Immigration Topics

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
Post-Earth Day Thoughts about Sustainability

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

30
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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