Category Archives: Immigration Issues

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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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 [...]