Below is the proposed amendment for S.386.

Tech worker Roger Ross is in DC this week walking the halls of Congress educating on the harm posed by H.R. 1044 and ways to reform our broken employment visa program.

Employment authorization for H-4 visa holders – H-1B visa spouses and their children under age 21 – may be determined soon. The decision to reverse work permission has been delayed several times since the Trump administration first proposed it in 2017. In the last five years, more than 500,000 H-4 visas have been issued, mostly to ...

published 2019-05-30 12:52:58 by John Roberts More than 1,000 illegal immigrants were apprehended by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents near the U.S.-Mexico border early Wednesday — the largest ever group of migrants ever apprehended at a single time, sources told Fox News on Thursday. The group of 1,036 illegal immigrants found in the El Paso sector included migrants ...

Give a listen to this short and energized conversation with tech worker and entrepreneur, Adele Smith.

President Donald Trump in his May 16, 2019, immigration policy speech alluded to, but did not specifically refer to, as he did in his May 20, 2019, Pennsylvania speech, Buy American and Hire American. This was surprising, since Buy American and Hire American were part of Trump’s cardinal campaign promises and addressed in an early (April 2017) Executive Order. ...

Congress needs to refocus its priorities on protecting Americans and their families’ futures.

White House senior advisor Jared Kushner’s immigration plan is a direct threat to thousands of U.S. workers with white-collar jobs. Kushner’s vision, which he’s worked on for months, and developed under the false pretense that the nation has a dire labor shortage, would emphasize skilled labor, but would further displace American workers. U.S. workers, especially ...

I received several calls this week about a meeting at the Office of Management and Budget regarding the effort to rescind H-4 EAD and thought it would be a good idea to do a podcast with attorney, author, and tech worker John Miano. John gives his insight as well as an update on his lawsuit.

Just days before Congress adjourned for its spring recess, Capitol Hill rumors circulated that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Francis Cissna was in the departure lounge, soon to be removed. Since President Trump fired Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and Secret Service Director Randolph Alles, gossip-crazed Washington expected the unpredictable President Trump would soon ...

published 2019-05-01 22:17:57 by MEXICO CITY – Mexican federal police and immigration agents have raided a train in southern Mexico carrying hundreds of migrants and removed them. The National immigration Institute says the raid occurred Wednesday in Oaxaca state. It says about 100 migrants “accepted the aid of the institute,” but hasn’t said whether they were ...

Ernest “Fritz” Hollings (Jan. 1, 1922 – April 6, 2019) served South Carolina as a U.S. Senator from 1966 through 2005. A WWII combat veteran and Gov. of South Carolina, his voting record and his writing on trade issues and in opposition to cheap, foreign labor dumping stand out. Sen. Hollings was the only senator to ...

published 2019-04-22 15:11:39 by PIJIJIAPAN, Mexico – Mexican police and immigration agents have detained hundreds of Central American migrants in the largest single raid on a migrant caravan since the groups started moving through Mexico last year. Police targeted the tail end of a caravan of about 3,000 migrants who were making their way through the ...

PIJIJIAPAN, Mexico – Mexican police and immigration agents have detained hundreds of Central American migrants in the largest single raid on a migrant caravan since the groups started moving through Mexico last year. Police targeted the tail end of a caravan of about 3,000 migrants who were making their way through the southern state of Chiapas. Federal ...

This is the audio from the almost two hour long United States Citizenship & Immigration Services listening session. The session was chaired by the agency’s director, Francis Cissna. Early on we heard from Francis Cissna; Mary Thomas, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, DOJ; Molly Conway, Acting Assistant Secretary, Employment and Training Administration, DOL; ...

