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WashPost: Trump’s Economy Boosts Blue-Collar Jobs

President Donald Trump has shifted the economy so that once-disregarded blue-collar manufacturing workers are now recovering jobs faster than coastal service-sector employees, the Washington Post acknowledged Sunday.

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Steve King Taunts Left Over ‘Enforcement Is Racist’ Claim

Immigration-reform leader Rep. Steve King cheered the likely deportation of two illegal migrants from Europe and taunted critics who claim that immigration enforcement is a racist policy. “Finally we have found illegal aliens whom I can call for the deportation of without the

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DHS Tightens Curbs on H-1B Program

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.

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Congress Floods White-Collar Labor Markets

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.

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WashPost: Farm Wages Are Just Too High

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. 

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DHS Ending Giant ‘Administrative Closure’ Amnesty

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is reversing the closed-door “administrative closure” amnesty for 350,000 migrants which was quietly created by officials working for former President Barack Obama.

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Tibbetts Suspect Worked at Local Dairy Farm

Mollie Tibbetts’ suspected killer was verified as a legal worker, even though he is an illegal immigrant, says his employer, who is the owner of a dairy farm in Brooklyn, Iowa.

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DHS Drafting Plan to Exclude Migrants Who Need Welfare

Immigration officials are carefully developing a regulation to implement Congress’ long-standing law against the admission of unskilled migrants who cannot afford to live in the United States, a top administration official said August 15.

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