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All Ukraine, All the Time!

If only President Biden and Congress loved the U.S. with the same passion the federal [...]

24
May
Biden-Style Transformation

In March 2021, The New York Times published a commentary about President Joe Biden and [...]

21
May
Bone-Dry Western States Can’t Cope with Population Surges

The grisly discovery of human remains at the bottom of Lake Mead is a grim [...]

17
May
Border Admissions Staggering, Mayorkas Admits

For immigration lawyers, these are heady times! Since January 2021, when the Biden regime moved [...]

10
May
Biden’s Immigration Parole Abuse Circumvents Established Law

Twenty years ago, journalist Michelle Malkin wrote a column titled, “The Deportation Abyss: It Ain’t [...]

05
May
Biden Deaf to NYT’s Immigration Alarm Bells

Showing complete indifference to his party’s fate, President Joe Biden is doing all he can [...]

04
May
National Sheriffs’ Association: ‘We Simply Have No Border Left….’

During March 2022, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reported 221,303 migrant encounters, a 33 [...]

29
Apr
Panama Betrayal: Mayorkas, Blinken Scheme for More Illegal Migration

In anticipation of regaining a congressional majority after the 2022 mid-term elections, GOP leaders are [...]

26
Apr
Despite Advocates’ Labor Shortage Wailing, U.S. Workers Readily Available

Depending on who is asked, the Southwest border invasion represents either sovereign America’s demise or [...]

19
Apr
Cheating, Lying Spawned Border Invasion

The hour is late to save America from the White House-sanctioned, sovereignty-busting illegal immigrant invasion. [...]

14
Apr
California Considers Giving Law Enforcement Jobs to Illegal Immigrants – Really!

When the subject is California and the state’s extreme politics, nothing ever surprises. But even [...]

12
Apr
Migrant Surge Will Compound Housing Crisis

The Alliance for a New Immigration Consensus, a cheap labor lobby with a fancy-sounding name, [...]

08
Apr
Title 42 Going Out; Migrant Flood Coming In

Since his first day in the White House, President Joe Biden has embarked on a [...]

05
Apr
In an Era Defined by Shortages, Immigration Overages Hurt All

In Congress, an inverse relationship exists between the numbers of border crossers and a discussion [...]

31
Mar
Then and Now: Southwest Border and its Ranchers Under Siege

Last week, the Texas Department of Public Safety said that its elite brush team apprehended [...]

29
Mar
White House and the Media: Corrupt, Dishonest and Untrustworthy

When journalists sit down to write, they can choose between two compelling storylines. The first [...]

22
Mar
More Afghan Evacuation Flaws Surface, Cautionary Lessons for Biden on Ukraine

More alarming details have come to light about how badly the Biden administration botched the [...]

18
Mar
Immigration is an Economic Issue

For more than 50 years, the roiling immigration debate has been wrongly framed. The arguments [...]

17
Mar
Next Wave of Evacuees to the U.S. Likely to be Ukrainian

Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine has brought devastation or death to hundreds of thousands of [...]

10
Mar
Biden State of the Union: Border Invasion Marches On

After forcefully chastising Russia and its aggression against the Ukraine, claiming credit for ending the [...]

03
Mar
Five Million Ukrainian Refugees Possible

Ukrainians’ fate in the country’s Russia-perpetrated war is, on February’s last day, unclear. At first [...]

28
Feb
For Afghans, the Hard Part of Assimilation Begins Now

Afghan evacuee resettlement is now in Phase Three, the crucial stage where assimilation, the Biden [...]

24
Feb
Amnesty is always the Solution for Immigration Advocates

Soon after 9/11, immigration activists began a full-scale lobbying effort to encourage Congress to pass [...]

21
Feb
Biden Violates ‘Take Care’ Clause

Finally! Vice President Kamala Harris, during a recent interview, said that the effects of the [...]

15
Feb
Gov. Abbott, O’Rourke, Immigration Enforcement and Texas Ground Zero

  Texas will hold its gubernatorial primary March 1, with a runoff scheduled for May [...]

11
Feb
Most Humane Border Policy: Enforcement

  Since the U.S. Border Patrol first began tracking migrant fatalities in 1998, fiscal 2021 [...]

07
Feb
Schumer Waning; Ocasio-Cortez Waxing in Possible Primary Showdown

Two sure signs that the 2022 mid-term campaigning has begun: candidates’ television spots are bombarding [...]

30
Jan
White House Sees Border Policy Failure as Success

Getting a dinner reservation at Per Se, New York’s restaurant of choice for the city’s [...]

27
Jan
On MLK Day, Congressional Black Caucus Ignores Wage Gap Solutions

  The Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday came and went, as it always does, without [...]

17
Jan
Harris Announces Chronically Failed Idea: Throw Money at Migration

Vice President Kamala Harris, doubtlessly growing exasperated by the criticism she’s received for neglecting her [...]

12
Jan
Harry Reid Once Championed Pro-American Immigration Reform

On January 12, former Senate Majority leader Harry Reid will lie in state at the [...]

07
Jan
Forecasting 2022 at the Border

Since the Biden administration hasn’t indicated that it will shift in its Southwest border policy, [...]

02
Jan
Parliamentarian to Americans: Merry Christmas!

No Amnesty in Build Back Better After nearly a year of watching President Joe Biden [...]

20
Dec
Clock is Ticking on ‘Build Back Better’

If only Congress would take its winter break, then the rest of the nation – [...]

13
Dec
Elon Musk’s Uninformed Plea for More Babies

At The Wall Street Journal’s annual Chief Executive Officers’ council, Elon Musk, the world’s richest [...]

09
Dec
The Mounting Cost of Afghan Resettlement

As with many immigration-related matters, too much information is purposely hidden from public view. We [...]

07
Dec
GOP Searches for a Democrat ‘Nay’ on Build Back Better

West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin Washington, D.C.’s political class is focused on West Virginia Sen. [...]

04
Dec
Noise Pollution, an Overpopulation-Related Health Crisis

Overpopulation’s negative consequences are well-known to the nation’s environmentalists. Too many people lead to overdevelopment [...]

22
Nov
Visa Holders Displace Black Mississippi Ag Workers

For decades, agriculture employers have claimed that an inability to find willing American workers forces [...]

19
Nov
State Dept. Offers ‘Sponsor Circles’ to Afghan Evacuees

In her October 22 New York Times opinion piece, “Angela Merkel Was Right,” journalist Michelle [...]

16
Nov
Is Administration’s Hope that Jobs Situation has Turned Around Realistic?

The October Bureau of Labor Statistics report showed that the economy boomed forward with a [...]

08
Nov
U.S. Fentanyl Deaths Reach Tragic Record High

  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that last year in the United [...]

04
Nov
Facebook Aiding and Abetting Southern Border Invasion

Facebook, the tech giant famous for censoring posts that promote political views opposite to its [...]

03
Nov
Citizens Wonder if Biden Cares

When future historians look back at Joe Biden’s presidency, they may identify October 2021 as [...]

02
Nov
Immigration Mayorkas-Style

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has instituted immigration policies that make the 2021 [...]

29
Oct
Sinema’s Missed Opportunity (to Enlighten Her Students)

When pro-immigration activists accosted Krysten Sinema, in a ladies’ room stall, aboard the east bound [...]

14
Oct
After September’s Dismal BLS Report, Looking Ahead

For the second consecutive month, Wall Street analysts and media business forecasters badly missed the [...]

