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Wednesday night’s vice presidential debate between Vice President Mike Pence (R) and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) is a “living encapsulation” of the United States’ “demographic transformation” spurred by mass immigration over the last six decades, NBC News reports.

Mass immigration to the United States is likely driving up support in key swing states as foreign-born voters and the U.S.-born children of immigrants increasingly account for the electorate, a Pew Research Center analysis reveals.

President Trump is up against the “four corners” of America, including Hollywood’s elite, Wall Street executives, Silicon Valley tech giants, and the National Basketball Association’s (NBA) athletes siding with China against the United States, White House trade adviser Peter Navarro says.

A Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, official appointed by Democrat Mayor Jim Kenney was charged with fraudulently obtaining American citizenship via marriage fraud and stealing $15,000 through bank embezzlement, federal prosecutors allege. 

The swing state of Arizona is continuing to see rapid demographic changes that are helping to secure election victories for Democrats, ABC News reports. 

A pair of law professors are now arguing for an amendment to the United States Constitution that would repeal the requirement for presidents to be natural born citizens of the U.S. 

A handful of House Republicans, and two House Democrats, are circulating a plan asking the State Department to widen the H-2B visa program that brings tens of thousands of low-skilled foreign workers to the United States every year. 

President Trump is considering whether to continue halting refugee resettlement into the next fiscal year or further reducing the annual inflow, a new report alleges. 

President Trump has made Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden’s decades-long record on supporting the offshoring of American jobs a key point in his campaign speeches.

A federal judge, appointed in 2014 by President Barack Obama, has forced the reopening of the Diversity Visa Lottery program in the midst of the Chinese coronavirus crisis. 

International immigration to New York City, New York, was on the decline before the Chinese coronavirus crisis, and plans implemented by Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) have helped shut the city down. 

Tens of millions of Americans remain jobless, but all want full-time jobs, mostly as a result of economic shutdowns spurred by the Chinese coronavirus crisis, new unemployment data shows. 

The number of new foreign-born voters, naturalized since 2014, exceeds the 2016 margins of victory in a number of swing states, new data reveals. 

A few months before mass joblessness hit the United States, spurred by the Chinese coronavirus crisis, a number of House and Senate Republicans lobbied the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to import more foreign workers to take blue-collar jobs.

A booming foreign-born population, spurred by six decades of record high legal immigration levels, is “expected to help Democrats” in their quest to defeat President Trump this November, Axios reports.

An IT staffing services firm, with an office in Hyderabad, India, discriminated against qualified Americans for white-collar jobs in favor of foreign workers with the Optional Training Program (OPT), the Department of Justice (DOJ) concludes.

Second-generation Hispanics in Texas are much more likely to choose President Trump over Democrat nominee Joe Biden, as well as Hispanic voters who speak mostly English, a new survey finds.

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) is the “face of America’s demographic shift” spurred by record levels of immigration to the United States over the last six decades, according to the New York Times.

State Department officials have issued new carve-outs to a number of visa programs, including for foreign au pairs, halted by President Trump’s executive order that seeks to cut down foreign competition against unemployed Americans.

A majority of undecided voters say they see immigration as a labor issue, supporting reductions to legal immigration in order to protect the United States labor market from cheap, foreign competition, a survey finds.

General Electric (GE) workers in upstate New York are asking President Trump to intervene in shutting down an outsourcing scheme that would send work overseas to Poland.

Thousands of foreign nationals living abroad have secured $1,200 stimulus checks meant for American citizens, a report details.

Advocates for American workers are praising President Trump’s executive order, signed Monday, mandating federal agencies run audits to ensure they are not outsourcing United States federal civil service jobs to imported foreign workers. 

An immigrant from Africa is accused of spitting on four police officers in Portland, Maine, after being arrested for allegedly driving a stolen vehicle.

The booming foreign-born and Hispanic populations in Arizona, through “generations of demographic change,” is helping to turn the state into a Democrat stronghold, the Washington Post reports. 

The group Doctors Without Jobs is asking Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to allow American doctors, unmatched for residencies, to fill job shortages in the United States medical industry rather than importing an additional 40,000 foreign nurses and physicians. 

President Trump’s halt of the J-1 visa program — where upper-middle-class and wealthy households are able to import cheap foreign au pairs — is driving up wages and benefits for au pairs already in the United States, a report reveals. 

A group of 15 House Republicans lobbied President Trump’s administration to reopen a loophole that gives visas to online-only foreign students just as the White House reversed policy to do just that. 

The United States Chamber of Commerce is demanding the federal government provide visas to foreign students taking online courses at American colleges and universities. 

American doctors, unmatched for residencies, are urging President Trump to prioritize them for the limited medical residency spots, rather than allowing a continued inflow of foreign doctors to fill the program. 

A proposed policy platform for the Democrat Party, drafted by supporters of presumed Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), would give asylum to the world’s migrants — inviting them all to the United States to live and work.

Migrants in the United States sent about $103 billion in mostly untaxed remittances to six foreign countries last year — including about $19 billion to China.

President Trump’s suspension of various visa programs and regulatory reforms are set to give American workers newly found leverage in the job market, a report details.

There remain more than 35.1 million Americans who are unemployed, out of the labor force, and underemployed, but all of whom want full-time jobs, showing no shortage of labor from which business can hire. 

Democrat presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden made no mention of continuing existing travel bans from China, Europe, and Brazil to the United States to prevent the spread of the Chinese coronavirus from overseas. 

Potentially hundreds of thousands of immigrants may secure United States citizenship ahead of the 2020 presidential election, adding a bloc of new, first-time foreign-born voters to the electorate.