The race for cheap tech labor is over, at least for fiscal year 2020. On April 10, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced that a computer-generated, random process to select enough H-1B petitions to meet the congressionally mandated 65,000 cap had been completed. USCIS also received enough requests to satisfy the temporary, nonimmigrant 20,000 advanced ...

published 2019-04-16 13:02:10 by MEXICO CITY – Municipal authorities in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas have tried to block a caravan of about 2,000 Central American migrants from entering the town of Huixtla. The Huixtla government declared an emergency Monday night and told stores to close when the migrants streamed in anyway. Members of the caravan ...

MEXICO CITY – Mexican authorities said a group of about 350 migrants broke the locks on a gate at the Guatemalan border Friday and forced their way into southern Mexico to join a larger group of migrants trying to make their way toward the United States. The National Immigration Institute did not identify the nationalities of ...

published 2019-04-12 14:28:20 by MEXICO CITY – Mexican authorities say that a group of about 350 migrants broke the locks on a border gate and forced their way into southern Mexico. The National Immigration Institute did not identify the nationalities of the migrants, but they are usually from Central America. A similar confrontation occurred on the ...

India will dominate the U.S. green card system for the next decade if legislation to end country caps passes. Right now, U.S. reps and senators are signing on as cosponsors of H.R. 1044 and S. 386. Well-monied interests, including the Business Roundtable, an association of some of America’s largest corporations, and Indian outsourcing agencies that ...

This weekend, President Trump, frustrated with her ineffectiveness, asked for and received the resignation of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen. Just days earlier, the DHS secretary said in a nationally televised interview that issuing presidential executive orders to mandate E-Verify, to end birthright citizenship and to send U.S. troops to secure the border against ...

More than 103,000 migrants were turned away from or apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border last month, U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced Tuesday, an increase of nearly 106 percent over the same period last year. In all, CBP said it apprehended 92,607 people, including 53,077 family units (a 45.3 percent increase over February) and 8,975 unaccompanied ...

Former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach says the flood of illegal immigrants arriving in the United States on a daily basis is “undercutting” President Trump’s “Hire American” economy by threatening to choke recent wage hikes for America’s blue collar and working class. Trump’s populist-nationalist agenda of increasing immigration enforcement throughout the interior of the U.S. ...

The Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) is a little known law that is starting to receive massive attention in the H-1B/L-1 outsourcing world. TVPA is a U.S. Code that addresses “trafficking in persons, also known as involuntary servitude/slavery or forced labor. These provisions are contained in Chapter 77 of Title 18 and are sometimes referred to generally ...

Kevin sits down with veteran tech worker, Adele Smith to discuss this week’s announcement by Intel that it is outsourcing much its internal technical and administrative functions to Infosys, an Indian outsourcing firm well know to employ H-1B visa holders to displace American workers. This will impact jobs around the country and in Costa Rica. ...

The President’s declaration of a national emergency at the border is increasingly looking like an understatement.  Caravan after caravan of illegal aliens from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador pushes toward our border. Mexico is warning that the “mother of all caravans” – over 20,000 people – is gathering in Honduras.  Border apprehensions exceeded 100,000 in ...

A group of immigration attorneys alleges that judges at an El Paso, Texas, immigration court have fostered a “culture of hostility and contempt towards noncitizens” by making inappropriate comments and weakening due process, according to a complaint filed Wednesday. The complaint alleges that the court’s immigration judges have made inappropriate comments toward immigrants. It said attorneys heard one judge referring ...

Donald Trump ran on the promise that he would secure our southern border when he ran in 2016. He ran on other things, too — trade, ObamaCare and ending the Iran deal. But it was immigration that resonated. No other candidate was saying anything like it. Voters loved it, that’s why they yelled, “Build that ...

Several key Republicans have declared their opposition to President Donald Trump’s order to freeze direct aid to El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, including the ranking Republican on the House Foreign Relations Committee, Rep. Mike McCaul (R-TX). These GOP critics offered the same argument as the Democrats, namely that cutting off funds to anti-poverty and law ...

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 discussion about limiting immigration. While many in Congress and private sector economists embrace raising the $7.25 ...