12
Oct
Frivolous White House Neglects National Security

To learn first-hand how negligent the federal government is about national security, book an airline [...]

07
Oct
Obama’s Immigration Warning to Biden: 2022 Coming Soon

In an ABC Good Morning America interview with co-anchor Robin Roberts, former President Barack Obama [...]

03
Oct
With Borders Open, Evacuees Incoming, SCOTUS Must Rule on Birthright Citizenship

The rush to resettle thousands of Afghan evacuees and the Southwest border bungling prove one [...]

27
Sep
Biden to Deport Haitians, Too Little, Too Late

Illegal border crossers, Ciudad, Acuna, Mexico, Sept 18. Reuters. Last week, the Biden administration announced [...]

21
Sep
Members of Congress Make Little Personal Investment in Afghans

Not content to resettle thousands of Afghan evacuees into reluctant, already-struggling municipalities, Congress wants those [...]

17
Sep
Congress, Don’t Be So America Last!

Late Friday evening, the House Judiciary Committee unveiled the immigration provisions they’d like inserted into [...]

14
Sep
White House Dismisses Sovereign America’s Future

Los Angeles’ Sunday night talk show host Terry Anderson (1950 – 2010) used to open [...]

07
Sep
Refugee Resettlement: The Sky is the Limit

The State Department recently identified 19 U.S. cities as preferred destinations for Afghan refugees. Chosen [...]

02
Sep
Afghan Resettlement: Pedal to the Metal, Consequences Be Damned

The State Department has designated 19 U.S. cities as acceptable for refugee resettlement which made [...]

31
Aug
Historic, Irreversible Unsustainable Migration Resettlement Continues

Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 18, 2021. If a single Washington, D.C., official has given so much [...]

27
Aug
Wooldridge Delivers the Overpopulation Message for the 21st Century – Will We Listen this Time?

As soon as the reader digs into Frosty Wooldridge’s “America’s Overpopulation Predicament: Blindsiding Future Generations,” [...]

24
Aug
Americans Fund Afghan, Border Blunders

No sooner had the Taliban taken control of Kabul than the establishment demanded that thousands [...]

17
Aug
‘Woke’ Goal: Cancel Democracy

On July 28, The New York Times published an op-ed titled, “There Is No Good [...]

15
Aug
Border Fiasco Ensures Tight Mid-Term Races

In 2019, former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said that the first thing [...]

13
Aug
The American Southwest: Twice the people, half the water?

Colorado River Showing reservoirs, including iconic Lake Mead at Hoover Dam, shrunk to a fraction [...]

11
Aug
Drought, Border Surge Incompatible

Plumes from the Dixie Fire, Plumas County, Calif., July 22, 2021. The federal government’s U.S. [...]

09
Aug
Open Borders, COVID, Crime, Amnesty

The existing open border between Mexico and the United States, plus an amnesty for several [...]

04
Aug
RIP: Richard Lamm, Our Ally for Stable Population and Manageable Immigration

On July 29, Richard D. Lamm, Colorado’s three-term governor, 1975-1987, died of complications from a [...]

02
Aug
Countless Administrative Ploys to Immigration Increases

In the criminal justice system, parole means a prisoner’s early release, pursuant to certain conditions, [...]

26
Jul
Migration Expands Beyond Northern Triangle

Border crossers, San Miguel, Ariz. Photo: CBP   One of the 21st century’s biggest stories [...]

19
Jul
Amnesty: the Bad Penny That Always Shows Up

Promptly after U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced its June migrant crossing data, 189,000, [...]

18
Jul
Biden Pondering Afghan Visa Increase

The United States is apparently on the verge of complete withdrawal from Afghanistan, its longest [...]

07
Jul
On Independence Day, Cautionary Thoughts

On Independence Day 2021, millions of Americans wonder if they’re witnessing first-hand democracy’s end, and [...]

01
Jul
BLM: Biden Loves Minors

In Arizona, residents are increasingly frustrated and often angry at President Biden’s disregard for their [...]

24
Jun
DHS Study: Economics, Not Violence or Climate, Drive Migration

The University of Houston’s Borders, Trade, and Immigration Institute (BTI), a Department of Homeland Security [...]

22
Jun
For Human Smugglers, Income Opportunities Abound

Down on the Southwest border, business is booming – criminal business, that is. The federal [...]

15
Jun
SCOTUS Upholds Immigration Law, Setback for Expansionists

On June 7, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the immigration program [...]

10
Jun
Migration’s ‘Root Causes’ Identified: Biden and Harris!

Two and a half months have passed since President Joe Biden designated Vice President Kamala [...]

08
Jun
GWB, Chamber Push for More Immigration

President Biden is having trouble getting traction on his first-day-in-office, priority immigration legislation, the U.S. [...]

04
Jun
Birth Tourism Thrives in New York City as the Big Apple Loses Legitimate Businesses

Businesses headquartered in New York City have, in large numbers, relocated elsewhere, or plan to [...]

26
May
DHS Sec. Mayorkas Green-Lights Border Surge

President Joe Biden has been around Washington, D.C., for a long time – a six-term [...]

24
May
HHS Sec. Becerra Softens Immigration Tone

Finally, from the White House comes the first acknowledgment that the border crisis has spiraled [...]

14
May
After Crossing the Border, Then What?

From the sudden, unanticipated population growth, there will be maximum strain on K-12 education, health [...]

12
May
Napolitano: Open Borders, Yesterday, Today, Always

In Janet Napolitano’s 35-year-long professional career, she’s held important and influential positions. Napolitano has been [...]

10
May
San Diego Boat Tragedy: Needless Deaths

Through their refusal to enforce immigration laws, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris [...]

05
May
Congress Proposes Legislation to Deepen Border Crisis

More centers and speedier processing will encourage, not discourage, endless migrant surges. The much-needed congressional [...]

29
Apr
Biden Waffles, Hikes Refugee Cap to 125,000

Since Biden entered the White House, however, the refugee debate has taken on another antagonistic [...]

27
Apr
Despite High Unemployment, White House Invites More Foreign Workers

The Department of Homeland Security, acting in conjunction with the Department of Labor, announced that [...]

23
Apr
Earth Day 2021: Arizona NEPA Lawsuit v. Feds Puts Environmentalists Back in the Game

Biden’s irresponsible, illegal border permissiveness violates the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), which President Richard [...]

21
Apr
Infrastructure Bill May Include Amnesty

Buttigieg suggested that President Joe Biden’s massive, rambling, incoherent $2.3 trillion American Jobs Plan infrastructure [...]

19
Apr
San Diego Teachers Betray Local Students

Imagine the shock parents must have experienced when they learned that San Diego teachers would [...]

05
Apr
Texas Lawsuit Seeks to End Open Borders

Biden administration denies the obvious, content to let border invasion continue. [...]

31
Mar
Dream Amnesty Bad, Elitist Legislation

Soon the Senate will consider the bill which would grant legal status to about 3 [...]

29
Mar
Atlanta Massacre Shows More Border, Interior Security Needed

Well-known for years is that international sex trafficking into the U.S. is an illegal but [...]

22
Mar
Who’s in Charge: Harris, Rice or Biden?

No compassionate American, including Biden’s voters, supports the border tragedy. But, in an effort to [...]

19
Mar
Willfully Blind White House Ignores Border Chaos

The latest Department of Homeland Security report showed that in February more than 100,000 people [...]

