Employment and Immigration

MLK Day and the State of the Promise

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

Dizzying Days in DC as DACA Talks Dominate

Takeaways from President Trump’s January 9 meeting with Congress on deferred action for childhood arrivals [...]

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John Michael Greer Gives His Take On The State of Our Union

  Join us for a riveting podcast where we discuss a broad range of topics [...]

Record Immigration Means More Job Competition for Americans

A new report that drew from Census Bureau and Department of Homeland Security data found [...]

Gutierrez Duplicitous on DACA

There is a joke that goes, “how can you tell when a politician is lying?  [...]

Long Haul Trucker Describes America’s Decline: Excess Development and Immigration

Finn Murphy offers us a striking example of a unique person cutting his own deal [...]

Physicians, Residents and Foreigners Oh My!

I was catching up on reading a stack of newspapers that had piled up while [...]

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Citizenship For Sale with EB-5 Visa

The American visa system is a complex beast, built seemingly to confuse American and immigrant [...]

A Tale of Two Californias, and Our Immigration System

In a recent conference on the economic state of California, historian and commentator Victor Davis [...]

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Immigration Deja Vu

In 1990, a bipartisan commission was formed in Congress in order to critically address our [...]

On Immigration & Citizenship

I read with great interest an article in the October Harper’s entitled A Sport And [...]

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It’s Time to R.A.I.S.E. The Stakes With DACA

Immigration in the United States is a difficult issue to address both politically and emotionally. [...]

Automation is a Grim Reminder of America’s Looming Labor Crisis

Someone I met recently told me about his recent conversations with some senior McDonald’s Corporation officials [...]

Interview: Dr. Ron Hira on the H1-B Visa Program

I had the distinct pleasure of sitting down with Dr. Ron Hira, associate professor of [...]

Don’t Wall Us In

Ever since Donald Trump announced his presidential run in 2015, he has promised his supporters [...]

Will The RAISE Act Raise Employment Prospects

Over the weekend the employment numbers for August were released; 156,000 jobs added might be [...]

General Motors CEO calls for more American STEM workers, coders

The city of Detroit, Michigan was once seen as a beacon of American industry for [...]

IT Workers Stage “You’re Fired” Protest Outside the Whitehouse

This Monday we attended the “You’re Fired!” protest outside of the White House in Washington [...]

Living in L.A. and Homeless

An article was recently published in the Los Angeles Times titled “L.A. County Homelessness Soars.” [...]

Panel Discussion On Current Events, Trends, The Environment, And Politics With Renowned Authors And Commentators

Last Saturday, five nationally-known experts on social and environmental sustainability spoke at a panel discussion [...]

Murray’s “Coming Apart” in USA tells how but not why we got there – Immigration?

Part of my daily routine includes reading a number of national publications in search of [...]