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

When Donald Trump was looking for a catchy phrase during his 2016 presidential campaign to address the issue of immigrants entering the United States unlawfully — a line that would resonate with his supporters — he came up with the phrase “build the wall.” The reference, of course, is to what Trump advertised would be ...

ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel went on the attack against President Donald Trump on Tuesday, accusing him of manufacturing a “fake border crisis” so he can realize his campaign promise of building a wall along the Mexico border. On Tuesday evening, Trump delivered an address to the American people about the ongoing crisis at the southern ...

During President Trump’s Oval Office address, the president said his proposed wall along the United States-Mexico border would “very quickly pay for itself.” “The Border Wall would very quickly pay for itself,” Trump said. “The cost of illegal drugs exceeds $500 billion dollars a year – vastly more than the $5.7 billion dollars we have requested ...

During the Democrat response to President Trump’s Oval Office address, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) claimed that minors arriving at the United States-Mexico border are “not a security threat.” “The fact is, the women and children at the border are not a security threat,” Pelosi said. “They are a humanitarian challenge, a challenge that President Trump’s own ...

President Donald Trump told reporters he wants technology companies to import and hire more foreign graduates for prestigious white-collar jobs sought by American graduates. But Trump also used the same press conference to celebrate the rising blue-collar wages caused by his “Hire American” policies in his expanding economy. Those policies are pressuring companies to hire Americans ...

In an interview Sunday, South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham warned that the ongoing partial federal government shutdown over border wall funding cannot end as long as the “radical left” insists on reflexively calling Republicans racist for supporting immigration officials. Democrats who want to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and deride Border Patrol agents for ...

This is the first of what will hopefully be several “Tips for Tech Workers” in which we discuss best practices for organizing at the local and national level. Steve Lamb, a long time activist and an elected from an unincorporated city in Los Angeles County shares his thoughts on effective organizing with some hard hitting, ...

The media finally got the fun House they wanted — run entirely by Democrats.  And their arrival made journalists nearly scream in PC glee. They’ve been fighting President Donald Trump all alone for two years. The arrival of Speaker Nancy Pelosi and liberal media darlings like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez set off a veritable House party in the ...

President Trump is far from alone in his determination to secure our borders — according to a recent Gallup poll, Americans view immigration as the second-biggest problem facing the country today. That’s bad news for the Democrat Party, which is hellbent on opposing the president’s efforts to fix our broken immigration system, especially the border wall ...

EL PASO, Texas — Faced with overcrowding at migrant shelters, Immigration and Customs Enforcement is dumping illegal immigrants in border towns, sometimes by the busloads. In El Paso, a Texas border town already taking in dozens of migrants a day, ICE said it may have to release 500 people a day to relieve the overcrowding situation ...

The migrants gathered at the San Diego sector of the United States border with Mexico on New Year’s Eve tried to force their way over the barrier. When turned back by Customs and Border Patrol agents, some in the group started throwing rocks and attempted to push children over the barbed wire atop the barrier. “Once ...

The migrants gathered at the San Diego sector of the United States border with Mexico on New Year’s Eve tried to force their way over the barrier. When turned back by Customs and Border Patrol agents, some in the group started throwing rocks and attempted to push children over the barbed wire atop the barrier. “Once ...

TIJUANA, Mexico – U.S. authorities fired tear gas into Mexico during the first hours of the new year to repel about 150 migrants who tried to breach the border fence in Tijuana. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a statement later Tuesday that the gas was used to target rock throwers apart from the migrants ...

Migrants run as tear gas is thrown by U.S. Border Protection officers to the Mexican side of the border fence after they climbed the fence to get to San Diego from on Tuesday. Discouraged by the long wait to apply for asylum through official ports ...

When Congress reconvenes in 2019, Democrats will hold the majority in the House – setting up potential contentious legislative battles with President Trump. With control, Democrats will head up House committees, controlling investigations and handling calls for impeachment. The incoming House Ways and Means Committee chairman might also request Trump’s tax returns. Read on for a look ...

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The mayor of the Mexican border city of Tijuana claims that a federal judge ordered him to stop turning detained migrants over to immigration authorities. The judge also told him to stop speaking “freely” about the migrant caravan. Juez Federal me notificó me abstenga de expresarme libremente sobre la #CaravanaMigrante.Esto significa una total #Censura a mi ...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Kevin McAleenan said Sunday that while the recent sudden deaths of two children in the agency’s custody were “absolutely devastating for us on every level,” federal authorities had consistently followed protocol and were not to blame. McAleenan told ABC’s “This Week” that “our agents did everything they could as soon as ...

This is a rush transcript from “Fox News Sunday,” December 30, 2018. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. SANDRA SMITH, HOST: I’m Sandra Smith, in for Chris Wallace. Day nine of the partial government shutdown, four days until Democrats take over the House and President Trump doubles down on his ...

A recent report from the New York Times has provded an insight into how Facebook polices global political speech. A trove of internal Facebook documents obtained by the Times shows how the social media platform is “a far more powerful arbiter of global speech than has been publicly recognized or acknowledged by the company itself.” A Facebook employee ...

President Trump warned Friday that if Democrats do not agree to his demands to fund a wall on the southern border, he will “close the Southern border entirely” and cut aid to Central American countries — while pulling back on trade with Mexico. “We will be forced to close the Southern Border entirely if the Obstructionist Democrats do ...

Facebook is attempting to tackle misinformation and hate that its platform has enabled with a massive, byzantine and secret document of rules packed with spreadsheets and power point slides that gets updated regularly for its global content moderators. According to the blockbuster New York Times report, the rules show the social network to be “a far more powerful arbiter of global ...

FILE: An agent from the border patrol, observes near the Mexico-US border fence, on the Mexican side, separating the towns of Anapra, Mexico and Sunland Park, N.M. (Associated Press) U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) released ...

Democratic Socialist and Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) wished a Merry Christmas to “refugee babies in managers,” drawing a parallel between the plight of refugees to the Nativity story. “Joy to the World!” tweeted Ocasio-Cortez on Christmas morning. “Merry Christmas everyone – here’s to a holiday filled with happiness, family, and love for all people. (Including refugee babies in mangers + ...

FILE – In this June 27, 2018 file photo, Democratic congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reacts while talking to the media, in New York. Ocasio-Cortez is running in New York’s 14th Congressional District. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File) ...

This June 30, 2015, file photo shows a sign at the entrance to the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas, where a Honduran woman has been detained with her 15-year-old daughter for six months. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File) A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order Monday preventing the U.S. government from deporting a ...

This June 30, 2015, file photo shows a sign at the entrance to the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas, where a Honduran woman has been detained with her 15-year-old daughter for six months. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File) A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order Monday preventing the U.S. government from deporting a ...

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” White House Director of Strategic Communications Mercedes Schlapp stated that the White House’s goal is to “get somewhere between 1.6 and 5 billion” in border wall funding and it is up to the Democrats to end the government shutdown. Schlapp said, “So, at this point, ...

Relatives say 35-year-old Carla Valpeoz has been missing for over a week in the South American country. She was last seen on Dec. 12 after she returned to a hostel from a nightclub in Cusco. (Carlos Valpeoz) ...

prev FILE – In this Dec. 11, 2018 file photo, Irineo Mujica, activist with “Pueblo Sin Fronteras,” or People Without Borders, center, is accompanied by an unidentified man as he enters the U.S. consulate during a demonstration by ...