At the height of the pandemic, then-President Donald Trump wisely paused certain guestworker admissions, citing widespread unemployment as a result of the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. In January, President Trump signed an extension of thes…
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On March 18, the House of Representatives passed two FAIR-opposed mass amnesty bills that would put nearly over four million illegal aliens on a path to citizenship. The House did this in the midst of a worsening border crisis that Congressional Democr…
The big picture argument against the alphabet soup of guestworker programs (the H-1B, H-2B, H-2A, etc.) is that they are essentially a cheap labor subsidy to business resulting in stagnant wages or outright job losses for American workers. The foreign …
The Department of Labor released the unemployment report for the month of August, finding that the economy continues to improve, albeit very slowly. While the 8.4 percent unemployment rate is significantly lower than the 14.7 percent at the height of t…
On June 22, President Trump issued an executive action temporarily suspending the H-1B program, and several other nonimmigrant guest worker programs, such as H-2B, J, and L, in addition to foreign citizens accompanying or follo…
Defying predictions, funds sent by U.S.-based immigrants to Mexico set records as COVID-19 began scourging the Americas. Remittances soared to the highest and second highest levels on record in March and May. April wasn’t too shabby either. Even as U.S…
Chairman of the House’s Homeland Security Committee Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) released a statement attacking the Trump administration’s expanded executive order barring incoming guestworkers in the H-1B, H-2B, J-1, and L-1 programs from coming to the U…
The nearly 4 million college students who receive their diplomas next month will head directly into the worst job market since the 2008-2009 recession. Things are no brighter for graduates with job prospects since more than 20 percent of companies are …