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Public policy nonprofit releases report on CHIPS and Science Act, cautions against hiring guest workers to fill jobs
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- MS-13 members accused of stabbing 16-year-old 100 times, setting body on fire
Mugshots for MS-13 gang members charged with murder this week: Jose Hernandez-Garcia, Christian Martinez-Ramirez, Jose Ordonez-Zometa, Kevin Rodriquez-Flores, Jonathan Castillo-Rivera. (Prince Georges County Police Department) Maryland police say five MS-13 gang members stabbed one of their own 100 times and drove the body to Virginia where they set it on fire. The victim of the brutal attack was ...
- Open Letter to President Trump – STOP DISPLACING SKILLED U.S. WORKERS!
March 15, 2019 The President The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC 20500 Subject: Meeting Request Dear Mr. President: During your presidential campaign, you said that your top priority was to put America and Americans first when it comes to jobs and immigration. This is why I, along with enough citizens to ensure your victory, voted for you. So it was ...
- OPT: Gateway to Cheap Labor Dependence
Americans need to know about a couple of little-known programs that allow foreign students on F-1 visas to get tax-free jobs. They’re “little known” to Americans being injured by the programs, but not to the businesses and F-1s exploiting the windfall. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) website boasts: “The United States allows eligible international ...
- Donald Trump’s Achievement on Immigration Issues: ZERO
It is now clear that Trump isn’t waiting for a better moment. This was not an anomaly. It’s not an accident. After he signed his third spending bill with no wall funding, which he claims to need, all sentient beings were forced to conclude that the president has no intention of ever doing anything we wanted on immigration. In ...
- Trump Raises Voters’ Wages with Tight Labor Market
Goldman Sachs says blue-collar and middle-class wages jumped by four percent in the last 12 months — after discounting inflation — and are likely to keep growing in President Donald Trump’s “Hire American” economy. Trump’s low immigration “tight labor market” policy played a key role, the report acknowledged: “Even if job growth slows as the labor ...
- Wells Fargo CEO Grilled for Outsourcing American Jobs to India
Wells Fargo CEO Tim Sloan was grilled during a congressional hearing this week for the multinational corporation’s outsourcing scheme that has left thousands of Americans out of work. Last year, Wells Fargo executives announced that about 26,500 employees at the company would be laid off after years of the corporation’s outsourcing and offshoring of American jobs ...
- Mexican top cop: security is deficient throughout country
published 2019-03-12 16:58:50 by MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s top security official says that “security is deficient in almost the whole country,” after a large group of migrants went missing in northern Mexico. Public Safety Secretary Alfonso Durazo says the number of men pulled off a bus last week in the border state of Tamaulipas has been ...
- 2,287 Migrants in Quarantine for Communicable Disease Outbreaks
The thousands of migrants amassed at the U.S. southern border with Mexico present countless challenges to the federal agencies tasked to process them, including dealing with those who are sick with highly contagious diseases. Reuters reported that as of March 6, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reports that some 50,000 migrants are in federal detention and ...
- Senators seek briefing on journalist, activist surveillance
WASHINGTON – Top lawmakers on the Senate Finance Committee are requesting an unclassified briefing on a database kept by Customs and Border Protection that tracked journalists and others in a large migrant caravan last fall. The committee’s chairman, Republican Chuck Grassley of Iowa, and its ranking Democrat, Ron Wyden of Oregon, sent a letter Monday to ...
- Trump to request $8.6B in wall funding in ‘tough’ budget request, setting up congressional showdown
President Trump will soon formally seek a total of $8.6 billion for border wall funding from Congress as part of the White House’s upcoming budget proposal for the next fiscal year, sources tell Fox News, although the aggressive request faces all-but-certain rejection in Congress amid a growing crisis at the southern border. According to a source ...
- 9th Circuit rules asylum applicant has right to go before judge, setting up Supreme Court showdown
In a major break from another key appellate court, the San Francisco-based 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday ruled that a Sri Lankan man who failed his initial asylum screening has the constitutional right to go before a judge — threatening to further clog the immigration court system with tens of thousands of similar claims ...
- 1 Million Migrants Flooding into U.S. Is a Crisis
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told Sean Hannity on Fox News that the United States is being “flooded” with people coming across the U.S. border with Mexico, and it is indeed a “crisis.” “If this is not a crisis, what the hell would be?” Graham said in the interview, which comes ahead of the Senate’s vote on ...
- Government kept tabs on journalists, ‘instigators’
published 2019-03-07 12:30:52 by FILE – This Nov. 25, 2018 file photo shows migrants near the Chaparral border crossing watch clashes with U.S. border agents, seen from Tijuana, Mexico. A San Diego TV station says the U.S. government ran an operation to screen journalists, activists ...
- How to Create Amazon-Size Job Numbers in your City
Much media coverage has been given to Amazon’s search for a U.S. city to establish a second headquarters. After much fanfare and anticipation, including the hope of politicians in the large Midwestern city where I live, Amazon, in November 2018, decided to “split” its second headquarters between two cities: Arlington, Virginia (the Washington, D.C. metroplex ...
- 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. jobs, ostensibly to obtain hands-on work experience in their chosen fields. To its critics, however, the ...
