Category Archives: Immigration Topics

Paradise Lost: Sprawl Transformed Honolulu From Utopia to Urban Mess

Let’s be clear from the outset. Travelers who have never visited Honolulu, Hawaii’s capital located [...]

More Cheap Labor Visas, Fewer American Jobs

Judging by the message Congress sends through its quasi-automatic visa approvals, U.S. businesses need overseas [...]

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On Earth Day 2018, Congress Whistling Past Graveyard on Population Growth

Last month, the United Nations hosted a Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) conference in Bonn, Germany. [...]

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Report: H-1Bs Not ‘Best and Brightest’

Since the Immigration Act of 1990 created the H-1B visa, the debate surrounding its value [...]

Dismal March Labor Report Deflates Jobs Recovery Hype

The March Bureau of Labor Statistics report was a disappointment with the economy adding only 103,000 [...]

NEPA in the Age of Trump

The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) has been called the Magna Carta of our nation’s [...]

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H-1B Visa Opening Day Arrives – 85,000 Tech Job Giveaway as Americans Watch from the Sidelines

With April 3 the Opening Day, so to speak, for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services [...]

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A Californian Warns: ‘Don’t Go West, Young Man’

California, the preferred destination for travelers who took publisher Horace Greeley’s long-ago suggestion to “Go [...]

Intimidation, Rape and Slavery: The Untold Story of H-1B Workers:

Americans are increasingly coming to a better understanding of how the H-1B visa is being used [...]

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Bay Area Campaign Targets H-1B Visas, Asks Congress to Fix on Americans’ Behalf

  In a campaign that strikes at the heart of Silicon Valley hiring practices, Congress [...]

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Adding Immigrants to Bolster an Aging America is a Ponzi Scheme

Good and possibly great news: the U.S. birthrate continues to trend lower, now at the [...]

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Official Blows Whistle on Illegal Immigrants Working on SoCal Construction Sites

We sat down for an incognito interview with Blaine Taylor (not his real name), a [...]

American Tech Workers Get Good News; Employment-Based H-1B Visa Requirements Toughening

Displaced American IT workers, and recent grads struggling to find a tech job, just received [...]

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Alarming Environmental Report Disingenuously Dodges Overpopulation Link

“Disappearing Rivers,” a Center for American Progress-commissioned report, was introduced to a Washington, D.C. audience [...]

As Illegal Immigration Declines, Employers Forced to Raise Wages

A new Center for Migration Studies (CMS) report showed that between 2010 and 2016, illegal immigration [...]

Feds: EB-5 Visas ‘Rampant with Fraud’

Next month, in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, two EB-5 investors’ conferences will convene. The [...]

For Immigration, The Status Quo Won’t Save Us

A recent article published in the Los Angeles Times reported that the White House is [...]

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Congress Indifferent to Puerto Rico’s Tragedy; U.S. Citizens Left in the Lurch

After an absence of more than 50 years, I returned to Puerto Rico this month [...]

Despite Wall Street Applause, January BLS Reflects Lingering Wage Woes

Wall Street hailed the January 2018 Bureau of Labor Statistics report as a big winner. [...]

Senate Introduces Bill Intended to Displace U.S. Tech Workers

In one of his final official acts before retiring, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) introduced the [...]

This Friday, Take Time to Respect Wetlands

  Friday, February 2nd is World Wetlands Day, in commemoration of the adoption of the Convention [...]