H.R. 4720, the Expedited Family Reunification Act, would amend the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 to provide for the expedited removal of unaccompanied alien children who are not victims of a severe form of trafficking in persons and who do not have a fear of returning to their country of nationality or last habitual residence.
NumbersUSA has announced to the media that we have downgraded Donald Trump on our Worker-Protection Immigration Grade Cards based on his statements in the last two debates that suggest the country has a labor shortage in a couple of categories that he indicates need foreign workers.
In a letter to DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, called out the Obama Administration’s abuse of advance parole authority in granting a citizen path to illegal aliens with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status. President Obama had said these executive amnesty recipients would not get citizenship.
This week Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) wrote a letter to the CEO of Abbott Laboratories, Miles White, in Chicago asking him to explain why his company plans to lay off 180 IT American workers and replace them with H-1B foreign workers.
The House will vote on a motion to file a friend-of-the-court brief in the Supreme Court case against Pres. Obama’s Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA) executive action, according to House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) The brief would state that Pres. Obama overstepped his authority by issuing an executive action that would change current immigration laws.
According to a recent DHS report the number of unaccompanied alien children (UACs) coming across the border has doubled and the number of family units has tripled in fiscal year 2016 compared to the same time frame in fiscal year 2015.
One of the top headlines on the front page of this morning's New York Times reads "Foreign Labor Fills Vacancies at Trump Club." The story details the Mar-a-Lago resort's preference for hiring foreign workers through the H-2B visa program over hundreds of American workers who were referred to the club for jobs. It's interesting to see the story in the Times' after it ignored the fact that the massive omnibus spending bill passed by Congress in December quadrupled the H-2B visa program for FY2016.
House Democrats introduced the Fair Day in Court for Kids Act of 2016 (H.R. 4646) that would grant illegal alien children coming across the border access to taxpayer-funded lawyers that they claim is their constitutional right.
Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) introduced the ICE Agent Support Act (H.R. 4597) and the American Jobs First Act (H.R. 4598) this week and both are identical to the bills introduced by Sen. Sessions (R-Ala.) and Cruz (R-Texas) in the Senate earlier this month.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch has issued a new policy that could encourage sanctuary jurisdictions to start cooperating with ICE deportation requests.
