With the economy improving and the labor market tightening, employers have ratcheted up their call for an increase in foreign labor. President Trump has even said that there are not enough workers to fill open jobs. The President's own Council of Economic Advisors makes clear in its latest report that there are still many Americans on the sidelines who are available to work.
With more and more news reports on what is actually happening at the border, it should get harder for Members of Congress to plausibly deny the asylum loopholes that are driving the current surge of illegal immigration.
The American Dream and Promise Act, H.R. 6, would grant amnesty to as many as 3.5 million illegal aliens who entered the country before their 18th birthday AND to 429,000 (mostly illegal-alien) individuals who have received relief from deportation, making it the largest amnesty in our nation's history, if passed.
An op-ed this week in the Washington Examiner points out that up to 5,000 Verizon employees may be laid off over the next three months, many after training the guest workers who will replace them. The writer discusses how the H-1B skill guest worker visa is often used to displace qualified American workers.
To provide high-skilled visas for nationals of the Republic of Korea, and for other purposes.
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide a special rule for the period of admission of H-2A nonimmigrants employed as dairy workers and sheepherders, and for other purposes.
A bill to provide for additional supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, for border security and disaster relief.
A bill to provide high-skilled nonimmigrant visas for nationals of the Republic of Korea, and for other purposes.
To protect children through eliminating visa loopholes.