15
Mar
$60,000 of Human Cargo

The motivation is to rush to the border and be physically present in the U.S. [...]

09
Mar
Romney, Cotton Propose Swap: E-Verify for Wage Hike

For those who doubt the inherent wisdom of the old adage that politics makes strange [...]

08
Mar
Border Failures Grow U.S. Population

Ever-growing human populations, with their larger carbon footprint, are a big variable in climate change. [...]

02
Mar
Bad, Transformative Immigration Bill Hits Congress

The 353 pages don’t contain a single provision that helps American citizens or recently arrived [...]

23
Feb
U.S. Workers Brace for Elitists’ Amnesty

Congress today will announce the details of President Biden’s major amnesty that will reward illegal [...]

18
Feb
Biden’s Problematic Polling

Surprisingly, the polls show that President Joe Biden is, after only four weeks in the [...]

16
Feb
Congress Dismisses U.S. Working Class Americans

Nearly 16 million Americans are receiving unemployment benefits, and millions more have stopped looking for [...]

11
Feb
Biden, Borders and America’s Tanked Economy

During February’s first week, alarming news came out of Washington, D.C., and from the Texas-Mexico [...]

09
Feb
Biden’s Administration Gives ‘Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card’ to Criminals

In 1995, Democratic Congresswoman Barbara Jordan argued for immigration policy that worked for Americans; Biden [...]

27
Jan
Biden’s Amnesty Expands U.S. Labor Market

If there’s one thing that President Biden has made abundantly clear, it’s that he will [...]

20
Jan
Recall Calif. Gov. Newsom, Part VI

Facebook has two pages that are, unsurprisingly, picking up a host of new followers: “Leaving [...]

19
Jan
MLK and the Dignity of Work

Minister and activist Martin Luther King, Jr., became synonymous with the Civil Rights movement from [...]

17
Jan
Trump: The Enemies He Made; the Friends He Kept

In 1924, Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster founded what is today America’s third largest [...]

13
Jan
Transitioning from Trump

Among President Trump’s 75 million-strong voters, the day’s biggest question is what he’ll do during [...]

08
Jan
Cruz Blocks Chinese Spy Bill

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, a conservative Republican, gave his 2016 presidential campaign a good go. [...]

04
Jan
Biden’s Goal Must be Tight Labor Market

Immigration advocates have a watchful eye on the Southwest border these days, where multiple reports [...]

21
Dec
Tight Asylum Rules Protect the Homeland

As President Trump’s White House days dwindle, he’s taking strong action to shore up measures [...]

16
Dec
Chinese Spies Subvert Clueless Congress

A Chinese spy scandal is rocking Capitol Hill, and little wonder. The Eric Swalwell-Fang Fang [...]

15
Dec
Biden’s Looming Population Surge

More than 70 million Americans hope that President Trump can pull off the seemingly impossible, [...]

09
Dec
Georgia: From Red to Purple to Blue

All eyes are on Georgia, and the January 5, 2021, special U.S. Senate election. On [...]

03
Dec
Alexander Mayorkas
Obama’s Gang is Back in Town

As President Trump weighs which course he may walk as his White House days grow [...]

30
Nov
Trump Goes Down Swinging

Into the already roiling Capitol Hill atmosphere comes another powder keg. The Hill, a Washington, [...]

24
Nov
Biden: Americans Last!

For the roughly 70 million disappointed America First voters, dark clouds have already formed over [...]

20
Nov
Pelosi: Dem Heroine or Albatross?

To some Democrats, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi seems invulnerable. This year, two Pelosi events that [...]

09
Nov
Surprise! Americans Will Work at Tony Resorts

For more than three decades, America’s skilled and unskilled workers have been forced to compete [...]

29
Oct
Biden’s Amnesty Gamble

Immigration, the nation’s most contentious domestic issue, finally got airtime in the final debate between [...]

26
Oct
Social Security fraud
Identity Theft Occurs Every Two Seconds

In its 2018 analysis, the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) uncovered potentially 39 million identity [...]

22
Oct
U.S. Immigration is Big News in Central America

South of the U.S./Mexico border, the presidential race is being watched with keen interest. In [...]

19
Oct
VP Debate Missed Kamala’s Poor Worker Rights Record

When Joe Biden chose California Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate, he went against [...]

09
Oct
Election 2020
Debate Losers: Biden, Wallace, Trump

After the first presidential debate mercifully ended, Fox News analyst and moderator Chris Wallace called [...]

30
Sep
TPS
TPS: An Endless Immigration Program

Since the Immigration Act of 1990 created Temporary Protected Status, the program has become vampire-like [...]

22
Sep
Black
Juan Williams: Black Jobs Don’t Matter

With less than two months until Election Day 2020, more and more news stories are [...]

15
Sep
Tom Seaver and Baseball’s Altered Game

Baseball fans will be a long-time mourning Tom Seaver’s passing. “Tom Terrific” was an icon [...]

08
Sep
Labor
On Labor Day, Protect U.S. Workers

Labor Day kicks off the final stretch toward the Election Day showdown between incumbent President [...]

03
Sep
Trump
Post-Trump EO, U.S. Workers Hired

Vindicated! For employment-based visa critics who have railed for more than three decades that each [...]

28
Aug
Pompeo
Pompeo Subverts Trump’s Immigration Order

Capitol Hill insiders speculate that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has already begun, although somewhat [...]

17
Aug
Immigration
Immigration Winners, Losers, Inbetweeners

In early August, ILW.com reported that Southern District of Mississippi U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst announced [...]

13
Aug
Border
Meanwhile, Down on the Border…

For the last two months, the roiling immigration debate has centered around President Trump’s Executive [...]

11
Aug
Visa Lottery Winners Sue Trump

The Trump administration is a sitting duck for immigration-related lawsuits. Several hundred have been filed. [...]

29
Jul
California Mounts Recall of Gov. Newsom

Californians – or at least some Californians – are fighting back against Gov. Gavin Newsom’s [...]

28
Jul
Gallup
Gallup Immigration Poll Omits Most Important Question

A Gallup Poll conducted between May 28 and June 4, a period that pre-dates President [...]

07
Jul
American
Trump Acts to Defend American Workers

Finally! After nearly three decades of pleading to deaf Republican and Democratic congresses for a [...]

23
Jun
Asylum
Trump Administration Announces New, Overdue Asylum Guidelines

Recently, the Departments of Homeland Security and Justice announced a new regulation that would overhaul [...]

16
Jun
Population Stabilization or Higher Immigration?
Americans Can’t Have Both

Today more than ever Americans value the opportunity to escape from their confined urban lives [...]

12
Jun
Globalists Push for More Worker Visas

The May jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics dumbfounded economists and made Wall [...]

08
Jun
Gavin Newsom, 2007, San Francisco
Slash California’s $54 Billion Deficit by Enforcing Immigration Laws

California’s Department of Finance announced that the state faces a mammoth $54 billion COVID-19-created deficit which [...]

04
Jun
Media
A Call for Re-Regulation of Media

Population and immigration-reduction activists (and everyone else) have a right – under ETHICAL journalism – [...]

28
May
COVID
Top Priority: Protect The Productive Class

The next few weeks will tell whether the United States is a serious nation that’s [...]

19
May
Kushner
Unemployment, Bankruptcies Grow; Is Kushner Still All-In on Guest Workers?

A persuasive argument can be made that President Trump’s most trusted White House confidant is [...]

