Category Archives: Employment and Immigration

Lousy February BLS Report: Blip or Grim Omen?

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

Finally! Federal Indictments against Birth Tourism Criminals

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

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

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

Swamp Swallows Trump

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

Mechanization is Permanent Solution to Ag Labor Shortage

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

In Federal Court, Exploited Foreign Workers Score Big Win

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

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 [...]

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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, [...]

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. [...]