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

If a contest were held to name the visas most hurtful to American workers among the 25-odd federally issued ones that include employment authorization, a tie would be the likely outcome. The overwhelming majority of employment-based visas mean that an American job will be lost to a foreign national or that a qualified U.S. candidate ...

A few years after President Bill Clinton signed the North American Free Trade Agreement, Rolling Stone sent investigative reporter Dan Baum out to pound the pavement to learn how the globalist-hyped deal was working on both sides of the border. When President Clinton promised during his 1993 signing that NAFTA, an agreement among the United ...

https://youtu.be/V2C1i38Exio   At a time of growing unemployment in the United States, one might mistakenly believe when it comes to laying off workers, non-citizens here on temporary employment visas will be laid off first. However, this video reveals a perverse set of incentives for the employer to retain foreign workers over citizens.

The substation at Norris Dam on the Clinch River, Norris, Tennessee, was built in 1936 and was the first in the Tennessee Valley Authority system. Time is short to the expiration of President Trump’s Executive Order that suspended some immigration, and expansionists are pulling out all the stops. At stake is employment-based visas’ short-term future, specifically ...

 U.S. Tech Workers founder Kevin Lynn and attorney John Miano, an expert on the impact of foreign labor on U.S. tech workers, examine the key clauses in the $3 trillion HEROES Act for the good, the bad and the ugly. In another reaction to the Wuhan virus, the stimulus proposal from Democrats in the House ...

By Congressman Paul Gosar and Kevin Lynn If the most conservative member of Congress can partner with the director of Institute for Sound Public Policy, then there is a real chance our nation can undertake true meaningful immigration reform. Prior to coronavirus laying waste to the economy, President Trump often correctly said that we have the ...

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) said in a nationally televised interview that issuing F-1 visas to Chinese students to allow them to pursue “quantum computing degrees” is a self-defeating exercise. Studying Shakespeare and the Federalist papers would be okay with Cotton, a Harvard J.D. graduate, U.S. Army captain and Afghanistan war veteran. But educating Chinese nationals ...

Just hours after President Trump announced that his Executive Order would pause most immigration to the U.S. during the current high unemployment period, he abruptly shifted gears. Under his revised Executive Order, employment-based visas would be issued as per usual, a devastating blow to the 26 million Americans who have lost their jobs. In less ...

The Trump administration has an historic opportunity to find out, once and forever, if Silicon Valley employers are truly dependent on imported foreign labor, primarily the H-1B visa. The 2020 lottery that will grant 85,000 new H-1B visas is over and done. But imagine that President Trump did the right thing, and announced that allowing 85,000 ...

During President Trump’s visit to India, the host country’s Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla said during a media briefing that the H-1B visa was discussed. Shringla said: “From our side, the issue of H-1B visa was raised. It was pointed that Indian professionals contribute significantly to the development of high-tech sector in the United States.” ...

The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) has opened an ongoing investigation into an aggregate $6.5 billion in unreported cash gifts donated by foreign nations to America’s leading universities. China, Iran, Russia, Qatar and Saudi Arabia are, according to The Wall Street Journal, among the most prominent foreign countries that made gifts that exceeded $250,000 annually, ...

  The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas has, in what it claims is in the best interest of Texas’ economic growth, sided with cheap-labor-addicted employers, and against American workers. A preliminary draft of an article that the Dallas Fed wrote for the “International Migration Review” concluded that a strictly enforced national mandate that employers use E-Verify ...

Recently we found ourselves once again attacked and maligned by the hobgoblins at the Southern Policy Law Center (SPLC). The funny thing is the last time they attacked us and devoted a page on their website to IFSPP and our programs, they insinuated our then and long- serving Executive Director, Leah Durant, was a racist. ...

A triumphant but low-key President Trump took to center stage Tuesday night at the U.S. Capitol to deliver his third State of the Union address. The president had recently returned from maligned Iowa where, in the Republican caucus, he smothered his two GOP challengers, former U.S. Representative Joe Walsh and former Massachusetts Governor William Weld. ...

Let’s start at the beginning. Securing an employment-based visa to enter the United States to work should be hard, far more difficult than it has been during the last 30 years. If the Trump administration is making the visa process harder, then that’s a good thing. Visas translate into jobs that either displace existing American ...

