Category Archives: Immigration Issues

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 [...]

Stunning Dereliction of Duty to Protect: Feds Won’t Track Visa Overstays

The Department of Homeland Security’s latest Entry/Exit Overstay Report represents more disappointing evidence that the U.S. [...]

Trump’s Wall is the Wrong Priority; E-Verify Protects Border

Once, August was a tranquil time on Capitol Hill. But that’s no longer the case. [...]

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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. [...]

Some 600 Detained Migrants Are Pregnant, Will Bear Citizen Children

In as troubling an immigration story as anyone will read this summer, between December 2017 [...]

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Melting Down Over ICE

Calls to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement began as whispers, but today are a lion’s-roar [...]

As U.S. Population Rises, Environmental Leaders Ignore the Obvious

The Washington Post recently published a column titled “Why do we need more people in this [...]

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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Supreme Court Refugee Decision Tightens Labor Market

Put aside the victory lap that Trump administration is taking over the Supreme Court’s 5-4 [...]

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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, [...]

Permanent Family Separation, an American Tragedy

This Father’s Day, I got a call from another Dad, my friend Billy Inman. Billy’s [...]

Paul Ryan Pushing Towards Amnesty? The Latest in the Immigration Fight

Amnesty spawns illegal immigration, a talking point enforcement advocates repeatedly make. Because the math conclusively [...]

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 [...]

DHS Shock Announcement: More Employment-Based Visas, Fewer American Jobs

Federal agencies that deal with immigration love to deliver bad news late on Friday afternoon. [...]

Congress’ Memorial Day Goal: Give Millions Amnesty?

In 2014, more than two years before he became Secretary of Defense, United States Marine [...]