According to a recent analysis of the November labor market data by the Center for Immigration Studies, an estimated 1.9 million more legal and illegal immigrants are working in the United States than before the pandemic.
Chief Justice John Roberts ordered the Biden Admin. to halt the removal of Title 42, the migrant-expulsion public health order by the CDC after a lengthy legal battle between the administration and several Republican states.
Habitat corridors across the American landscape are being extinguished. Good faith efforts to save them can only hope to mitigate the loss if the national population continues to increase by some 2-plus million additional residents each year. Yet some of the most powerful supporters of 30x30 also favor accelerating immigration-driven population growth.
Millions of Americans limit their personal consumption to conserve natural resources. But there is a movement afoot to ask Americans to sacrifice not for nature's sake, but in order to pack more people into the country, the states, cities and towns. We are being asked to conserve more individually so we can consume more collectively. With our total ecological footprint already well beyond our biocapacity, moderating immigration numbers back to the levels of even the 1980s would be among the top priorities of a sensible Congress.
Six Republican House members have sent a letter to their colleagues in the Senate urging them to oppose a possible amnesty framework, according to reporting by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott asked the state Attorney General Ken Paxton to launch investigations into non-governmental organizations that may be providing aid to illegal aliens unlawfully crossing the border.
According to a recent poll by Rasmussen Reports, a plurality of likely U.S. voters oppose giving amnesty to an estimated 12 million illegals currently living in the United States.
In conjunction with the Department of Labor, DHS has issued a joint temporary final rule to increase the number of H-2B foreign worker visas for fiscal year 2023. The temporary final rule was made available for public inspection and will formally publish in the Federal Register on Dec. 15, 2022.
The push for more immigration amidst growing economic uncertainty only adds to the financial insecurity of working U.S. families. A policy rooted in economic fairness would limit employers' access to foreign labor.
We need a Great Tightening of our borders and our labor force; there's something broken and unhealthy about our productivity outcomes.