08
May
Congress
Economy be Damned; Congress Wants More Tech, Health Care Green Cards

No matter how beaten down American workers are or how dim their employment prospects, the [...]

05
May
Trump
Explained: Why Trump Backpedaled on his Immigration Order

Just hours after President Trump announced that his Executive Order would pause most immigration to [...]

28
Apr
Immigrant
L.A. Mayor Garcetti’s Response to Unemployment Crisis: Pre-Paid Debit Cards for Illegal Immigrants

The handful of journalists who have spent decades on the immigration beat have a saying: [...]

27
Apr
Doctors
Congress Keeps U.S. Doctors Sidelined while Championing International Doctors

Congress, immigration advocacy groups and immigration lawyers are urging the Trump administration to increase the [...]

15
Apr
Immigration
Neither Coronavirus nor Soaring Unemployment Stops Immigration

If President Trump is, as he claimed, leading “America’s all-out war” against the coronavirus, he [...]

03
Apr
Graham
Sen. Graham’s EB-5 Proposal Exposes Him as Immigration Expansionist

Former U.S. Rep. Joe Wyatt, a Texas Democrat, has a great line that exposes the [...]

24
Mar
Trump
On Immigration, Trump Promises One Thing, Does the Opposite

Predictably, the Trump administration added 35,000 temporary H-2B visas that will allow foreign nationals to [...]

23
Mar
Sanders
Fading Candidate Sanders Identifies Guest Worker Visas as ‘Slavery’

After getting routed in the Arizona, Illinois and Florida St. Patrick’s Day Democratic primaries, Sen. [...]

19
Mar
Birth Tourism
Coronavirus Doing What Feds Won’t, Shutting down Birth Tourism Hotels

The coronavirus may end up being the vehicle that shuts down fraudulent birth tourism hotels, [...]

16
Mar
Immigration
Latest Fake Immigration Crisis: No Chefs!

March is too early to drag out that old, long-ago discredited “crops are rotting in [...]

10
Mar
Borders
Borders? We Don’t Need No Stinking Borders!

It’s rather startling that not more has been said about the suspension of flights to [...]

02
Mar
Mulvaney
Mulvaney: U.S. ‘Desperate’ for More People

One Capitol Hill lead pipe certainty: every year Congress will try to pass legislation to [...]

26
Feb
Immigration
Buttigieg’s Bad Immigration Idea

Pete Buttigieg, one of the surviving Democratic presidential candidates, goes from up to down to [...]

20
Feb
Texas
We could put everyone in the world in an area the size of Texas, but they would be dead within a week

“If every member of the United States lived in an area with the population density [...]

19
Feb
sanctuary
Heavyweights Prepare to Duke it Out on Immigration: Trump v. Sanctuary State California

In his State of the Union address, President Trump made clear his disgust with sanctuary [...]

11
Feb
Once Again We Were Attacked by The SPLC

We recently found ourselves once again attacked and maligned by the hobgoblins at the Southern [...]

09
Feb
SOTU: Trump Misses Opportunity to Distance Himself from Presidential Challengers

A triumphant but low-key President Trump took to center stage Tuesday night at the U.S. [...]

05
Feb
California
Unraveling California’s Quick, but Complete Demise

Through incredibly good fortune, I’ve been unable to watch the tedious impeachment trial. I’m traveling [...]

31
Jan
Birth Tourism
Birthright Citizenship and its Cousin Birth Tourism under Administration’s Microscope

Amidst Washington, D.C.’s impeachment hysteria, the Trump administration has taken aim at the lowest hanging [...]

21
Jan
Uber
Uber is the Latest Cheap Labor-Addicted Employer to Lay Off Americans, Hire H-1Bs

Uber, the multinational ride-hailing company that burst onto the scene in 2009, and made Yellow [...]

13
Jan
ndaa liberia approved
Sneaky Congress up to its Old Tricks; Stealth Amnesty for Liberians

Recently, I’ve become addicted to the Weather Channel. The reason is simple. Every word that [...]

1 Comment

06
Jan
immigration poll
The Great Divide: Congress and Voters on Immigration

A year-end Associated Press poll showed that the two top 2019 stories were, first, the [...]

06
Jan
Immigration
California Population Hits 40 Million, Leadership Encourages More Immigration

The California Department of Finance announced that the state’s population fell just 40,000 people short [...]

30
Dec
visa applications
New Report: 9 Million Temporary Visas Issued to Nonimmigrants in FY 2018; Many Overstay to Work

The Migration Policy Institute, which describes itself as a nonpartisan think tank that seeks “to [...]

3 Comments

23
Dec
Open Borders
Open Borders Are a Trillion-Dollar Mistake

Editor’s Note: Last month, Foreign Policy  ran an article, “Open Borders Are a Trillion-Dollar Idea,” which [...]

3 Comments

20
Dec
ag workers
Never-Say-Die House Passes Another Ag Amnesty

Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Farm Workforce Modernization Act of 2019 [...]

16
Dec
employment
BLS Report Encouraging to Vulnerable Hispanics, Blacks and the Disabled

As if the unappetizing buffet of presidential candidates isn’t troublesome enough for the Democratic Party, [...]

09
Dec
Elitist Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom Ignores Crisis in his Sacramento Backyard

I recently returned to my Pittsburgh home from a trip to Sacramento. I went reluctantly. [...]

26
Nov
Senate Seeks to Reward Wealthy Foreign Investors with Citizenship-for-Sale Green Cards

While Congress is focused on impeachment, impeachment and more impeachment drama, a proposed behind-the-scenes bill [...]

21
Nov
New Report:
53 Million Americans Hold Low-Wage Jobs

The Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program just released a study that casts serious doubt on [...]

14
Nov
Vets May Wonder if their Service Was in Vain: Open Borders, Illegal Alien Entitlements Undermine Sacrifices

Of the 16 million Americans who served in World War II, about 389,000 veterans are [...]

07
Nov
Coming Soon, a Borderless U.S.

Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) shocked most observers, including her New England neighbor and fellow [...]

06
Nov
Chicago Teacher Strike
Chicago Teachers’ Strike: Historically High Immigration Makes Capping Classroom Sizes Impossible

Chicago’s 25,000 public schoolteachers are on strike, with a grievance list familiar to all educators [...]

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29
Oct
Eric Holder to 2020 Dems: Tone Down Immigration Rhetoric or Lose

Every week, immigration stories demonstrate how frustratingly elusive, even after decades, common sense reform that [...]

15
Oct
PFIR Response to WaPo Story of ‘Indians Stranded in India’

PFIR’s Excecutive Director responds to the Oct. 3, 2019, WaPo article, “A D.C. family stranded [...]

08
Oct
BLS Report Reflects Lower Average Wages: An Explanation

As the classic Johnny Mercer/ Harold Arlen tune goes, let’s “Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive.” The White [...]

07
Oct
Trump’s 18,000 Refugee Cap Sends Immigration Boosters into Tailspin

No sooner had the State Department announced that it would cut the refugee cap to [...]

03
Oct
Congressional Immigration Failures Cause Record 1 Million Court Backlog

Countless reports, all based on irrefutable federal data, have been published that show immigration non-action [...]

02
Oct
Ag Secretary Calls for More Guest Workers as ‘Solution’ to Immigration Problem

Every time an immigration conflict appears on the horizon, expansionists press for one of two [...]