In what has become an annual display of businesses’ addiction to cheap labor, commerce leaders are lobbying the acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary, Chad Wolf, to increase the H-2B visa cap. The H-2B is a seasonal, temporary, nonagricultural visa with a current 66,000 cap, and is frequently used in landscaping, hospitality and construction industries ...

Ivanka Trump wasn’t in the Golden Globes audience when master of ceremonies Ricky Gervais delivered his scathing indictment of celebrities and Hollywood elite. Trump would have been well advised to heed Gervais’ message. Gervais urged the assembled actors to, if called on to accept an award, shut up, refrain from making political speeches that no ...

In a story that has become all too familiar, AT&T announced that it will be laying off its U.S. tech workers. Many of the displaced Americans have been employed for decades. They will struggle to find comparable jobs and may not even find employment. AT&T will replace these American workers with foreign nationals. To add insult ...

On December 17, 2019, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) announced new amendments to bill S. 386, the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act, pursuant to his negotiations with Sen. Dick Durbin (DIll.). Sen. Durbin had previously placed a hold on S. 386, citing concerns over the bill’s deleterious impact on immigrants from countries other than India. Due to the zero-sum ...

Michael Goodwin, a New York Post columnist who began his journalism career at The New York Times, last month wrote a two-part commentary that chronicled the long, steady erosion of reporting integrity. Although Goodwin focused on the Times, his observations that bias has become common in the mainstream media easily applies to many publications. Editors ...

The Department of Homeland Security’s recently released Unified Agenda gives hope to U.S. tech workers that major, long overdue changes may be coming soon. New DHS guidelines would provide relief to American tech specialists from the decades-long onslaught of overseas H-1B visa holders, L-1 visa international transfers and foreign-born Optional Practical Training (OPT) graduates with science, ...

The Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program just released a study that casts serious doubt on President Trump’s insistence that the economy is improving, and that the employment market is strong. Brookings’ findings confirm that working doesn’t necessarily translate into earning a decent wage. Despite record low 3.6 percent unemployment, the Brookings’ report, “Meet the Low-Wage Workforce,” ...

On November 11, Chad Wolf, acting Under Secretary for Strategy, Policy and Plans at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and former Chief of Staff for Kirstjen Nielsen who served for two years as DHS Secretary, will replace Kevin McAleenan as Secretary for DHS. As his reason for resigning, McAleenan said he wanted to spend more ...

No sooner does one awful, American job-killing bill get nixed in Congress than another pops up to replace it. Such is the nature of trying to protect U.S. workers from an unnecessary wave of foreign nationals displacing talented, educated white-collar Americans from their middle-class jobs. To the specifics, S. 386 the misleadingly named Fairness for High-Skilled ...

Kevin Lynn responds to the Oct. 3, 2019, WaPo article, “A D.C. family stranded in India by our dysfunctional immigration system,” by Petula Dvorak. Response immediately below; WaPo article below response: Dear Petula: I read with great interest your article entitled “A D.C. family stranded in India by our dysfunctional immigration system.” I was saddened to hear of ...

For much of the summer, the House of Representatives obsessed over the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act (HR 1044), a bad bill that would eliminate the traditional 7 percent country caps imposed on employment-based visas, largely H-1Bs. By so doing, the bill would ensure that the overwhelming majority of those coveted employment-based visas would go ...

Last month, rumors swirled that, on Thursday, Sept. 26, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) would make a second pass at seeking unanimous consent for S. 386, the “Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act.” Previously, in July, Sen. Lee made an unsuccessful attempt to seek unanimous consent for the bill. It was a surprise, then, that Lee’s second unanimous ...

It’s an appalling reality that in the entire U.S. Senate not one single member is willing to stand up for American workers. From appointed Arizona Republican Martha McSally to Vermont Independent Bernie Sanders, possibly the world’s only avowed socialist who won’t defend his nation’s workers, none stood up against the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act, S. ...

White House insiders report that Stephen Miller, President Trump’s senior advisor and go-to immigration guy, is no longer the point man. Instead, going forward, the president will rely on his immigration know-nothing son-in-law Jared Kushner. Slight correction: Kushner isn’t quite a complete immigration dunce. He’s savvy enough to realize that some types of immigration can ...

On July 25, 2019, ten Democrats in the U.S. Senate sent a letter to Sundar Pichai, the 47-year-old Google CEO who hails from India. The senators expressed their “objection to Google’s misuse of independent contractors and temporary workers,” citing recent stories in The New York Times on May 28, 2019 and August 5, 2019. After reading ...