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

published 2019-02-22 12:04:17 by In this Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019 photo, migrants from Central America, Africa and the Caribbean, who are awaiting their turns to request asylum in the U.S., pass the time inside a shelter in Bachilleres gymnasium in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Hundreds of ...

In this Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019 photo, migrants from Central America, Africa and the Caribbean, who are awaiting their turns to request asylum in the U.S., pass the time inside a shelter in Bachilleres gymnasium in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Hundreds of migrants, some of whom arrived from the recently closed shelter in Piedras Negras on ...

A Border Patrol agent overlooks Mexico from Eagle Pass, Texas. A Honduran woman detained while trying to cross into the U.S. illegally claims she was kidnapped and held for ransom by human smugglers in Mexico. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection ) A Honduran woman detained while crossing into the United States illegally told federal agents in Texas that ...

published 2019-02-21 09:49:53 by CORRECTS SPELLING OF GUAIDO – Venezuela’s self-proclaimed interim president Juan Guaido walks into the crowd after he addressed transportation workers during a demonstration of support for him in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2019. Venezuela is gripped by a historic political ...

Mexican immigration authorities were attacked by members of a new Central American caravan which illegally crossed from Guatemala on Monday. The group of at least 500 pelted officials with rocks, causing damage to vehicles and minor injuries at a roadblock. Mexican immigration officials (INAMI) in Chiapas attempted to turn back a caravan which arrived approximately a ...

Jared Kushner is working with business groups to develop a pro-business immigration policy for approval by President Donald Trump in coming months, according to the McClatchy news service. The news service reports: President Donald Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law is operating on at least two tracks — the first is working with a small group studying specific ways to redistribute employment visas ...

At least 25 gang members affiliated with the MS-13 gang were deported from Mexico after they were revealed to be concealed within the caravan of 1,600 Central American migrants just across the U.S. border, immigration officials said Tuesday. The caravan first arrived in Piedras Negras, Mexico, two weeks ago across the border from Eagle Pass, Texas ...

Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh, speaking to “Fox News Sunday,” charged that the compromise spending bill recently signed by President Trump to avert another partial government shutdown was little more than a disguised effort by some Republicans to torpedo his 2020 presidential candidacy. “Both parties have people that are still trying to get rid of ...

PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila – Authorities in this border city are investigating the execution of a local man after finding his body just behind a shelter where more than 1700 caravan migrants are housed. The half-buried victim is not a migrant and had been there for several weeks before authorities found his remains. The caravan migrants are ...

Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents rescued 17 migrants from drowning in the Rio Grande River in three incidents on Thursday. Agents assigned to the Eagle Pass Station heard cries for help from the direction of the Rio Grande River that separates Mexico from the U.S. on Wednesday morning at about 2:30 a.m. The agents called for ...

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont recently named Indra Nooyi, the former Pepsi CEO, to his team of economic advisors to bring jobs to Connecticut, but is she the right one to trust with that task? Is the opulent outsourcer, pocketing $31.1 million in total compensation during her last year at Pepsi, really one to commiserate with Connecticut’s tech ...

Guatemalan head of intelligence Mario Duarte said during a visit to Washington Tuesday that the migrant caravans heading to the U.S. southern border are “well-planned” and “well-organized” by those wanting to “weaponize those in need.” “This was not a spontaneous event. It was well-planned. It was well-organized,” Duarte, head of the Secretariat of Strategic Intelligence of Guatemala, ...

Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline,” network contributor Donny Deutsch predicted history would “frown” on Republicans for supporting President Donald Trump. Deutsch said, “History will really frown on the Republicans. You just gave one instance. How about sending troops down when there’s no caravan coming. Sending American troops down literally like Tinkertoy soldiers. We can go on ...

Rep. Adam Kinzinger was deployed to the U.S.-Mexico border with his Air National Guard unit, according to his spokeswoman. (Rep. Adam Kinzinger) Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., has been deployed to the U.S.-Mexico border with his Air National ...

