President Donald Trump on Monday barred federal agencies from dismissing U.S. citizens or green card holders and replacing them with foreign workers and blasted the Tennessee Vally Authority for having done so.
Wednesday marked a break in that history. Staffers (Vanguard calls them “crew’) say it was the deadline for 1,300 of them to move to Infosys, an India-based outsourcing contractor; or leave to search for new jobs.
California is suing the Trump administration to block an order that would exclude illegal aliens from counting toward congressional apportionment.
The Justice Department announced today that it reached a settlement agreement with ASTA CRS Inc., a provider of IT staffing and consulting services with offices in Ashburn, Virginia, and Greenbelt, Maryland accused of unlawfully favoring foreign visa workers over qualified Americans.
As COVID-19 cases surge across the border, new questions are being asked about the nexus of immigration and the spread of the coronavirus.
The New York Times column "Trump Suspends Visas Allowing Hundreds of Thousands of Foreigners to Work in the U.S." covers the Administration's recent order to halt foreign work visas through the end of this year, while the nation suffers massive job losses stemming from the pandemic.
Yesterday, the House of Representatives passed Rep. Judy Chu's (D-Calif.) NO BAN Act and Rep. Pramila Jayapal's (D-Wash.) Access to Counsel Act as amendments to separate legislation. The bills were passed mostly along party lines and are unlikely to receive consideration in the Republican controlled Senate.
The country’s big business groups filed a lawsuit Tuesday to block President Trump’s new coronavirus immigration restrictions, begging the court to keep the pipeline of foreign labor flowing.
