
Industry executives and university advocates have successfully duped nearly every reporter, editor and anchor nationwide about the scale and purpose of the H-1B professional outsourcing program.
by Neil Munro5 Jan 2016, 10:26 AM PST0

China has surpassed Mexico as the country sending the most immigrants to California, according to The Sacramento Bee.
by Caroline May21 Dec 2015, 12:07 PM PST0

Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) have introduced bipartisan legislation that would cut the annual number of H-1B visas by 15,000 and allocate the visas to the highest-paying employers.
by Caroline May14 Dec 2015, 3:42 PM PST0

The complex bill is a gift to donors and businesses because it allow them to reduce wages, thus justifying their demand for cheaper H-2B visa workers. It also provides a huge loophole that technically keeps the current annual cap of 66,000 H-2B workers — but excludes from the cap any H-2B workers who got a H-2B visa in the prior three years. That clever loophole would allow employers to simultaneously hire up to four years of H-2B workers, or 264,000 foreign workers in place of 264,000 Americans.
by Neil Munro5 Dec 2015, 6:55 AM PST0

President Barack Obama is quietly opening another immigration door just for foreign professionals —and tens of thousands are rationally rushing in to snag U.S. white-collar jobs and the chance to win the greatest prize on the planet, U.S. citizenship.
by Neil Munro18 Nov 2015, 8:02 AM PST0

Presidential candidate Ted Cruz drew his sharpest distinction yet with donor-class favorite Marco Rubio by releasing an in-depth immigration plan on Friday.
by Julia Hahn15 Nov 2015, 7:44 PM PST0

Two Silicon Valley companies that import foreign software engineers for Apple and other firmss were fined and banned from the controversial H-1B visa program for underpaying what are already cheap foreign tech workers.
by Chriss W. Street12 Nov 2015, 12:13 PM PST0

Technology companies across the country are replacing American employees and “transferring” their knowledge to foreign guest workers, according to Sara Blackwell, an attorney for Disney employees replaced by foreign workers, and Leo Perrero, a former Disney employee.
by Caroline May5 Nov 2015, 7:31 AM PST0

GOP 2016 candidate Gov. Mike Huckabee today denounced his own party elite as a destructive, wage-slashing, profit-grasping creature of wealthy donors.
by Neil Munro5 Nov 2015, 7:30 AM PST0

President Barack Obama’s deputies have drafted a new amnesty memo that would quickly allow employers to get work-permits for a huge number of lower-wage foreign graduates. If approved by Obama, roughly 3 million guest-workers, students and migrants — including perhaps 1.5 million college-grads — would be immediately eligible for the work-permits, at an up-front cost of only $580 per foreign hire.
by Neil Munro2 Nov 2015, 7:48 PM PST0

Marco Rubio is trying to defend his unpopular effort to expand the controversial H-1B outsourcing program by claiming that he wants to protect American professionals from being replaced by low-wage foreign professionals.
by Julia Hahn30 Oct 2015, 10:32 AM PST0

At the CNBC’s primary debate, Donald Trump walked away from two critical elements of his immigration policy by downsizing his proposed U.S.-Mexico border wall, and by disavowing his prior commitment to curb corporate use of foreign university graduates.
by Neil Munro28 Oct 2015, 9:01 PM PST0

President Barack Obama’s deputies are quietly hacking a gap through immigration regulations to import hundreds of thousands of university-trained foreign workers for jobs sought by American college grads.
by Neil Munro28 Sep 2015, 1:25 PM PST0

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPQ) announced on Tuesday that the company will cut about 10 percent of its 300,000 member workforce, but appears to be moving “forward” with expanding its use of H1-B foreign immigrant visas.
by Chriss W. Street16 Sep 2015, 4:04 AM PST0

Donald Trump is building a giant lead among the GOP’s huge group of white, working-class voters, but is lagging among the equally important bloc of college-educated men and women, according to a new analysis by National Journal.
by Neil Munro14 Sep 2015, 6:05 AM PST0

Donald Trump has doubled down on his pledge to crack down on H-1B visa abuses and aligned himself with perhaps the most popular politician in all of Iowa, Senator Chuck Grassley.
by Julia Hahn18 Aug 2015, 8:35 PM PST0

According to Sens. Durbin and Sessions, the DOL has opened investigations into Infosys and Tata — two foreign companies that have brought guest workers on H-1B visas into the United States to replace American workers.
by Caroline May11 Jun 2015, 2:51 PM PST0

An Economic Policy Institute expert is highlighting the disconnect between Disney Corporation’s high profits and the company’s subsequent replacement of its employees with less expensive foreign labor.
by Caroline May9 Jun 2015, 9:55 AM PST0

Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) is expressing concern at the Department of Homeland Security’s proposal to establish what he calls a “shadow” guest worker program known to be susceptible to fraud and abuse.
by Caroline May8 Jun 2015, 3:21 PM PST0

“The Most Magical Place On Earth” has been a dark setting for the Disney employees who were laid off and forced to train their foreign worker replacements.
by Caroline May3 Jun 2015, 1:38 PM PST0

The Department of Homeland Security is now accepting employment authorization applications for certain H-4 dependent spouses of H-1B visa holders.
by Caroline May26 May 2015, 12:08 PM PST0

The Department of Homeland Security has declined to investigate Southern California Edison on allegations that it is replacing American employees with foreign workers on H-1B visas.
by Caroline May29 Apr 2015, 1:17 PM PST0

A University of California at Davis professor says a closed-door lobbying meeting on Capitol Hill to promote high skilled immigration to the United States was “incredibly sleazy.”
by Caroline May27 Apr 2015, 8:35 AM PST0

Former Southern California Edison employees are suing the Obama administration over its H-4 visa rule that grants work permits to certain spouses of H-1B visa holders. They say the action negatively impacts the SCE workers because not only does it benefit their direct H-1B visa competitors but it also increases the labor pool with new H-4 visa holders.
by Caroline May24 Apr 2015, 2:01 PM PST0

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest, slammed Intel, the technology company, for seeking to replace the American workers the company laid off last year with cheap foreign workers via the H-1B program.
by Matthew Boyle31 Mar 2015, 11:59 AM PST0