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- Border Fiasco Ensures Tight Mid-Term Races
In 2019, former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said that the first thing he did when he arrived at his office was to check the previous day’s border apprehension totals. Under 1,000 was, Johnson said, “a relatively good day,” and over 1,000 was “a relatively bad number” because that “overwhelms the system.” Imagine then ...
- Drought, Border Surge Incompatible
Plumes from the Dixie Fire, Plumas County, Calif., July 22, 2021. The federal government’s U.S. Drought Monitor indicates that nearly half the nation is suffering from abnormally dry drought conditions. States in the West are the most adversely affected, but parts of the Midwest and the East are classified as experiencing extreme, severe or ...
- Biden’s DOJ Sides w/Trump Era Rule Change
Dear All: As expected Congress is up to its eyeballs in spending bills, from the $3.5 trillion social spending bill to more modest ones that fund various departments and agencies. Notwithstanding these legislative train wrecks, some interesting developments occurred on the immigration front this week. Biden Administration Defends Trump’s H-1B Wage Rule In January 2021, former President Trump’s ...
- The Truth About Reconciliation
Dear All, I’ll begin with a shout out to the twenty or so tech worker activists who protested in front of Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren’s San Jose office on July 11th. They chanted, carried banners, and spoke to the press thus reminding Lofgren, and other elected officials, that voters are not happy with the work they’re doing. ...
- Biden Administration Rejects Student Visa Time Limits
In a move consistent with the Biden administration’s walk back of former President Donald Trump’s tougher immigration actions and guidelines, the Department of Homeland Security announced that it would not pursue time limits on student F-1 visas. Like virtually all of the dozens of visas available to foreign nationals through the federal government, the F-1 visa is ...
- Hmm, Mr. Anderson, You Disappoint Me. . .
Dear All: I’ll begin by saying thank you to those who submitted statements to be read into the record for last week’s House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on Immigration chaired by Silicon Valley’s sweetheart, Rep. Zoe Lofgren. The hearing titled “Oh, Canada! How Outdated US Immigration Policies Push Top Talent To Other Countries” was ultimately postponed to a ...
- Big Tech Green Card Giveaway Bill is Back!
Dear All: I would like to begin by highlighting an article that was shared with me by one of our activists. The article revolves around an Indian IT staffing firm pleading guilty to H-1B fraud. Unsurprisingly, not a single American media outlet covered the story. You have to follow Indian media outlets to come across stories like ...
- H-1B Wage Rule Change Delayed, Again
Dear All, The Biden administration continues to carry the water for the corporatocracy which is bad news for tech workers. Last week we reported on our Twitter feed that the U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL) will be delaying the implementation of the H-1B prevailing wage rule change until November 2022. The rule change crafted by the Trump ...
- Biden’s DOL Guts Reform, Hurts Tech Workers and College Grads
Recently, the U.S. Department of Labor announced an 18-month delay in the effective date of the final rule, “Strengthening Wage Protections for the Temporary and Permanent Employment of Certain Aliens in the United States,” mostly foreign nationals working on employment-based visas. The final rule, originally published in January 2021, will now become effective on November 14, ...
- Travel Ban Could Benefit American Tech Workers
Dear All, Many of you may have learned that India has been hit quite hard with the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. According to India’s health ministry data, the country’s tally has now surged past 21 million cases, boosted by a recent record 412,262 new infections. The number of people who have died due to COVID-19 in India ...
- Skilled American Workers Stay on the Back Burner
Dear All: Happy Friday! Well, not really, but a close friend cautioned me about what she sensed was a growing sense of pessimism on my part. I assured her that my pessimism was not only healthy, but a survival response in light of the reality that is the Biden administration and the globalist swarm of apparatchiks ...
- Biden Removes Visa Freeze, More Workers to Enter U.S.
Effective April 1, tech workers – most notably H-1Bs, F-1 visa holders that may be enrolled in Optional Practical Training work-study programs and seasonal hospitality workers – will once again be able to enter the U.S. to compete with, or displace, American workers.
- Government Silent on H-1B Visa Lottery Numbers
Dear All: The information on this year’s H-1B visa lottery is beginning to trickle in. For the 2021 fiscal year, there were some 275,000 registrations, and it is rumored for the latest lottery that there have been more than 300,000. I say “rumored” because USCIS is mum on the numbers. At this time last year, we ...
