A recent study by the Center for Immigration Studies found that immigrants are replacing low-skilled native-born men in the workforce. The study shows a significant decline in hours worked from 2003-2015 for native born workers while it has increased for immigrant workers in the same category.
National Public Radio has a useful but flawed fact check of Donald Trump's immigration speech in Arizona last night. Here are five areas where the NPR fact checks and clarifications could use some of their own:
The Associated Press has a useful but flawed fact check of Donald Trump's immigration speech in Arizona last night. Here are four areas where the AP's fact checks or clarifications could use some of their own:
A group of 41 “non-governmental organizations” that assist refugees worldwide, including four directly involved in U.S. refugee resettlement, urged President Obama to commit to accepting 200,000 refugee and humanitarian admissions in fiscal year (FY) 2017 – a 100 percent increase over the projected FY17 level he established last year. While the president has the authority to establish the yearly refugee target, Congress must decide whether to provide funds to resettle that or an alternative number.
The Associated Press reports the Mexican immigration agency issued transit visas to 424 aliens from African countries that will enable them to reach the U.S. border. Officials from the National Immigration Institute said those from the Congo, Somalia and Ghana had traveled from Brazil or Ecuador to the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. Most voluntarily turned themselves in over just two days last week.
2014: Sponsored H.R. 4598, introduced by Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) to Eliminate the Visa Lottery and Improve the H-1B visa program
Last week Pres. Obama used a provision called “humanitarian parole” to give temporary status to immigrant entrepreneurs, historically this parole has only been used during a time of emergency.
2013: Senate Judiciary Committee vote on S. 744, the Gang of Eight's amnesty, introduced by Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.)
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has released a new I-129S form that will ask for specific details about a foreign workers’ prior work history in an effort to address fraud concerns. The new form has doubled in length from four pages to eight in order to gather information, especially in determining what “specialized knowledge” an applicant has and if it meets the L-1 visa conditions.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is proposing a rule that relies on the agency’s parole authority to give foreign nationals temporary permission to be in the United States to “start or scale their businesses.” Current law allows USCIS to use parole authority in dire, individual humanitarian cases, not to benefit broad categories of beneficiaries. As such the proposal, like the court-blocked DAPA/extended DACA amnesty, directly challenges the limits of agency discretion under immigration law.
