Immigration Topics

California Gov. Brown Faces Reality Check

A few weeks ago, I turned down an all-expenses-paid invitation to attend a late summer [...]

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. [...]

California Gubernatorial Hopefuls Share Same Platform of Building More Housing

California’s six gubernatorial candidates – four Democrats and two Republicans – have one common platform: build [...]

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Congress’ Memorial Day Goal: Give Millions Amnesty?

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

Obscure Federal Program Aggressively Displaces American Workers

The federal government has created yet another immigration employment hurdle for U.S. science, technology, engineering [...]

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AP Orders Reporters: Stop Using ‘Chain Migration’

The establishment media has dramatically moved away from using precise language in its reporting of [...]

Trump, Feds, Sanction 21st Century Slave Labor

“With President Trump, you never know.” Those were the exact words a U.S. Senate legislative [...]

NAFTA 2.0 Poses Major Threats to U.S. Workers

The Mexican and Canadian governments are pushing the White House to step up the North [...]

State Department Program Shuts Out U.S. Youth from Summer Jobs

With summer just weeks away, teenagers and college students looking for seasonal employment will have [...]

All Eyes on Supreme Court, Trump v. Hawaii

Observing the Swamp during the last few weeks, one trend is clear: federal courts are [...]

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 [...]