ANTELOPE WELLS, N.M. – ANTELOPE WELLS, N.M. — Since October 2018, more than 5,000 illegal immigrants have been caught crossing the border in the El Paso Sector. And they came in bunches — with 28 groups of more than 100 people crossing the El Paso Sector in that time.  The latest episode came Monday morning, ...

EAGLE PASS, Texas – Even before the migrant caravan arrived last week, this area, like many along the southern border, was busy. But then 1,800 people arrived, mostly Honduran, across the river in Piedras Negras, Mexico and a normally hectic day became impossible to manage. Fox News recently visited this part of the border. Reporters saw when ...

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers intercepted more than $2.2 million in methamphetamine at the Laredo Colombia-Solidarity International Bridge over the weekend. Officials said they seized the illegal substance described as a “significant amount of hard narcotics” while conducting enforcement operations. On Saturday, CBP Office of Field Operations (OFO) officers assigned to this Laredo Sector ...

San Diego County supervisors are reportedly planning to sue the Trump administration over the widespread releases of asylum-seeking families. The county board voted on the decision during a closed-door meeting on Tuesday, two supervisors confirmed. It was not immediately clear on what grounds the lawsuit would be argued or when it would be filed. Since late October, the ...

Silicon Valley’s business elites and donor-class billionaires are uniting with elected Republicans and Democrats to ensure that white-collar, middle-class American jobs are swiftly outsourced to mostly Indian and Chinese nationals. A plan known as the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act, introduced in the Senate by Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Kamala Harris (D-CA), as well as Reps. ...

published 2019-02-12 14:32:30 by Six-year-old Daniela Fernanda Portillo Burgos sits on the shoulders of her mother, Iris Jamilet, 39, as they look out through the fence of a immigrant shelter in Piedras Negras, Mexico, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019. A caravan of about 1,600 Central American ...

published 2019-02-12 12:46:26 FILE – In this Jan. 19, 2017 file photo provided U.S. law enforcement, authorities escort Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, center, from a plane to a waiting caravan of SUVs at Long Island MacArthur Airport in Ronkonkoma, N.Y. The notorious Mexican drug lord was convicted of drug-trafficking charges, Tuesday, Feb. 12 2019, in federal ...

FILE – In this Jan. 19, 2017 file photo provided U.S. law enforcement, authorities escort Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, center, from a plane to a waiting caravan of SUVs at Long Island MacArthur Airport, in Ronkonkoma, N.Y. The Sinaloa cartel marches on following the conviction ...

Approximately 100 members of a migrant caravan that reached the border with Texas are asking to return to their home countries, Mexican officials said. After spending more than a week at a shelter in Piedras Negras, nearly 100 migrants are requesting passage home, Mayor Claudio Bres told local news outlets. The group was handed off to ...

Del Rio Sector agents rescued five Honduran migrants from the swiftly moving waters of the Rio Grande River that separates Texas from Mexico. Agents said two were toddlers who were put in grave danger. Eagle Pass Station agents patrolling the river on a boat came upon a group of migrants who were attempting to wade across the ...

FILE: Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks at the California Legislative Black Caucus Martin Luther King Jr., Breakfast, in Sacramento, Calif. (AP) California Gov. Gavin Newsom is slated to pull several hundred National Guard troops from the state’s border with ...

MISSION, Texas — Heavy machinery has started to roll in near the National Butterfly Center, which straddles the Mexican border. Customs and Border Protection has positioned vehicles here. And construction workers and architects have started plotting out their work for the next few months, and possibly years. As the nation’s capital grapples over how to fund the ...

President Donald Trump suggested that he is ready to ditch his Inauguration Day promise of a “Hire American” economic policy — even though thousands of auto workers are being laid off, millions of Americans do not have jobs, and many millions of Americans cannot get better-paying jobs. The huge policy shift in favor of employers and ...

published 2019-02-07 19:14:13 by Honduran Delia Romero, 24, sits with her children in their sleeping area at a sheltered in Piedras Negras, Mexico, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019. A caravan of about 1,600 Central American migrants camped Tuesday in the Mexican border city of Piedras Negras, ...