17
Sep
Biden Pressing for Higher Immigration, Disregards Environmental Consequences

With Round 3 of the Democratic president debates set for this Thursday, the nation should [...]

10
Sep
August BLS Report Omits Key Data Revealing Future Worker Challenges, including Immigration and Robotics

Shortly after the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its August report which showed that the [...]

09
Sep
Human Vs. Wildlife On Planet Earth

Made with Visme Infographic Maker [...]

08
Sep
Elon Musk Might Be Right About a Global Population Collapse, But for the Wrong Reason

For some time, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been using his ample platform to sound [...]

06
Sep
California Off the Rails, State a Disaster Zone

When former California Gov. Jerry Brown announced his ill-conceived, ill-fated high-speed train that no one [...]

03
Sep
Projecting Population Growth to 2100
September 1, 2019

About the Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement Project   Immigration has a huge influence on the [...]

Labor Day: Four Decades of Dramatic CEO Income Growth; Peanuts for Workers

A recent Economic Policy Institute Study titled “CEO Compensation Has Grown 940% since 1978” is [...]

29
Aug
What is the Greatest Threat to Endangered Species? Hint: It’s Not Trump’s New Rules

The Trump administration is about to implement new rules that it claims will “modernize” and [...]

27
Aug
Public charge before America
Public Charge Rule is Pro-Immigrant, Pro-America

No sooner had the Trump administration announced its intention to impose a new rule that [...]

21
Aug
Donald Trump, Elijah Cummings, Maxine Waters and the Neoliberal Abandonment of America’s Industrial Cities

In a recent fit of pique, after having been attacked for weeks by U.S. Rep. [...]

16
Aug
Abolishing ICE, Eliminating Borders are Dangerous Ideas

In today’s polarized America, and in the midst of an increasingly bitter, partisan presidential campaign, [...]

13
Aug
To Increase Wages, Mandate E-Verify, Shrink Labor Market

Democratic presidential candidates have unanimously embraced the $15 federal minimum wage. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi [...]

05
Aug
H-1B Displaces U.S. Teachers, Drives Down Wages

The H-1B visa that allows U.S. employers to temporarily employ foreign workers in specialty occupations [...]

30
Jul
Trump Administration Proposes Zero Refugees in 2020

During a recent meeting with the Department of Homeland Security, the State Department and about [...]

24
Jul
Lofgren, Legislating on Behalf of Foreign Nationals, Ignores Booming San Jose Homelessness

Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives rammed through HR 1044, a job-busting bill that [...]

18
Jul
A New Summer Brings the Predictable Foreign Worker Exploitation

Summers come and go. And some are more memorable than others – better weather, extraordinary [...]

15
Jul
World Population Day 2019

Made with Visme Infographic Maker [...]

10
Jul
At the Border, the Word is Out: Come One, Come All

Haitians join Central Americans, Africans and would-be asylees from dozens of nations [...]

09
Jul
The Border Crisis: Taking the Long-Term View

In one of her final appearances before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, [...]

24
Jun
OPT optional practical training
Anatomy of a U.S. Job Killer: The Optional Practical Training Program

OPT up 400% between 2016 and 2018. End program now! [...]

21
Jun
Immigration and Ice Cream: My Week with a DV Winner

Based on results of the diversity visa program since 1990, more immigration and a higher [...]

13
Jun
Is the U.S. Full? No, It’s Overfull

The latest pro-immigration talking point is that since the U.S. has an abundance of wide-open [...]

06
Jun
Paroled Central Americans Compete for U.S. Blue-Collar Workers’ Jobs

Because Congress has for more than a decade steadfastly refused to close the asylum loopholes, [...]

30
May
Graham Border Bill Would End Human Trafficking, Tighten Labor Markets, Ease Hospital and School Overcrowding

Better late than never – words that apply to Sen. Lindsey Graham’s new bill that [...]

20
May
Doing the Math: Long-Term Population Consequence of Border Asylum Seekers

The immediacy of the U.S.-Mexico border emergency is shocking, almost unfathomable, as we appear to [...]

08
May
PFIR @ EarthX 2019

As in prior years, PFIR had the opportunity to participate in EarthX 2019, in Dallas, [...]

04
May
Eagle Pass, once-sleepy Texas town, is now at core of border security debate
Mexico raids freight train carrying migrants

published 2019-05-01 22:17:57 by [ad_1] MEXICO CITY – Mexican federal police and immigration agents have [...]

01
May
Post-Earth Day Thoughts about Sustainability

Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson’s daughter Tia recently said that her father would be “deeply [...]

30
Apr
Eagle Pass, once-sleepy Texas town, is now at core of border security debate
Mexican police detain hundreds of Central American migrants

published 2019-04-22 15:11:39 by [ad_1] PIJIJIAPAN, Mexico – Mexican police and immigration agents have detained [...]

22
Apr
Earth Day 2019: Since Neil Armstrong Walked on the Moon, Global Population has Doubled

Fifty years ago, in 1969 when astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk [...]

21
Apr
Eagle Pass, once-sleepy Texas town, is now at core of border security debate
Mexican city bars caravan, says migrants are safety threat

published 2019-04-16 13:02:10 by [ad_1] MEXICO CITY – Municipal authorities in the southern Mexican state [...]

16
Apr
The National Resident Matching Program No Longer Meets Doctor Needs

The National Resident Matching Program No Longer Meets Doctor Needs American Med School Students Graduate without [...]

15
Apr
Eagle Pass, once-sleepy Texas town, is now at core of border security debate
Migrants break border gate, force their way into Mexico

published 2019-04-12 14:28:20 by [ad_1] MEXICO CITY – Mexican authorities say that a group of [...]

12
Apr
More Employment-Based Visas Swiftly Approved, E-Verify Stuck ‘on the Table’

This weekend, President Trump, frustrated with her ineffectiveness, asked for and received the resignation of [...]

10
Apr
$15 Minimum Wage Imploding; Tight Labor Market Better Path to Higher Income

Raising and sustaining higher wages for American workers is impossible as long as the labor [...]

02
Apr
Trump done playing 'nice' at the border; Biden has potential 'Creepy Uncle Joe' problem
Trump done playing ‘nice’ at the border; Biden has potential ‘Creepy Uncle Joe’ problem

published 2019-04-01 04:46:35 President Donald Trump holds a campaign rally at Van Andel Arena in [...]

01
Apr
Caravan of 40 Salvadoran migrants sets out for US border
Caravan of 40 Salvadoran migrants sets out for US border

published 2019-03-30 13:04:49 by [ad_1] SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador – The “mother of all caravans” [...]

30
Mar
Eagle Pass, once-sleepy Texas town, is now at core of border security debate
Mexico braces for new caravan of Central American migrants

published 2019-03-28 14:31:25 by [ad_1] MEXICO CITY – Mexico is bracing for the possible arrival [...]

28
Mar
NY Times Reporter Reveals Her Immigration Stories’ Sources: Lawyers and Immigrants

In a recent interview, New York Times immigration reporter Miriam Jordan revealed how she goes about [...]

28
Mar
Eagle Pass, once-sleepy Texas town, is now at core of border security debate
Mexico to set up CentAm migrant ‘containment’ belt in south

published 2019-03-28 01:04:03 by [ad_1] MEXICO CITY – Faced with an increasing flow of Central [...]

