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 …
H-1b visas
After months of being quashed by the coronavirus pandemic, “high-skilled” temporary work visas are creeping up again. From a low of 500 in April, issuance of H-1B and related visas climbed back to 2,200 in July (the latest month for which figures were …
Over 47 years in political office, Joe Biden has stood on multiple sides of key immigration issues. He once believed that hiring an illegal alien nanny was “a big deal,” promised not to let sanctuary cities “ignore” immigration laws, and said a border …
In the summer of 2012, President Barack Obama infuriated small business owners by declaring during a campaign rally that “if you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that.” His full comments reflected the broader theme of his stump speech that the gover…
If the claim sounds illogical, that’s because it is. In one of their most desperate attempts yet to promote mass immigration during a time of unprecedented employment, some in the open borders lobby are now claiming that temporary foreign workers are a…
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 wailing and gnashing of teeth in the tech sector is a strong indication that the Trump administration’s suspension of H-1B visas hit home. Jessica Herrera-Flanigan, Twitter’s head of “public policy and philanthropy for the Americas,” spoke for many…
The killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer has led to discussions that extend beyond police reform, such as providing access to better schools, housing and economic opportunities. Yet, few voices are willing to talk about the impact im…
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump pledged: “I will end the use of the H-1B [foreign workers]as a cheap labor program forever, and institute an absolute requirement to hire American workers first for every visa and immigration program….
As the coronavirus epidemic began to emerge in America, U.S. law enforcement officials say a Pakistani doctor here on an H-1B work visa was incubating seeds of terror. Muhammad Masood, a research coordinator at the prestigious Mayo Clinic in Rochester,…