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The left-wing host of the “Young Turks” Internet-TV show praised Breitbart News for “consistent” coverage of the visa workers programs which allow companies to hire foreign workers for U.S.-based jobs.

House Speaker Paul Ryan is facing Democratic criticism for his planned visa-giveaway to Irish college-graduates, and the Irish government is reportedly trying to overcome the opposition by promising to deliver reciprocal benefits for American graduates.

GOP politicians are working with Irish politicians and advocacy groups to pass a bill that would transfer thousands of white collar jobs from U.S. graduates to Irish graduates.

The U.S. ambassador to China has temporarily blocked a proposal by White House aide Stephen Miller to “make it impossible” for Chinese citizens to study in the United States, according to the Financial Times.

The owner of a catering and wedding business in New York is facing 20 years in jail for allegedly treating H-2B visa workers from the Philippines as underpaid servants. 

Former President Barack Obama on Friday warned his fellow Democrats that their hatred of President Donald Trump and their fellow Americans could drive their 2018 campaign into a ditch. 

Kansas GOP Rep. Kevin Yoder is doubling down on his plan to help business groups import hundreds of thousands of cheap foreign workers to take many jobs which would otherwise be worked by Americans at middle-class wages.

Federal data shows that legal immigrants are filling a growing share of several upper-middle class professions which have seen little salary growth since 2000.

The government should allow farm companies to import an army of minimum-wage foreign workers to pick and process the fruits preferred by upper-income consumers, according to an op-ed in the Washington Post. 

Brand-name American companies are lobbying the government to import more visa-workers for a wide variety of good white-collar jobs, even though the companies’ investors are earning record profits and their American graduates’ salaries are flat.

Iowa Public Television provided viewers a 2012 look inside Yarrabee Farms, the Iowa dairy farm which employed Mollie Tibbetts’ suspected killer. 

American college-graduates are urging the House Committee on Rules to block GOP Rep. Kevin Yoder’s “country caps” appropriations legislation, saying it will widen discrimination against Americans and expand the outsourcing of U.S. college-grad jobs to Indian visa-workers.

CEOs are pressing President Donald Trump to dramatically raise the inflow of foreign graduates, but any corporate giveaway would freeze growing hope for a middle-class salary boost before the 2018 or 2020 elections. 

The Department of Homeland Security is drafting recommendations for Congress to reform the H-2B cheap-labor program, according to a July 6 letter to Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, the chairman of the Senate’s judiciary committee. 

Salaries for American college-graduates are barely keeping pace with inflation, but the editor of an influential progressive website says the government should print an unlimited number of visas for foreign college-graduates so they can compete for white-collar jobs in the United States.

House Speaker Paul Ryan has added a huge cheap-labor visa-worker program to his stalled amnesty bill in the hope of getting support from agriculture-district GOP legislators before the scheduled Wednesday vote.

The GOP chairman of the House judiciary committee is trying to boost his immigration-reform and DACA-amnesty bill by including a separate bill to accelerate the immigration of Indian and Chinese tech-workers.

President Donald Trump’s “Hire American” policy forced companies to raise wages and recruit sidelined Americans for lower-skilled jobs during the summer season, says an article in Politico.

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham is urging South Carolinians to vote against him when they disagree with his support for a national amnesty plus a greater inflow of foreign workers to take Americans’ jobs.

GOP leaders and the agriculture industry are stepping up the pressure for more wage-cutting visa-workers following this week’s agreement by homeland security chief John Kelly to approve an additional 15,000 H-2B foreign workers.

North Carolina GOP Sen. Thom Tillis is demanding the Department of Homeland Security approve a larger supply of wage-cutting foreign H-2B contract workers before he allows Senate approval of a top homeland security official.