Category Archives: Employment and Immigration

Proposed MLB-Cuba Deal Spells Trouble for U.S. Hopefuls

In December, Major League Baseball (MLB) announced that it had arrived at an agreement with the [...]

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 [...]

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,” [...]

Countless Employment-Based Visas Undermine American Workers

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

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 [...]

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Prioritizing Hiring American Doctors Should be the Standard

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

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, [...]

Sol Trujillo Has It Wrong on Immigration & Labor

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

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Labor Day is No Celebration for Struggling Americans

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

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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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 [...]

Finally! U.S. Tech Workers’ Prospects Improving

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

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. [...]

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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On Independence Day, America Struggles to Remain Sovereign

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

After Amnesty Defeat, Paul Ryan Prepares His Exit

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

California Gov. Brown Faces Reality Check

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

H-1B Fraud, Abuse Tip Line Lighting Up

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

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 [...]

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2018 Graduates: Beware Jobs Market Landmines

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