Immigration Topics

Anatomy of a Flip-Flopper’s Re-Election Campaign – Yoder

The latest Gallup polling puts the congressional approval rate at 19 percent, with 76 percent [...]

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, [...]

Sol Trujillo Has It Wrong on Immigration & Labor

In his Wall Street Journal opinion piece of August 29, entitled “The Latino Factor Will [...]

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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. [...]

Finally! U.S. Tech Workers’ Prospects Improving

In 2007, the Pittsburgh-based law firm Cohen & Grigsby hosted an immigration seminar in which [...]

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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Earth Overshoot Day Offers Sustainability Lessons

Tomorrow will mark Earth Overshoot Day, the day that worldwide humanity will, in only seven months, [...]

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. [...]

Report: Prospects for Reducing Rush-Hour Traffic ‘Dim’

Summer is half over which means that many people have taken their traditional driving vacation, [...]

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 [...]

Still Reeling from Maria, Puerto Rico Braces for Hurricane Season

Back in February, I returned to Puerto Rico, my home for many years, and the birthplace [...]

Observing Our Impact This World Population Day

July 11th is recognized as UN World Population Day. Beginning in 1989, a day to focus [...]