Republican lawmakers are asking the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to calculate how much the House Democrats’ HEROES Act—a special interest wish list hiding in an economic stimulus bill that also provides illegal aliens with jobs, stimulus checks, a…
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Amid growing concerns about espionage, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is moving to place time limits on foreign student and exchange visas. For the first time, F-1 student visas (more than 1 million issued in 2019) and J-1 exchange visi…
More than 3,000 economic migrants started out from Honduras last week hoping to reach the U.S. border where they planned to ask for political asylum. Unlike earlier caravans, where many of the migrants made it to the U.S. border, this latest attempt at…
Despite the ongoing criticism of U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE), agents continue their efforts to keep the public safe from negligent sanctuary policies. Last week was no exception when ICE conducted a series of fugitive apprehension op…
On October 1, 3,000 Honduran migrants forced their way past police and soldiers as they crossed into Guatemala on their way to the U.S. southern border, but they didn’t make it far. Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei ordered the migrants to be d…
Ranking behind Sierra Leone and just ahead of Burkina Faso, the United States placed sixth on Gallup’s latest “Migrant Acceptance Index.” The index is based on a three-part query: Are migrants living in your country, becoming your neighbors and marryin…
The Department of Agriculture (USDA) published a notice in the Federal Register that they will refuse to collect the wage data necessary to establish wage rates for H-2A agricultural guestworkers. This will have the effect of lowering wages for workers…
Although Reihan Salam’s book, Melting Pot or Civil War? A Son of Immigrants Makes the Case Against Open Borders, was published in 2018, the author’s analysis of immigration policy remains relevant. FAIR supporters will likely agree with many of Salam’s…
In a recent survey of Latino students, more than half said they suffered from anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or depression. Why? La migra! Broadly asserting that “immigration enforcement has generated fear in immigrant communities acros…
An article headline in the tech industry magazine Dice Insights sounds like great news for unemployed or underemployed Americans – a Department of Labor (DOL) “workforce grant program could eliminate H-1B workers.” Described by the writer as “designed …