Mark Zuckerberg’s pals and pro-immigration lobbyists say amnesty for millions of illegal aliens will raise workers’ pay while creating 400,000 additional U.S. jobs. It’s pure political bunk masquerading as objective research. Pushing the implausi…
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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce – one of the country’s largest and oldest business lobbying groups – has begun an all-out push to increase legal immigration and amnesty illegal aliens. The Chamber has already spent $17.6 million on lobbying alone in 2021,…
Last week, FAIR’s government relations team submitted its fifth public comment of the year, urging the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) to raise the wages employers are required to pay foreign workers and implement American worker-protection rules that w…
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…
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is again sending National Guard troops to patrol the state’s southern border. But their presence is of limited value as long as the Biden administration persists with its sieve-like catch and release program. While states have no…
The open borders advocacy group, FWD.us, published a report on December 16 which estimates that 69 percent of illegal aliens present in the United States hold essential jobs during the COVID pandemic. This conclusion is largely inaccurate and takes man…
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka delighted in the election of former Vice President Joe Biden, saying he was confident he would be “the most pro-union president” ever. If Biden is able to implement half of the plan to rebuild unions that he released du…
Employing the legislative legerdemain of “unanimous consent” to dispense with floor hearings or debate, the U.S. Senate quickly passed an amended version of the “Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act” last week. The action, conducted in a virtually …
The Trump administration’s Department of Labor (DOL) has implemented new prevailing wage rules that both political parties should get behind – but probably won’t. Taking aim at a system that has crassly commodified H-1B visa workers while displacing qu…
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…