com

Emancipation Reclamation: The 1924-65 immigration reductions that propelled African Americans into the Great Migration and the middle-class
https://www.flipsnack.com/696EBECC5A8/1924-print-0902-final-10/full-view.html

The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/379692379_The_National_Environmental_Policy_Act_NEPA_An_Ignored_Tool_for_Anti-Racist_Practices

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Dr. Pamela Denise Long Presents - A Plan for Native Born Labor Sourcing

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The Department of Health & Human Services demands Med Schools Teach Nutrition: "Master The Language Of Prevention"

As someone from a family of doctors & nurses and as a former pre-med student who nearly followed suit, I 1000% support this

RFK Jr. Demands Med Schools Teach Nutrition: "Master The Language Of Prevention"

Kennedy argues that future physicians must learn to prescribe diets alongside medications to combat diet-related illness...

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Neil Munro @NeilMunroDC ·

14h 1978328993918050632

The worst thing about migration is that politicians see it as a quick & easy fix to difficult problems re. birth rates, productivity, growth, etc.
Eg, here's a former Brit PM saying they tried to drown inflation with cheap migrants (who inflated housing costs!).
Biden's people…

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U.S. Tech Workers @USTechWorkers ·

10h 1978388923601617109

FHA loans were designed to expand American homeownership, not extend taxpayer-backed credit to those with no guaranteed right to remain. It’s amazing this was even a policy.

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Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes ·

14 Oct 1978053178919653726

Illinois Lawmakers discover Democrats laundered over $1 billion dollars to “Politically connected NGOs”

“A staggering amount of taxpayer money, over a billion dollars, that's being funneled into political connected non-government organizations or NGOs — No transparency. NGOs…

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Tom Luongo (Head Sneetch) @TFL1728 ·

14 Oct 1978093505529413748

This man represents the King.

This is the best data point yet that @EMBurlingame is right, that the King accepted Trump's terms of surrender, but is trapped and that Trump is moving to restore the Monarchy.

Let's watch this play out.

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Tom Luongo (Head Sneetch) @TFL1728 ·

14 Oct 1978069918969987363

This represents a sea change in the attitudes on Wall St., which has done nothing but 'invest' in wealth extraction through real estate for decades.

My call that this timeline we're on started with Wall St. and the Fed through Jerome Powell's 'stealth tightening' through the…

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U.S. Tech Workers @USTechWorkers ·

14 Oct 1978114322195730934

It was a fantastic opportunity to deliver a lecture on how American STEM graduates are negatively impacted by legal immigration and visa policy to the @PennStateGOP College Republicans chapter last night. Really appreciated the receptivity and energy in the room.

It shouldn't…

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Penn State College Republicans @PennStateGOP ·

9 Oct 1976313011301384620

Come hear Kevin Lynn speak at Willard 10/13! He is the Executive Director of the Institute for Sound Public Policy and founder of U.S. Tech Workers. He will be covering how work visas and legal immigration are negatively affecting your job opportunities.

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Tom Luongo (Head Sneetch) @TFL1728 ·

12 Oct 1977358883048890767

@loony_not Yes... absolutely. You rebuild society by rebuilding the food supply from the ground up. Local farmers, local butchers, local grain mills. Local markets.

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12 Oct 1977352990873788820

@Meray140 We'll support open borders for labor when Microsoft supports open borders for software.

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