At least 10 Republican members of Congress are pushing a plan to grant 100,000 extra work-permits to foreign college grads, despite the reality of high debts and stalled salaries for American graduates.
President Donald Trump’s federal agencies will allow companies to bring in an additional 15,000 foreign “guest workers” for use in landscaping, forestry, resorts, and seafood processing, say Maryland seafood executives.
President Donald Trump’s deputies are debating whether to protect U.S. research by limiting the hiring of Chinese technology graduates, according to leaked reports provided to the New York Times.
Homeland secretary Kirstjen Nielsen told House legislators that the H-2B visa-worker program puts corporate priorities ahead of employees, and also suggested she will soon provide extra visas for companies to hire foreign workers.
The GOP’s business-first leadership has expanded the H-2B visa-worker program, so reducing marketplace pressure on companies to offer higher wages to Americans just months before the November election.
The administration’s decision to reverse President Barack Obama’s expansion of the H-1B program has been met with criticism by advocates for cheap foreign white-collar labor.
Elite support for legal mass immigration is allowing and concealing large-scale illegal discrimination by U.S. employers against American blue-collar workers, says a new report.
Officials at the Department of Homeland have drafted plans to end former President Barack Obama’s policy of awarding an extra work-visa to many H-1B guest workers.
Texas Rep. Mike McCaul is reportedly a candidate to take over the Department of Homeland Security, despite his long pro-business record and his long-standing support of delegating anti-terror tasks to Islamic political groups.
The latest 1,305-page draft House appropriations bill for 2018 uses a bureaucratic trick on page 732 to help employers cut wages for foreign H-2B seasonal workers — and indirectly, to cut wages for American workers.
President Donald Trump’s merit immigration reform will raise Americans’ salaries and put roughly additional 2.3 million sidelined Americans back to work, admits a business-funded university group.
President Donald Trump’s populist “Hire American’ policy is forcing employers to hire more Americans at higher wages, says a new report by the Wall Street Journal.
Agriculture companies in California are being forced to develop and deploy labor-saving machinery and techniques because reduced illegal immigration is allowing American farmworkers raise their poverty-level wages, according to Los Angeles Times.
A Washington Post survey of established economists shows growing support for President Donald Trump’s plan to reform immigration for greater productivity and higher wages.
Homeland defense secretary James Kelly will approve today a plan to print thousands of additional H-2B visas for foreign blue-collar workers, according to D.C. sources.
Homeland Secretary John Kelly has not made a decision to expand the H-2B cheap-labor program, and his deputies have not even met with counterparts at the Department of Labor to begin the expansion process, says an agency spokesman.
Four Senators are pressuring homeland security chief John Kelly to reject U.S. companies’ pending pleas for visas to import up to 70,000 extra foreign workers this summer.
President Donald Trump’s White House has released the text of his new “hire American” Executive Order, which orders a multi-agency reform of the nation’s many guest-worker programs to help raise Americans’ wages and salaries.
Four federal agencies will put many U.S. visa worker programs, including the white-collar H-1B program, through a “full legal analysis,” a White House official told reporters Monday night.