28
Mar
Eagle Pass, once-sleepy Texas town, is now at core of border security debate
New migrant caravan of 2,500 sets out through Mexico for US

published 2019-03-26 11:02:40 by [ad_1] MEXICO CITY – A new migrant caravan of about 2,500 [...]

26
Mar
Congress Ignores World Water Day Warnings

Friday, March 22 is World Water Day, a day designated to raise awareness about the [...]

21
Mar
More Immigration Incompatible with Layoffs, Automation

The Economic Policy Institute recently released its U.S. wage study. Titled “State of Working America [...]

19
Mar
Continued Immigration Hard on Existing Immigrants, Native-Born Alike

A case can be made that those who suffer the most from never-ending immigration are [...]

18
Mar
Eagle Pass, once-sleepy Texas town, is now at core of border security debate
Mexican top cop: security is deficient throughout country

published 2019-03-12 16:58:50 by [ad_1] MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s top security official says that “security [...]

12
Mar
Lousy February BLS Report: Blip or Grim Omen?

On second thought, maybe the United States’ job market isn’t as strong as President Trump [...]

12
Mar
Eagle Pass, once-sleepy Texas town, is now at core of border security debate
Senators seek briefing on journalist, activist surveillance

published 2019-03-11 18:32:56 WASHINGTON – Top lawmakers on the Senate Finance Committee are requesting an [...]

11
Mar
Government kept tabs on journalists, 'instigators'
Government kept tabs on journalists, ‘instigators’

published 2019-03-07 12:30:52 by [ad_1] FILE – This Nov. 25, 2018 file photo shows migrants [...]

07
Mar
U.S. Universities Educate 1.6 Million International Students, Creating Winners and Losers

Nearly 1.6 million international university students were enrolled in the U.S., according to the most [...]

06
Mar
Why Immigration Reform Failed in 1986: To Find Out, Do the Math

I’m a native Californian who grew up in the 1950s when the state was truly [...]

28
Feb
Border agents install razor wire at El Paso bridges
Border agents install razor wire at El Paso bridges

published 2019-02-22 12:04:17 by [ad_1] In this Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019 photo, migrants from Central [...]

22
Feb
Finally! Federal Indictments against Birth Tourism Criminals

As the old saying goes, half a loaf is better than none. Today’s subject isn’t [...]

22
Feb
Venezuelans travel to border in caravan to pick up aid
Venezuelans travel to border in caravan to pick up aid

published 2019-02-21 09:49:53 by [ad_1] CORRECTS SPELLING OF GUAIDO – Venezuela’s self-proclaimed interim president Juan [...]

21
Feb
Overpopulated, Income-Unequal California Finds Solution: More Immigration!

Only a few of us are still around – native-born Californians who lived in the [...]

18
Feb
Swamp Swallows Trump

President Trump wants more people to come to the United States! With my own two [...]

13
Feb
Some in migrant caravan seek jobs on Mexican side of border
Some in migrant caravan seek jobs on Mexican side of border

published 2019-02-12 14:32:30 by [ad_1] Six-year-old Daniela Fernanda Portillo Burgos sits on the shoulders of [...]

12
Feb
The Latest: US jury convicts El Chapo on all counts
The Latest: US jury convicts El Chapo on all counts

published 2019-02-12 12:46:26 FILE – In this Jan. 19, 2017 file photo provided U.S. law [...]

12
Feb
Trump Zig-Zags on Immigration
in State of the Union Address

In his State of the Union address, President Trump said some of the right things [...]

08
Feb
Migrant caravan still held up in Mexican border shelter
Migrant caravan still held up in Mexican border shelter

published 2019-02-07 19:14:13 by [ad_1] Honduran Delia Romero, 24, sits with her children in their [...]

07
Feb
Trump Organization Adopts E-Verify; Mandatory Nationwide Use Could Follow

Last week, the Trump Organization, an umbrella group that oversees more than 500 companies which [...]

04
Feb
Pentagon sending 3,750 more troops to Mexico border
Pentagon sending 3,750 more troops to Mexico border

published 2019-02-03 16:04:48 by [ad_1] Soldiers from the Tennessee Army National Guard keep an eye [...]

03
Feb
Immigration Foils Small Classroom Fantasy of L.A. Teachers

If any reader can describe a more comic-tragic state than Los Angeles Unified School District [...]

31
Jan
Mechanization is Permanent Solution to Ag Labor Shortage

California Democrats Sen. Dianne Feinstein and U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren recently reintroduced bicameral legislation to [...]

28
Jan
In Federal Court, Exploited Foreign Workers Score Big Win

If asked to identify the most unnecessary visa, hurtful to American workers and prospective workers, [...]

28
Jan
Sean Hannity: Chuck and Nancy, you can work with Trump, do what's right for the US or be obstructionists
Sean Hannity: Chuck and Nancy, you can work with Trump, do what’s right for the US or be obstructionists

[ad_1] Numerous Democrats, both in the House and the Senate for the last two weeks, [...]

27
Jan
Trump renews call to 'build the wall' after reopening government, warns 'both parties very dug in'
Trump renews call to ‘build the wall’ after reopening government, warns ‘both parties very dug in’

[ad_1] President Trump on Saturday promised supporters that the wall on the southern border will [...]

26
Jan
Democrats who say there is no threat of terrorists crossing our border are delusional
Democrats who say there is no threat of terrorists crossing our border are delusional

[ad_1] The border fence between San Diego, Calif., and Tijuana, Mexico, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019. [...]

26
Jan
H-1B Visa Program Outsources Hundreds of U.S. Media Jobs
H-1B Visa Program Outsources Hundreds of U.S. Media Jobs

[ad_1] Hundreds of American journalists, editors, computer experts, and videographers are being laid off from their [...]

24
Jan
Oracle Discriminated Against Blacks, Women in Favor of Foreigners
Oracle Discriminated Against Blacks, Women in Favor of Foreigners

[ad_1] Multinational corporation Oracle America, Inc., a computer technology firm, discriminated against black American employees and [...]

23
Jan
Trump challenges Pelosi on why she wants to keep border walls she calls 'immoral'
Trump challenges Pelosi on why she wants to keep border walls she calls ‘immoral’

[ad_1] President Trump on Monday challenged House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has called the White [...]

21
Jan
Reformers Worry Trump Deal will Encourage More Illegal Immigration
Reformers Worry Trump Deal will Encourage More Illegal Immigration

[ad_1] Pro-American immigration reformers say President Trump’s plan to offer a work permit amnesty to [...]

19
Jan
How the State of the Union became a broadcast event
How the State of the Union became a broadcast event

[ad_1] High school social studies teachers now have the easiest job in America. Imagine what [...]

18
Jan
College-Grad Voters Slam Trump's Support for H-1B Program
College-Grad Voters Slam Trump’s Support for H-1B Program

President Donald Trump’s tweeted support for foreign H-1B outsourcing workers is a betrayal of his [...]

16
Jan
Tucker Carlson: Millions of US jobs are about to vanish, so why does DC want to import more unskilled workers?
Tucker Carlson: Millions of US jobs are about to vanish, so why does DC want to import more unskilled workers?

[ad_1] The government shutdown continues as the debate over a border wall enters its fourth [...]

11
Jan
Trump Plans 'Potential Pathway to Citizenship' for Foreign H-1B Workers
Trump Plans ‘Potential Pathway to Citizenship’ for Foreign H-1B Workers

[ad_1] President Trump says he plans to offer foreign workers imported to the United States [...]

