Public policy nonprofit releases report on CHIPS and Science Act, cautions against hiring guest workers to fill jobs

The ranks of a new Central American migrant caravan reportedly grew in size to more than 12,000 as of Friday. The caravan is now heading to Mexico’s southern border. Mexican immigration officials in the city of Ciudad Hidalgo, which borders Guatemala, are establishing procedures to expedite the process in which to approve one-year humanitarian visas for ...

  ‘Roma’ actor Jorge Antonio Guerrero Martínez, who is from Mexico, may have to miss the Academy Awards, because his visa requests keep getting denied (Hector Vivas/Getty Images For NETFLIX) An actor who starred in the acclaimed film ‘Roma’ may have to miss the Academy Awards because his visa requests keep getting denied. Jorge Antonio Guerrero Martínez, who is from Mexico, has ...

President Trump on Saturday promised supporters that the wall on the southern border will be built, a day after he agreed to temporarily reopen the government for three weeks without funding for a wall — but warned that “both parties very dug in.” “21 days goes very quickly. Negotiations with Democrats will start immediately. Will ...

The border fence between San Diego, Calif., and Tijuana, Mexico, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza) According to the Democrats and the mainstream media, Americans shouldn’t be concerned about terrorists crossing the ...

Some migrants seeking asylum at the southern border will be returned to Mexico as early as Friday as part of new measures announced Thursday night by the Trump administration, which hopes to prevent those with claims from waiting in the United States while their cases are processed. The policy, called the Migrant Protection Protocol, was announced by ...

Hundreds of American journalists, editors, computer experts, and videographers are being laid off from their jobs at HuffPost, Buzzfeed, Gannett, and Billboard Media, while those U.S. media jobs are being filled by cheap visa workers. In 2018, for example, U.S.-based companies asked for visas to import 138 editors, 88 producers, 221 writers, six publishers, and 347 graphic ...

The U.S. government will try to end most catch-and-release policies on Friday by sending asylum-seeking migrants back to Mexico pending their eventual court hearings in the United States, according to Reuters. The new “Remain in Mexico” policy may sharply reduce the number of asylum-seeking migrants who are released into the United States — if the policy overcomes ...

You’ve heard it before: Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. Connecticut may be in its “shame on me” moment. State leaders have made a deal with Infosys, India’s second largest IT exporter. Connecticut is giving away American taxpayer money in return for promises to create jobs. The question is: Who will ...

More than 100 gang members from El Salvador are among the massive wave of migrants that’s poured across the border in recent months, with nearly 400 illegal immigrants nabbed trying to cross en masse last week and a group of more than 100 caught scaling a wall Monday, beleaguered border officials said. United States Customs and ...

Multinational corporation Oracle America, Inc., a computer technology firm, discriminated against black American employees and women in favor of hiring foreigners, primarily from Asia and India. In a new legal filing by the Labor Department, the federal agency claims Oracle undercut the wages of blacks, women, whites, and Asian Americans at its headquarters in Redwood Shores, ...

Several months into the Trump administration, I started running a daily “Border Wall Construction Update” on Twitter, announcing how many miles of the wall had been completed that day and how many miles since the inauguration. It was always the same numbers: 0 and 0, respectively. I was immediately attacked by people in the Trump ...

Multinational corporation Oracle America, Inc., a computer technology firm, discriminated against black American employees and women in favor of hiring foreigners, primarily from Asia and India. In a new legal filing by the Labor Department, the federal agency claims Oracle undercut the wages of blacks, women, whites, and Asian Americans at its headquarters in Redwood Shores, California ...

Almost 9,000 migrants hoping to reach the U.S. through various caravans have registered for temporary asylum and work visas in Mexico but only 500 have been granted status, officials say. Mexican officials told Fox News Wednesday that 8,446 people have registered for temporary status in the county while they wait for their claims to be heard ...

Central American migrants, who received humanitarian visas from Mexico, work for pay as they clean a public sports stadium, which is being prepared to use as a shelter for migrants who enter Ciudad Hidalgo, Chiapas State, Mexico, on the border with Guatemala.  (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte) ...

Authorities in southern Mexico announced the arrest of a man described as a dangerous Salvadoran gang enforcer who was trying to blend in with the new migrant caravan bound for the United States. Chiapas state authorities arrested a man identified only as 19-year-old Almicar Orlando “N” aka “El Junior or Hell Boy” from El Salvador, who ...