- Data: Foreign Workers Continue Making Significant Job Gains over Americans
Foreign workers are continuing to make significant employment and job gains over native-born Americans, newly released Bureau of Labor Statistics data reveals. In December 2018, foreign-born worker employment increased 5 percent compared to the same time last year, adding an additional more than 1,300 workers. Meanwhile, native-born Americans saw an employment increase of only 1.2 percent ...
- Ruling Class Doesn’t Want Legal Immigration Questioned
Columnist Michelle Malkin says the “establishment Republican ruling class” does not want American citizens questioning the country’s legal immigration system, wherein more than 1.2 million legal immigrants are admitted every year. A recent study by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) revealed how so-called “highly skilled” foreign graduates taking coveted U.S. white collar jobs are far ...
- The Swamp Swallows Donald Trump on Immigration
Robert Stark talks to Kevin Lynn about the swamp swallowing Donald Trump on immigration. Kevin Lynn is executive director of Institute for Sound Public Policy and founder of US Tech Workers and Doctors without Jobs. IFSPP exists to protect American workers from unemployment and wage suppression caused by unfair labor and trade practices, including importation of large numbers of foreign workers who are subject ...
- Cartel Gunmen Ambush Mexican Border City Police Chief
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila – A team of cartel gunmen riding in two taxi cabs tried to kill the police chief in this border city. The official was not injured in the attack. The attack took place this week in Piedras Negras near the Eden neighborhood when Police Director Jaime Alejandro Macias Caldera was riding in a ...
- GOP Senators Push Green Card Reward for Indian Visa Workers
GOP Sen. Kevin Cramer is leading a drive to reward 300,000 Indian visa workers for taking college graduate jobs from at least 200,000 young middle aged or older American graduates. Via Twitter, the North Dakota Senator is pushing the “Fairness for High Skilled Immigrants Act,” which was also championed by former GOP Rep. Kevin Yoder until he ...
- Hanoi Postcard: Vietnam tames media invasion but sees upside
prev In this Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019, photo, Peter Wang of Taiwan’s Eastern Broadcasting Company, poses for a photo at the international media center in Hanoi, Vietnam. In welcoming more than 2,600 foreign journalists, Vietnam has a unique ...
- University of Wisconsin Hosts Event Comparing Migrant Crisis to Nazi Era
The University of Wisconsin-Madison hosted an event on Tuesday suggesting that Central American economic migrants are refugees, just as Jews were refugees “during the Nazi era.” Tuesday’s event, entitled, “The Caravans, The Phenomenon That Changes The Face of Emigration,” attempted to make the argument that migrants trying to enter the United States from Central America are “refugees,” ...
- DOJ Cracks Down on Visa Violations
The U.S. Department of Justice has settled its first action involving H-1B visa holders brought under the Civil Rights Division’s Protecting U.S. Workers Initiative. The DOJ settled over allegations that a Virginia investment professionals association, CFA Institute (CFAI), discriminated against U.S. workers by preferring to hire foreign H-1B visa workers. Grassroots groups seeking to raise awareness of visa abuse ...
- Group of 90 Migrants Cross Border into Texas
Agents assigned to the Eagle Pass Border Patrol Station encountered a large group of migrant families and unaccompanied minors after they illegally crossed the border from Mexico. Del Rio Sector agents patrolling near the small border community of Quemado, Texas, on Monday encountered a group of 90 migrants who had just crossed the Rio Grande River ...
- DOJ Fines Virginia Firm for Hiring Foreigners over Qualified Americans
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is fining a Charlottesville, Virginia, firm hundreds of thousands of dollars for hiring foreign workers on H-1B visas instead of qualified Americans in its latest settlement, thanks to former Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ Protecting U.S. Workers Initiative. The Justice Department announced this week it will fine CFA Institute (CFAI) more than $320,000 ...
- Open Borders for Business Hiring
The George W. Bush Presidential Center is helping to develop a White House immigration policy, as it is urging the government to help CEOs and investors hire an unlimited number of foreigners in place of white-collar and blue-collar Americans. Employers should be allowed to freely hire foreign graduates for middle-class jobs, said the center’s recommendations. “Congress and ...
- Arizona men, Mexican woman caught trafficking 4.3M in drugs at border
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers found this haul of hard drugs in a Jeep SUV as part of three separate incidents at the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection) U.S. Customs and Border ...
- Trump’s ‘Hire American’ Policy Slows Outsourcing of U.S. Tech Jobs
President Donald Trump’s “Hire American” policy initiative is making it harder for outsourcing firms like Infosys, Capgemini, and Cognizant to readily layoff American workers and give their jobs to imported foreign workers. Every year, more than 100,000 foreign workers are brought to the U.S. on the H-1B visa and are allowed to stay for up to six ...
- CBP seizes more than $19M of cocaine found inside a pineapple shipment: officials
Customs and Border Protection announced Friday that cocaine valued at more than $19 million was seized after being discovered inside a shipment of pineapples. (Customs and Border Protection) Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced Friday that cocaine ...
- CBP seizes more than $19M of cocaine found inside a pineapple shipment: officials
Customs and Border Protection announced Friday that cocaine valued at more than $19 million was seized after being discovered inside a shipment of pineapples. (Customs and Border Protection) Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced Friday that cocaine ...
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