Fifteen countries have been added to the list of countries eligible for H-2A and H-2B visas, including Barbados, Estonia, Fiji, Hungary, Kiribati, Latvia, Macedonia, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu. The H-2 visa classes are temporary work permits offered to foreign workers willing to work in agriculture, tourism and the hospitality industries when a worker shortage is anticipated.
A startling look at how U.S. immigration will add 300 million people to the country this century if policies are not changed. This dramatic presentation of the latest Census data raises serious questions about the ability of the country to achieve environmental sustainability and to meet the quality-of-life infrastructure needs of the national community.
'Immigration By The Numbers -- Off The Charts'
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Almost nothing will have a greater impact on the quality of life we leave to our children and grandchildren than how Congress sets immigration numbers today.
Washington, D.C. area bricklayers are upset that stonemasons from China are being used to build the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial on the National Mall, the Washington Post reports. "Why do they need to come over to do the work when there are so many people here who can do it?" said the head of the local Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers union.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that a record 15 million people applied this year for the visa lottery – a program that hands out 50,000 green cards per year based on chance. Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R –Va.), the author of a bill to terminate the visa lottery, says the program threatens national security, results in the unfair administration of our immigration laws, and encourages a cottage industry for fraudulent opportunists.
The Center for Immigration Studies reports on a letter Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) sent DHS Secretary Napolitano that cites incidents in which U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) officials bullied career staff into rubber-stamping benefit approvals (e.g., for green cards) and ignoring fraud.
On Wednesday, Roy’s 2010 update to his Immigration Gumballs video -- “Immigration, World Poverty and Gumballs” -- reached 100,000 views. It’s now up to 116,352. While that number doesn’t come close to our desire to eventually have millions viewing, it’s a pretty significant milestone after being publicly posted for only one week -- especially compared to some other YouTube postings.
Your NumbersUSA team has gone to great effort to produce an updated video that matches the professionalism, the integrity and the persuasiveness of the original. We're trying to push the views up quickly enough to land the video on some most-watched lists to greatly expand and broaden the audience which desperately needs to see this perspective about international humanitarianism and immigration.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress on Wednesday that the Jobless Rate will likely stay above 7% for the remainder of Pres. Obama's first term. He said it will take a "significant amount of time" for the economy to create the 8.5 million jobs lost during the recession. However, current levels of legal immigration require the economy to create at least 125,000 new jobs every month just to keep up with the increases in population.
Senator Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) passed away early this morning at the age of 92. He was the longest-serving member in Congress, spending more than 50 years in the Senate and six more in the House of Representatives. Sen. Byrd has a career Immigration-Reduction grade of a B+, which is the highest grade among current Democratic Senators. His high mark also ranks him fourth overall among all Democratic Senators - current and former - graded by NumbersUSA.
For the past five years I have been a full-time student, first receiving my B.A., then moving on to law school. With only two years left in law school and a serious amount of debt piling up, the thought of finding a job after I receive my J.D. is constantly on my mind. Unfortunately, the Labor Department has reported that times have never been harder on Americans my age even though the federal government continues to import high levels of foreign workers.
It isn’t every day a person gets to sit down and chew the fat with one of their U.S. Senators. So I jumped at the chance to participate in an hour long Q & A session with Michael Bennet, the junior Senator from Colorado, who fielded questions from two dozen environmental activists here in northern Colorado. Senator Bennet considers himself a strong environmentalist and in his first year in the Senate he has earned good marks from the League of Conservation Voters. But his poor grade with NumbersUSA contradicts his commitment to the environment.
In an effort led by Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Senators Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), and Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), Senate Democrats are moving towards an Amnesty bill without Republican support. A 26-page outline was circulated today, detailing an Amnesty plan that is similar to the one first released by Senators Schumer and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) a few weeks ago.
Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) became a cosponsor of Rep. Phil Gingrey's Chain Migration bill last week, putting him into the NumbersUSA 5-for-5 Club. Rep. Goodlatte has cosponsored four of our "5 Great Immigration-Reduction Bills" and he introduced H.R.2305, which, if passed, would put an end to the Visa Lottery.
Sen Lindsey Graham, the lone Republican working with Sen. Charles Schumer in the drafting of an Amnesty bill, said this weekend that he thinks the process needs to slow down. The Democratic Leadership, led by Pres. Obama, is looking to accelerate legislation in the aftermath of Arizona's new immigration enforcement law.
Cairo, Egypt is a city of approximately 18 million people within the metropolitan area. That’s more than twice the population of New York City. Cairo is also a city of extreme pollution. It is said that living in Cairo is equivalent to smoking a pack of cigarettes a day, as the average resident ingests more than 20 times the acceptable level of air pollution a day. I can easily see how any city in the United States growing too fast is destined to suffer similar environmental concerns.
A new Rasmussen poll reveals that 70% of likely voters in Arizona support the new illegal immigration bill passed by the State Legislature. Only 23% oppose the bill. If signed into law, the bill would make it a crime to be in the state of Arizona illegally.
