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…
Guest Worker program
President of Mexico Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador – commonly referred to by his initials, AMLO – suggested creating a new guestworker program that would allow migrant workers from Mexico and other Central American countries to work in the United States t…
President Trump’s Proclamation 10052 (Suspending Entry of Aliens Who Present a Risk to the U.S. Labor Market Following the Coronavirus Outbreak) was issued on June 22 at FAIR’s urging, but is set to expire on December 31. You heard that right – it ends…
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 …
12 Nov: Brookings Institution Report Misleadingly Suggests GuestWorker EO Cost Corporations Billions
The Brookings Institution recently released a report titled “An Executive Order Worth $100 Billion; The Impact of an Immigration Ban’s Announcement on Fortune 500 firms Valuation,” in which they attempted to paint President Trump’s guest worker pause a…
27 Apr: As COVID-19 Exposes the Defects of Globalism, America Must Rediscover National Self-Reliance
The global COVID-19 pandemic – which originated in the Wuhan region of China, and which initially spread in large part because of the Beijing communist regime’s cover-up – has hit the American and other Western economies particularly hard. As a result …
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to spur change across the federal government’s leviathan bureaucracy. On April 15, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced a new, “temporary” rule change to the H-2A a…