As more than 15,000 Haitian migrants surged into Texas last month, President Joe Biden got some flimsy political cover from the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) in Washington, D.C. “On paper, the Biden administration’s border policies are pretty simila…
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The Trump administration finalized a major overhaul of the asylum system which will take effect January 11, 2021, just nine days before President-elect Joe Biden is set to take office. The U.S. asylum policies have long been open to rampant abuse and f…
On October 15, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Acting Secretary Chad Wolf announced the opening of the U.S. government’s first-ever integrated law enforcement operations center. This new center will directly target human trafficking and forc…
The mainstream media has nearly placed all blame on President Trump and his administration over reports that allege that its “zero tolerance” policy resulted in 545 migrant children not being able to reunite with their parents—a narrative that unfairly…
The Trump administration recently took decisive action to reform the controversial H-1B guestworker program at a critical time. The Department of Labor (DOL) issued a rule changing the way that the department sets wage levels for H-1B workers, who for …
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…
During a recent interview on Fox’s “Mornings with Maria,” host Maria Bartiromo spoke with Richard Trumka – the president of the largest federation of labor unions in the U.S., the AFL-CIO (American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizatio…
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 Center for Immigration Studies has reported that, in the final months of 2019, there were 340,810 asylum applications pending with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). USCIS handles asylum applications filed by people who are not curr…
Lawmakers in both the House and Senate called on President Trump to suspend nonimmigrant guest worker programs in two letters circulated today. These letters ask the president to consider the effects of allowing hundreds of thousands of guest workers t…