A philosophy professor with a focus on environmental ethics and policy explains how he found beauty in nature, and then found that immigration-fueled population growth was a major factor behind every major threat to nature.
Arizona's tough illegal immigration bill hasn't been signed into law yet by Gov. Jan Brewer, but Hispanic Leaders in the House are urging Pres. Barack Obama to block the bill if she does sign it into law. Led by Reps. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) and Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.) say the federal government holds the power when it comes to immigration enforcement.
As of last week, there have only been 13,500 requests for H-1B visas since the federal government opened up the application process on April 1. The visas, which are issued to high-skilled workers in fields that experience a worker shortage, are capped at 65,000 per year and are usually completely grabbed up in the first few weeks.
In honor of yesterday's federal income tax filing deadline, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) wrote a column for The Hill and the Daily Caller, highlighting the high fiscal costs of illegal immigration and the impacts on American taxpayers.
A new ABC story highlights the abuse of Birthright Citizenship, and the growing popularity of "Birth Tourism" among foreign visitors. U.S. hotels are offering birth packages that offer expecting mothers a hotel suite for two months so they can give birth in the United States, awarding automatic citizenship to their newborn child.
A new study conducted by an LSU sociology professor and doctoral student finds that immigration, specifically the influx of Latino workers, increases unemployment and violence in Black communities. The study concludes that an increase in low-skill workers, displaces low-skill Black workers resulting in more violence.
While nearly 3 million Americans lost their jobs in 2009, the federal government issued more than 1 million new Green Cards over the same period of time. According to a new DHS report, 1,130,818 new Green Cards were issued to legal immigrants last year - the highest single-year number since 2006 and the fourth highest in history.
A new study conducted by the Public Policy Institute of California finds that immigration reform won't hurt or help the economy. The study finds that offering an amnesty to the nation's 11-18 million illegal aliens won't improve their individual financial situations.
A new study by Dutch social scientist Jan van de Beek shows that many Dutch are worried about the high costs of immigration, but are afraid to speak out.
The SEIU made tried to silence Roy on the National Mall during the "March for America". And when asked questions about their own unemployed members, they didn't show much sympathy.
During the "March for America" in Washington D.C., one pro-amnesty protester tells Roy that some Americans won't do certain low-skill jobs. More than 70% of employees in the service industry are native born according to data from the Department of Labor.
The immigration issue could still muck up Obamacare. And the liberal Congressional Hispanic Caucus might end up supporting bars to illegal aliens from federal health care.
A new report from Progressives for Immigration Reform discusses the impact of high immigration levels on America's ecological footprint and depleting natural resources. The report, authored by Leon Kolankiewicz, says that "U.S. population currently exceeds the carrying capacity of our land and resource base."
Rep. Mike Coffman (R-Colorado) just cosponsored the CLEAR Act. In doing so, he becomes the 14th U.S. Representative to join the NumbersUSA's elite "5-For-5" club.
Rep. Dean Heller (R-Nevada) just cosponsored the Nuclear Family Priority Act and the SAVE Act. In doing so, he becomes the 13th U.S. Representative to join the NumbersUSA's elite "5-For-5" club.
President Barack Obama announced yesterday that Greece would join more than 30 other nations that make up the Visa Waiver program - a program that allows citizens of the country to visit the United States for less than 90 days without a visa. Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee Lamar Smith, however, believes expanding the program to Greece will increase illegal immigration and threaten national security.
Colorado Congressman Mike Coffman has cosponsored Rep. Phil Gingrey's H.R. 878, the Nuclear Family Priority Act. The bill now has 30 cosponsors, and if passed, would relieve population pressure on America's environmental resources, congested communities and depressed labor markets by eliminating some of the categories under current law.
Approximately 1/2 of immigrant households (both legal and illegal) with kids access welfare services, primarily food and Medicaid. Many argue that immigration is a social issue, but it's a fiscal issue as well. Sign our petition urging Pres. Obama, Speaker of the House Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Reid to stop expanding our welfare system through high immigration numbers.
I have spent two of the last three years living safely and happily in countries that currently have Temporary Protected Status: Nicaragua and El Salvador. And I have visited a third: Honduras. While these countries have their respective problems, continued TPS is by no means necessary.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano this week designated 11 new countries as eligible to participate in the H-2A and H-2B nonimmigrant visa programs, which allow U.S. employers to bring foreign nationals to the United States to fill temporary or seasonal jobs for which U.S. workers are not available.http://www.dhs.gov/ynews/releases/pr_1264197311110.shtm
The Census Bureau reported today that the U.S. population has increased by 1% in 2009, adding another 2.6 million people. According to the bureau, the population is now 308,400,408, and the 2009 increase is due to an increase in births, amounting to a new American every 14 seconds.
Under the current immigration law and enforcement regime, the United States is experiencing a higher rate of immigration, legal plus illegal, than ever before in our history, and it is driving a destructive population increase. At current levels, conservative estimates see our population reaching half a billion by mid-century and possibly 1 billion by 2100.
