Georgia’s Republican Primaries Split over Immigration
Immigration politics are shaping primary races for two state Senate seats in Georgia, allowing local voters to impose their priorities on their politicians until the polls close on June 9.

Immigration politics are shaping primary races for two state Senate seats in Georgia, allowing local voters to impose their priorities on their politicians until the polls close on June 9.
Twenty-one GOP legislators asked President Donald Trump to preserve a program that rewards Fortune 500 companies that hire foreign graduates instead of American graduates from their own heartland GOP districts.
A business-funded poll backfired by showing that 56 percent of swing voters favor President Donald Trump’s decision to curb legal immigration for 60 days.
Presidnet Donald Trump can leverage his control of Silicon Valley’s preferred pipeline of cheap, compliant H-1B visa workers to curb censorship on social media, say experts on immigration policy.
The swing voters who will decide the 2020 election oppose by 2:1 the inflow and hiring of foreign workers amid the coronavirus crash, according to a May 20-21 poll of 1,250 likely voters by Rasmussen Reports.
Even brief and temporary curbs on the use of imported contract workers may cause discrimination against “our personnel based on country of birth,” according to a letter sent by Fortune 500 lobbyists to President Donald Trump.
President Donald Trump is expected to shrink a huge work-permit program that quietly allows companies to hire foreign employees for the jobs needed by U.S. graduates in the coronavirus crash, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The Optional Practical Training (OPT) program foreign employee program is shifting many billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of jobs from heartland communities over to wealthy Democrat-dominated coastal states, according to data touted by advocates of the program.
A group of university associations is asking a former Microsoft executive in the White House to help preserve a very lucrative student-to-worker program that was created at the request of Microsoft.
The flow of legal migrants into the blue-collar and white-collar jobs sought by Americans has no significant impact on Americans, according to a report by a business-boosted pro-migration group, the National Foundation for American Policy.
The administration is preserving the nation’s border and border agents by using a healthcare law to help deport 80 percent of migrants within two hours of arriving at the southern border, officials say.
President Donald Trump should open the southern borders to migrants who are seeking asylum, regardless of coronavirus dangers, say a group of elite “public health” specialists.
Business and progressive groups are touting skewed polls that exaggerate the public’s conditional support for migration, as President Donald Trump and his staff debate draft curbs on the inflow of immigrants and visa workers.
President Donald Trump is extending border rules barring the entry of people who might be carrying China’s coronavirus disease, according to the New York Times.
The unemployment rate among legal immigrants and illegal aliens has spiked above the unemployment rate suffered by American citizens, undercutting claims that business needs migrant workers, says a report by the Center for Immigration Studies.
Fortune 500 companies are rushing to extend work permits for thousands of H-1B visa workers as President Donald Trump and his deputies argue over visa curbs that would help Americans regain jobs lost in the coronavirus crash.
The House Democrats’ next coronavirus bill will help centralize the nation’s healthcare system by giving hospital chains more power to import many more doctors from overseas, say critics.
The federal government will not provide companies with extra H-2B visa workers this year, homeland security chief Chad Wolf told Breitbart News.
Amnesty advocates are working overtime to portray illegal migrants as heroic essential workers in the national campaign to contain China’s coronavirus.
President Donald Trump will curb companies’ hiring of foreign visa workers during the next few weeks, according to a report in the pro-migration Wall Street Journal.
President Donald Trump has asked contractors to provide price estimates for painting the border wall with sun-absorbing black paint, according to the Washington Post.
The United States will need even more immigrants once the economy has recovered from the coronavirus crash, according to the editorial board of Mike Bloomberg’s news site.
President Donald Trump’s Department of Labor cheats many millions of American graduates by allowing employers to import foreign contract workers at below-market wages, says a May 4 report by the Economic Policy Institute.
Democrats will demand work permits for hundreds of thousands of non-immigrant foreign workers in the next coronavirus rescue bill, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said on Tuesday.
Advocates for greater immigration have to quit their plans to further expand immigration and focus on defending their gains from the last 30 years, says Noah Smith, a globalist advocate at Bloomberg News.
Progressives and employers encouraged many low-skilled foreigners to migrate illegally into U.S. cities, and now those migrants are being hit hard by China’s coronavirus because their low wages force them to live in dense, close-packed communities.
Fifty-seven percent of 1,000 likely voters approve of President Donald Trump’s temporary halt to some forms of immigration, says a Rasmussen poll conducted April 22-23.
President Donald Trump’s unprecedented April 22 shift of immigration policy to help Americans will also slow chain migration into the United States, according to a recording of a White House briefing that was leaked to the Washington Post.
Immigration does not cut Americans’ wages, says a New York Times article written by three reporters.
The Supreme Court voted 5:4 against immigration lawyers who argued their legal immigrant client should not be deported after a conviction on drug charges.
Advocates for American workers and employees are applauding President Donald Trump’s April 20 promise to suspend the legal inflow of foreign workers into the U.S. labor market.
The U.S. government should stop the inflow of foreign visa-workers for the rest of 2020, says an April 17 petition on the White House’s website.
Roughly 450,000 foreign-born illegal immigrants are getting college degrees, so they need taxpayer funding and work opportunities, according to an alliance of advocates for Mike Bloomberg and for hundreds of colleges and universities.
Immigrants are “mourning” the loss of low-wage jobs in a Chinese-owned, crowded slaughterhouse run by Smithfield Foods in Sioux Falls, SD, according to an article in the New York Times.
California’s Democrat governor is providing a $500 per person bailout to 150,000 poor illegal migrants throughout the state, according to the Associated Press.
The coronavirus epidemic may block many foreign graduates from getting the college-level jobs needed by U.S. graduates this year, according to an article in QZ.com.
China’s Wuhan virus is spreading rapidly through the nation’s close-packed, labor-intensive, low-wage meatpacking sheds.
Politicians can win massive support from millions of U.S. graduates by just curbing the inflow of foreign visa workers into the good jobs that graduates need to pay their college debts, says Charlie Kirk, the influential founder of Turning Point USA.
India’s president is linking the delivery of U.S.-purchased hydroxychloroquine medicine to his demand that President Donald Trump help India’s outsourcing workers stay past the expiration of their work visas, says a report in one of India’s leading newspapers.
A federal judge quashed a lawsuit that could have allowed migrants and lawyers to prevent hearings in the immigration courts, according to a report by Oregon Public Broadcasting.