President Trump on Monday challenged House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has called the White House’s proposed southern border wall “an immorality,” to explain why she is not insisting on the removal of existing physical barriers, or opposing ongoing construction of new wall projects near San Diego, Calif. Trump, in a follow-up tweet, asserted that the ...

President Trump on Monday challenged House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has called the White House’s proposed southern border wall “an immorality,” to explain why she is not insisting on the removal of existing physical barriers, or opposing ongoing construction of new wall projects near San Diego, Calif. Trump, in a follow-up tweet, asserted that the country ...

Thousands of Central American migrants, many of them from Honduras, are taking Mexico up on its offer of temporary asylum and work visas. Mexican immigration officials said Sunday that 3,691 people associated with various migrant caravans have registered for temporary status in the country, and the number is expected to grow as more people arrive at ...

Pro-American immigration reformers say President Trump’s plan to offer a work permit amnesty to about a million illegal aliens and foreign nationals could encourage more caravans of Central Americans to come to the United States at the U.S-Mexico border. In a weekend announcement, Trump offered Republicans and Democrats a plan to give amnesty in the form ...

Around 30 unaccompanied minors were smuggled into the U.S. after tunneling beneath the border wall near San Luis, Arizona on Monday together with a group of over 300 Central American migrants who then surrendered themselves to the Border Patrol. The tunnels – a few feet long – were reportedly dug by smugglers under the steel ...

A group of nearly 400 Central American migrants tunneled beneath the border wall near San Luis, Arizona earlier this week and surrendered themselves to the Border Patrol. The tunnels – reportedly a few feet long – were reportedly dug by smugglers under the steel border fence, letting hundreds of supposed asylum seekers enter the U.S, according to ...

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) demanded on the House floor on Wednesday evening that President Donald Trump re-open the federal government and end his quest “for a racist and cynical big wall” at the border. Omar blasted Trump for creating a “manufactured crisis designed to distract us from the instability and dysfunction that rules the Trump White ...

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) demanded on the House floor on Wednesday evening that President Donald Trump re-open the federal government and end his quest “for a racist and cynical big wall” at the border. Omar blasted Trump for creating a “manufactured crisis designed to distract us from the instability and dysfunction that rules the Trump White ...

High school social studies teachers now have the easiest job in America. Imagine what these teachers go through each January or February. The cajoling and arm-twisting and bonus-point dangling, just to convince a bunch sophomores to watch the president’s annual State of the Union speech and then write a report about it. WHITE HOUSE DENIES PELOSI ...

A group of 376 Central Americans reportedly made their way into the U.S. at the Arizona border this week by using short holes that were dug beneath the barrier, according to Border Patrol. (CBP Arizona) A group of 376 Central Americans reportedly made their way into the U.S. at the Arizona border this week via holes that ...

High school social studies teachers now have the easiest job in America. Imagine what these teachers go through each January or February. The cajoling and arm-twisting and bonus-point dangling, just to convince a bunch sophomores to watch the president’s annual State of the Union speech and then write a report about it. WHITE HOUSE DENIES PELOSI LEAK ...

Hundreds of migrants forced their way into Mexico by breaking the gates at one of the international ports of entry with Guatemala and are now being escorted north by federal police. The incident took place overnight at the Rodolfo Robles international port of entry when a group of migrants broke the lock at the gate and ...

Around 1,000 Central American migrants marched freely through the Guatemala-Mexico border on Friday after the gates were left wide open, with Mexican authorities standing down from confronting the caravan. The border gates were open only temporarily, but migrants – who crossed the bridge from Tecun-Uman to Ciudad Hidalgo – were surprised to find no locks on ...

An expanding group of American professionals is building support for a January 26 protest against the outsourcing of middle-class jobs via the H-1B visa program. The Protect U.S. Workers group has scheduled the protest in Connecticut, where the state’s governor is providing a subsidy to an Indian company which uses H-1B visa-workers to outsource U.S. middle-class jobs back ...

An expanding group of American professionals is building support for a January 26 protest against the outsourcing of middle-class jobs via the H-1B visa program. The Protect U.S. Workers group has scheduled the protest in Connecticut, where the state’s governor is providing a subsidy to an Indian company which uses H-1B visa-workers to outsource U.S. middle-class jobs back ...