11
Jan
Call to Journalists: Return to Your Abandoned Professional Standards

On New Year’s Eve, The Washington Post published a shockingly biased, even as measured in the [...]

07
Jan
Christmas in New York: A Cautionary Tale

I’ve seen the major U.S. metropolis’ future, and the picture is bleak. A New York [...]

01
Jan
Lackluster November Jobs Report Bodes Poorly for 2019

An unspectacular Bureau of Labor Statistics November report casts doubt on the health of the [...]

11
Dec
Despite Strong Case, U.S. Tech Workers Lose Tata Discrimination Suit

U.S. tech workers suffered a startling federal court defeat when an Oakland, Calif., jury ruled [...]

10
Dec
Japan Gambles on Guest Workers as U.S. Poised to Double a Cheap Labor Visa Program

In a surprising departure from Japan’s low-immigration history, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe recently agreed to [...]

02
Dec
Fed OPT Program Hits Record High; U.S. Worker Displacement Unabated

Optional Practical Training (OPT), a temporary employment program for foreign undergraduate and grad students on [...]

29
Nov
California’s Worst Wildfires Must be a Wake-Up Call

For California natives like me, the wildfires are a real gut punch. As of this [...]

16
Nov
After Midterms, U.S. Tech Workers Still Friendless in Congress

In Kansas’ Third District, IT has a strong presence with Microsoft, Google and Amazon. Over [...]

11
Nov
Back in the Headlines Again: Birthright Citizenship

If President Trump’s promise to end birthright citizenship does nothing else, it will spark the long [...]

31
Oct
Verizon Lays Off 44,000; American Workers Left in Lurch

The headline financial news story of late is Verizon’s announcement that it offered a voluntary [...]

18
Oct
Latest DHS Report: Raining Work Permits for New Immigrants

If I had a dollar for every time I heard someone say that he opposes [...]

09
Oct
California, Once ‘Eternal Verdure,’ Now Overpopulated Nightmare

In 1845, Lansford W. Hastings, best known for developing the Hastings Cutoff, a travelers’ shortcut [...]

05
Oct
Doubters Challenge Report that Illegal Immigration is Twice as High as Traditional Estimates

“The number of undocumented immigrants in the United States: Estimates based on demographic modeling with [...]

28
Sep
Fed Chair Calls Slow Wage Growth ‘A Puzzle,’ Ever-Expanding Foreign-Born Force Unaddressed

In its new study, “Tapping the Skills of Highly Skilled Immigrants in the United States,” [...]

17
Sep
Countless Employment-Based Visas Undermine American Workers

Dozens of federally issued employment-based visas granted to foreign workers offer multiple opportunities to deny [...]

14
Sep
AMA Lobbies for More Foreign Doctors, but Qualified Americans Shut Out

Last month, the American Medical Association issued a press release that urged U.S. Citizenship and Immigration [...]

1 Comment

10
Sep
Prioritizing Hiring American Doctors Should be the Standard

Outsourcing U.S. jobs to foreign markets followed by replacing local workers with foreign laborers has [...]

1 Comment

10
Sep
High-Tech Companies’ Lobbying Efforts in Full Gear for Foreign Workers

A telling Mercury News story pits high-tech industry leaders against the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, [...]

04
Sep
Sol Trujillo Has It Wrong on Immigration & Labor

In his Wall Street Journal opinion piece of August 29, entitled “The Latino Factor Will [...]

1 Comment

31
Aug
Labor Day is No Celebration for Struggling Americans

Trying to figure out how many employment-based visas the State Department issues is a dizzying [...]

31
Aug
GOP Swamp Alligators Busy Subverting U.S. Workers

From an unlikely place, deep red Kansas, comes a plot to add to the cheap [...]

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22
Aug
Visa Overstays Problematic for U.S. Tech Workers

The Department of Homeland Security’s recently released Entry/Exit Overstay Report on visa overstays found that more [...]

20
Aug
Stunning Dereliction of Duty to Protect: Feds Won’t Track Visa Overstays

The Department of Homeland Security’s latest Entry/Exit Overstay Report represents more disappointing evidence that the U.S. [...]

13
Aug
Refugee Industry Heads to Capitol Hill, Ignores Church State Separation

The refugee resettlement industry is in full panic mode. Some may question whether “industry” is [...]

12
Aug
Finally! U.S. Tech Workers’ Prospects Improving

In 2007, the Pittsburgh-based law firm Cohen & Grigsby hosted an immigration seminar in which [...]

07
Aug
Trump’s Wall is the Wrong Priority; E-Verify Protects Border

Once, August was a tranquil time on Capitol Hill. But that’s no longer the case. [...]

1 Comment

03
Aug
Commit to Sustainability For Earth Overshoot Day

Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity has used more from nature than our [...]

01
Aug
Earth Overshoot Day Offers Sustainability Lessons

Tomorrow will mark Earth Overshoot Day, the day that worldwide humanity will, in only seven months, [...]

31
Jul
Tighter Employment-Based Visa Guidelines are Good for American Workers

Some of President Trump’s immigration campaign promises are inching along and may never be realized. [...]

27
Jul
Report: Prospects for Reducing Rush-Hour Traffic ‘Dim’

Summer is half over which means that many people have taken their traditional driving vacation, [...]

23
Jul
Some 600 Detained Migrants Are Pregnant, Will Bear Citizen Children

In as troubling an immigration story as anyone will read this summer, between December 2017 [...]

1 Comment

22
Jul
Melting Down Over ICE

Calls to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement began as whispers, but today are a lion’s-roar [...]

19
Jul
As U.S. Population Rises, Environmental Leaders Ignore the Obvious

The Washington Post recently published a column titled “Why do we need more people in this [...]

17
Jul
Still Reeling from Maria, Puerto Rico Braces for Hurricane Season

Back in February, I returned to Puerto Rico, my home for many years, and the birthplace [...]

12
Jul
PFIR’s World Population Day Video

If you don’t care to read our UN World Population Day blog, just watch the [...]

11
Jul
Observing Our Impact This World Population Day

July 11th is recognized as UN World Population Day. Beginning in 1989, a day to focus [...]

10
Jul
Visa Holders Homeward Bound? If so, a Boost for American Workers

During the upcoming mid-term elections, the 35 Senate races and the 435 House of Representatives [...]

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09
Jul
Supreme Court Refugee Decision Tightens Labor Market

Put aside the victory lap that Trump administration is taking over the Supreme Court’s 5-4 [...]

2 Comments

03
Jul
On Independence Day, America Struggles to Remain Sovereign

For decades, Democratic and Republican White Houses have winked at border and interior immigration enforcement, [...]

02
Jul
After Amnesty Defeat, Paul Ryan Prepares His Exit

In a fitting boot out the door, lame duck House Speaker Paul Ryan’s amnesty bill, [...]

29
Jun
Permanent Family Separation, an American Tragedy

This Father’s Day, I got a call from another Dad, my friend Billy Inman. Billy’s [...]

22
Jun
Paul Ryan Pushing Towards Amnesty? The Latest in the Immigration Fight

Amnesty spawns illegal immigration, a talking point enforcement advocates repeatedly make. Because the math conclusively [...]

18
Jun
California Gov. Brown Faces Reality Check

A few weeks ago, I turned down an all-expenses-paid invitation to attend a late summer [...]

