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Indian-born Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal says the U.S. economy needs millions of wage-cutting visa workers for lower-skill jobs.

As attorney general, Jeff Sessions had numerous triumphs and promises kept for President Trump’s “America First” agenda.

GOP leaders have withdrawn $1.2 million in promised campaign funding for Kansas Rep. Kevin Yoder, who is facing a tough reelection race after endorsing a series of job-outsourcing programs in an August vote, according to TheHill.com.

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. 

Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ Department of Justice (DOJ) has fined a housekeeping company after revealing that they gamed the H-2B visa program to import foreign workers instead of hiring qualified Americans.  

The Republicans in Congress have yet to secure funding for President Trump’s most central infrastructure project: A border wall on the United States-Mexico border. 

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.

Officials at the Department of Homeland Security have tightened an obscure regulation in the H-1B visa-worker program, likely curbing companies’ ability to outsource more white-collar jobs to cheap foreign college-graduates.

The legislator responsible for keeping the GOP’s House majority in November says companies should be allowed to hire an unlimited number of foreign university-graduates in place of Americans.

Employers are raising wages for Americans in the crab-meat business because of President Donald Trump’s opposition to the H-2B blue-collar outsourcing program, the Washington Post admits.

AG Jeff Sessions’ Department of Justice is expanding its initiative to crack down on businesses hiring foreign workers over Americans. 

Kris Kobach says an effort pushed by House Democrats and Republicans to widen asylum laws would be an “open door” for terrorists.

Ann Coulter says President Trump’s “poll numbers will go through the roof” if he’d build the border wall he promised to construct.

Pro-mass immigration GOP mega-donor billionaire Koch brothers are threatening to support Democrats who promote open borders and free trade.

President Trump says he will “shut down” the federal government if the Republicans and Democrats in Congress do not deliver border wall funding and an end to the Catch and Release loophole system in their latest funding bill.

Rep. Kevin Yoder is tap dancing away from his decisive support for a Democratic amendment which restores President Barack Obama’s catch-and-release border policies. 

The GOP-run House appropriations committee has voted to expand the H-2A visa-worker program so more farmers can import more year-round workers instead of seasonal workers.

The GOP-run House appropriations committee is helping business owners and hurting blue-collar Americans by tripling the resident population of H-2B workers to almost 200,000.

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. 

Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ Department of Justice (DOJ) is hitting a North Carolina landscaping business with a major civil penalty for hiring foreign workers instead of American citizens.

A bipartisan group of Senators is slamming Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen for recently allowing U.S. businesses to import an additional 15,000 low-skilled foreign workers to the country.

Rep. Dan Donovan (R-NY), who is being challenged by Michael Grimm in New York’s 11th Congressional District, received President Trump’s endorsement on Wednesday despite his record of supporting mass immigration.

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen will allow U.S. companies to import an additional 15,000 low-skilled foreign workers to compete with working-class Americans through the H-2B visa program.

President Trump’s tightened labor market is giving Maryland’s seafood industry reason to complain, mainly because they want to import more foreign workers to do U.S. blue-collar jobs.

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.

“For the farmers, OK, it’s going to get good, and we’re going to let your guest workers come in, because we’re going to have strong borders, but we have to have your workers come in.”

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.

House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) has announced that he will retire from Congress at the end of his term, leaving the door open for an economic nationalist Republican to take over as Speaker.

House Speaker Paul Ryan’s omnibus spending bill is a “betrayal” of American workers and the “antithesis of American interests,” pro-American immigration reformers say.

President Trump’s Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney says House Speaker Paul Ryan’s omnibus spending bill that does not include any money for a border wall is a “really, really good immigration package.”

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.

Democratic and GOP legislators in the House and Senate are trying to import additional cheap H-2B seasonal workers, just as voters’ wages are poised to grow before November, according to industry advocates.

Haitian nationals will no longer be allowed to enter the United States on low-skilled foreign guest worker visas, a new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) memo reveals.

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.

The federal H-2B guest-worker program has hollowed out small towns in Montana, Idaho, Oregon and other states by sidelining the many young Americans who want to work in the forests and timber industry, says a detailed report in High Country News.

Businesses across the country are using the H-2B visa in order to import a foreign workforce that is much cheaper to employ than hiring American workers, new wage data reveals.