"The H-1B is easier, I need the body count"
When given the option by Congress, many employers choose the "low road" and forgo domestic recruitment. A new article in Bloomberg puts a face to those bypassed workers.
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Census data reveals 2 million increase in foreign-born population under Pres. Biden
A recent report by the Center for Immigration Studies uses Census Bureau data to estimate that illegal immigration is responsible for 2/3 of the 2 million increase in the U.S. foreign-born population since Pres. Biden took office in January 2021.
DHS Announces Plan to Bus Migrants Deeper Into Country's Interior
The Department of Homeland Security has announced that it plans to transport aliens awaiting asylum proceedings from the southern border and surrounding towns further into the country's interior.
Republican Study Committee Releases FY 2023 Budget Proposal
The Republican Study Committee recently released its Fiscal Year 2023 budget proposal which includes a plan to end Biden's border crisis, curb future illegal immigration, and reform America's deteriorating legal immigration system.
Immigration provisions in COMPETES Act aren't about competitiveness
Every year, there is a proposal to "staple a green card to the diploma" of a foreign student who earns a PhD. The idea that there aren't enough intelligent Americans to fill the smart jobs has been especially sticky with a particular subset of Americans, Members of the United States Congress, but it isn't true.
As early as the 1980s, The National Science Foundation (NSF) urged lawmakers to admit more foreign students into Ph.D programs for the purpose of depressing wages.
Rattner: Amnesty and Foreign Workers Will NOT Fix Inflation
In a recent interview, Steve Rattner, former counselor to the Treasury Secretary under the Obama Administration, rebuked those who are now arguing that mass amnesty is the magic fix to the current inflation crisis.
New Lawsuit Alleges "Permanent Indentured Servitude" in Immigration Program
A lawsuit was filed in Nevada this week alleging what is effectively a racket by ranchers conspiring to artificially deflate wages for both foreign and domestic shepherds. It is clear to anyone paying attention that the current framework for the agricultural guest worker program, H-2A, is not helping foreign or domestic workers, and at scale our temporary work programs are in fact suppressing wages and working conditions for workers to the sole benefit of employers.
Texas Fights Biden's Border Crisis Itself After Being Abandoned by Feds
Texas has stepped up to the plate in combating the effects of Biden’s Border Crisis by deploying more than 40 miles of razor wire and other practical border barriers along the Texas-Mexico border.
"Is My Country Sustainable?"
Contra Elon Musk, ecological sustainability isn't a question of how many people a land mass can contain, but how many it can sustain. People can go just about anywhere for short periods of time, but if they want to put down roots and maintain a certain standard of living they are going to need large amounts of biologically productive space nearby. There's the rub.