14
Jun
Congress Debates Amnesty as White House Quiet on E-Verify

The big week on Capitol Hill that featured a much ballyhooed immigration meeting between party [...]

12
Jun
H-1B Fraud, Abuse Tip Line Lighting Up

Suddenly, emails are pouring in! On April 3, 2017, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) [...]

07
Jun
May Jobs Report Shows Big Gains for Foreign-Born Workers

The heralded Bureau of Labor Statistics report has an interesting, but unreported on, component in [...]

1 Comment

05
Jun
2018 Graduates: Beware Jobs Market Landmines

In June, about four million teenagers will graduate from high school, and another three million [...]

04
Jun
DHS Shock Announcement: More Employment-Based Visas, Fewer American Jobs

Federal agencies that deal with immigration love to deliver bad news late on Friday afternoon. [...]

31
May
California Gubernatorial Hopefuls Share Same Platform of Building More Housing

California’s six gubernatorial candidates – four Democrats and two Republicans – have one common platform: build [...]

2 Comments

29
May
Congress’ Memorial Day Goal: Give Millions Amnesty?

In 2014, more than two years before he became Secretary of Defense, United States Marine [...]

22
May
Obscure Federal Program Aggressively Displaces American Workers

The federal government has created yet another immigration employment hurdle for U.S. science, technology, engineering [...]

2 Comments

17
May
AP Orders Reporters: Stop Using ‘Chain Migration’

The establishment media has dramatically moved away from using precise language in its reporting of [...]

14
May
Trump, Feds, Sanction 21st Century Slave Labor

“With President Trump, you never know.” Those were the exact words a U.S. Senate legislative [...]

11
May
NAFTA 2.0 Poses Major Threats to U.S. Workers

The Mexican and Canadian governments are pushing the White House to step up the North [...]

07
May
State Department Program Shuts Out U.S. Youth from Summer Jobs

With summer just weeks away, teenagers and college students looking for seasonal employment will have [...]

01
May
All Eyes on Supreme Court, Trump v. Hawaii

Observing the Swamp during the last few weeks, one trend is clear: federal courts are [...]

30
Apr
What You Should Know About The Central American Caravan

Weeks ago, a 1,500-strong caravan of Central American migrants headed north. Along the way, partly in [...]

25
Apr
Paradise Lost: Sprawl Transformed Honolulu From Utopia to Urban Mess

Let’s be clear from the outset. Travelers who have never visited Honolulu, Hawaii’s capital located [...]

23
Apr
More Cheap Labor Visas, Fewer American Jobs

Judging by the message Congress sends through its quasi-automatic visa approvals, U.S. businesses need overseas [...]

2 Comments

19
Apr
On Earth Day 2018, Congress Whistling Past Graveyard on Population Growth

Last month, the United Nations hosted a Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) conference in Bonn, Germany. [...]

2 Comments

16
Apr
Report: H-1Bs Not ‘Best and Brightest’

Since the Immigration Act of 1990 created the H-1B visa, the debate surrounding its value [...]

14
Apr
Dismal March Labor Report Deflates Jobs Recovery Hype

The March Bureau of Labor Statistics report was a disappointment with the economy adding only 103,000 [...]

09
Apr
NEPA in the Age of Trump

The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) has been called the Magna Carta of our nation’s [...]

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05
Apr
H-1B Visa Opening Day Arrives – 85,000 Tech Job Giveaway as Americans Watch from the Sidelines

With April 3 the Opening Day, so to speak, for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services [...]

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02
Apr
A Californian Warns: ‘Don’t Go West, Young Man’

California, the preferred destination for travelers who took publisher Horace Greeley’s long-ago suggestion to “Go [...]

28
Mar
Intimidation, Rape and Slavery: The Untold Story of H-1B Workers:

Americans are increasingly coming to a better understanding of how the H-1B visa is being used [...]

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27
Mar
Bay Area Campaign Targets H-1B Visas, Asks Congress to Fix on Americans’ Behalf

  In a campaign that strikes at the heart of Silicon Valley hiring practices, Congress [...]

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23
Mar
Fearing H-1B Tightening, Tech Giants Ramp Up Lobbying

Since Congress created the H-1B in 1990, IT services companies have had things go mostly [...]

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19
Mar
Adding Immigrants to Bolster an Aging America is a Ponzi Scheme

Good and possibly great news: the U.S. birthrate continues to trend lower, now at the [...]

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13
Mar
Official Blows Whistle on Illegal Immigrants Working on SoCal Construction Sites

We sat down for an incognito interview with Blaine Taylor (not his real name), a [...]

13
Mar
American Tech Workers Get Good News; Employment-Based H-1B Visa Requirements Toughening

Displaced American IT workers, and recent grads struggling to find a tech job, just received [...]

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06
Mar
Alarming Environmental Report Disingenuously Dodges Overpopulation Link

“Disappearing Rivers,” a Center for American Progress-commissioned report, was introduced to a Washington, D.C. audience [...]

28
Feb
As Illegal Immigration Declines, Employers Forced to Raise Wages

A new Center for Migration Studies (CMS) report showed that between 2010 and 2016, illegal immigration [...]

26
Feb
Feds: EB-5 Visas ‘Rampant with Fraud’

Next month, in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, two EB-5 investors’ conferences will convene. The [...]

23
Feb
On Ending Chain Migration, Senate Grade is an F

Last week, the United States Senate – allegedly the world’s greatest deliberative body – proved [...]

20
Feb
For Immigration, The Status Quo Won’t Save Us

A recent article published in the Los Angeles Times reported that the White House is [...]

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13
Feb
Congress Indifferent to Puerto Rico’s Tragedy; U.S. Citizens Left in the Lurch

After an absence of more than 50 years, I returned to Puerto Rico this month [...]

12
Feb
Despite Wall Street Applause, January BLS Reflects Lingering Wage Woes

Wall Street hailed the January 2018 Bureau of Labor Statistics report as a big winner. [...]

06
Feb
Senate Introduces Bill Intended to Displace U.S. Tech Workers

In one of his final official acts before retiring, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) introduced the [...]

02
Feb
This Friday, Take Time to Respect Wetlands

  Friday, February 2nd is World Wetlands Day, in commemoration of the adoption of the Convention [...]

02
Feb
Trump, Congress Ignore Unsustainable Population Growth, Environmental Consequences

In the State of the Union address, President Trump proposed a four-pillar immigration plan that [...]

31
Jan
What to Expect from Trump’s State of the Union, and Immigration

With President Trump’s first State of the Union address fast approaching, there has been much [...]

29
Jan
Let’s Make A Deal? Harvard Poll Shows Immigration Still a Top Issue

A new poll released by Harvard-Harris shows that immigration is still a top issue across [...]

25
Jan
Interview with Tech Worker and Congressional Candidate Craig DiAngelo

Craig DiAngelo caught the nation’s attention when he was interviewed last year on 60 Minutes [...]

23
Jan
Overpopulation Driving California’s Affordable Housing Crisis

For months, Sacramento has wrung its hands over California’s affordable housing shortage. Print media has [...]

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23
Jan
Both Parties May Prove Open Border Advocates as DACA Debate Looms

In October of 2013, House Republicans refused to compromise on raising the debt ceiling which [...]

18
Jan
MLK Day and the State of the Promise

It is important to reflect on our history as we enter times of great turmoil. [...]

15
Jan