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

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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,” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents arrested an armed human smuggler with a group of Mexican migrants not far from another group of caravan migrants. It appears the smuggler attempted to use the Central American migrants as a diversion in order to bring across the Mexican nationals. Yuma Sector Communications Center camera operators observed a group of ...

Demonstrators run away from a cloud of tear gas during clashes with the Bolivarian National Guard in Urena, Venezuela, near the border with Colombia, on Saturday (AP Photo/Fernando Llano) At least four Venezuelan troops have abandoned their posts ...

The Pentagon will deploy 1,000 more troops to the southern border next week, a senior U.S. defense official said Friday afternoon. The additional forces will bring the total to nearly 6,000 active-duty and National Guard personnel deployed in support of the Department of Homeland Security at the border with Mexico, one week after President Trump declared ...

The Pentagon will deploy 1,000 more troops to the southern border next week, a senior U.S. defense official said Friday afternoon. The additional forces will bring the total to nearly 6,000 active-duty and National Guard personnel deployed in support of the Department of Homeland Security at the border with Mexico, one week after President Trump declared ...