Category Archives: Immigration Issues

The Great Divide: Congress and Voters on Immigration

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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 [...]

Finally! Federal Indictments against Birth Tourism Criminals

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

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 [...]

Lackluster November Jobs Report Bodes Poorly for 2019

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Back in the Headlines Again: Birthright Citizenship

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

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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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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