- Will Intel’s $20 Billion U.S. Investment Deliver for Americans?
Dear All: With so much attention focused on the U.S. southern border and the flood of migrants racing to get across before the music stops on the Biden administration’s immigration policy snafu, it was easy to overlook the news coming out of Intel Corporation. Earlier this week, Intel announced “significant manufacturing expansion plans, starting with an estimated ...
- H-1B Visa Comment Period Is Closed
Dear All: Earlier this week, the deadline passed for filing comments on the H-1B visa rule that prioritizes selection based on HIGHEST wages. The rule change was slated to become effective on Jan. 8 but was delayed by the administration until December. DHS opened up the rule change to public comment. The rule would have eliminated the ...
- Beware: Universities, Big Biz Endorse Amnesty
As is too frequently the case, immigration, and specifically President Biden’s U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021, is the focal point of the ongoing lopsided battle of the elite versus the working classes.
- Immigration Bill Continues to Hurt Citizens
Dear All: Outside of the weather, the biggest thing to drop on us this week was the Biden administration’s U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021. The bill is a cornucopia of bad immigration policy, as well as deeply flawed if not out-and-out delusional thinking on how best to deal with legal and illegal immigration. As the title would ...
- 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 mustering every resource we have to inform the public of the negative consequences of undoing ...
- Ruling by Executive Order Creates Bad Government
President Biden is following in the footsteps of Presidents Bush, Obama and Trump by putting immigration front and center.
- AMA – Ensure U.S. Doctors Can Practice Medicine
PRESS RELEASE Continuing High Unemployment Should Keep us Focused on Jobs for Americans, Including our Doctors 29 January 2021 (WASHINGTON, DC) – Today, Doctors without Jobs, a group which works to encourage the adoption of policies that prioritize U.S. doctors for medical residencies, announced the release of a broadcast spot asking why the Association of American Medical ...
- Biden: Un-Uniting America
Give President Joe Biden grudging credit. Few if any presidential candidates have delivered on their campaign promises with such machine gun fire-like speed as President Biden. If only the newly elected president had paused to ask himself who his kept promises are helping, he’d be better off in the long run. Someone among his confidants should ...
- Biden is out of the Gate with Aggressive Immigration PlanDear 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 soldiers. Despite an offer to “reward work, rebuild the middle class and make health care secure ...
- 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 and vision. Last Thursday a shipment of back issues of Lapham’s Quarterly arrived, and in it ...
- Biden’s Choice: His Silicon Valley Masters or U.S. IT Workers
From the instant that President Joe Biden takes office, he’ll be under heavy pressure from his base to undo President Trump’s immigration-related Executive Orders. But in most cases, reversing what President Trump has done will be easier said than done. Among the greatest challenges to Biden’s administration will be its response to President Trump’s December 31 ...
- Cruz Blocks Chinese Spy Bill
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, a conservative Republican, gave his 2016 presidential campaign a good go. Cruz announced his candidacy in March 2015, ran as an outsider, and outlasted prominent GOP rivals, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul. In the end, Cruz fell short, but based on his ...
- The Week of Suspended Animation
Dear All: America’s political apparatus is in a state of suspended animation as I write this week’s Corner. The battle wears on to claim a victor in the presidential election. I will not predict a winner, but when it comes to our issue, it’s as clear as day who needs to win. Great strides have been made ...
- Purdue, Other Universities File Lawsuit vs. DOL Rules
- Feds Announce Positive Changes for U.S. Tech Workers
Relief for U.S. tech workers who have been unfairly displaced by craven employers came late in President Trump’s first, and possibly only, term. But the well-worn axiom applies: better late than never. New Department of Labor and Department of Homeland Security regulations will tighten loopholes that have allowed marginally qualified foreign nationals to come to the ...
- VP Debate: Pence’s Missed Opportunities
When Joe Biden chose California Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate, he went against tradition. Typically, a presidential nominee selects an individual who will help him win a swing state. In 2020, that might have been Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar. Minnesota went for Hillary Clinton in 2016, but only by a narrow margin, 46.9 ...
- Newsom and the Internal Combustion Engine Ban
About a decade ago , as I was reading Jared Diamond’s “Collapse,” the questions most prominent in my mind were: How did entire societies of human beings continue over-consuming until they died? Why did a change to a more moderate lifestyle never take hold?” Of course these questions are the stuff that keeps thinking people up ...
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