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Democratic leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi is hitting President Donald Trump in a soft spot — the slow growth of Americans’ wages in a go-go economy. 

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. 

One-third of small businesses are raising wages in the tight economy, setting a record level of pay increases, says a new report by the National Federation of Independent Business. 

Almost half of hourly-wage employers will “offer the maximum hourly wage they feel their business can afford” this summer, up from just one-third of employers in 2017, says a survey of 1,000 employers by Snag, a job-advertising firm.

Congress’ border loopholes for asylum seekers have delivered more than 400,000 migrants into Americans’ workplaces, reducing free-market pressure on employers and investors to raise wages for blue-collar Americans.

The Democrats’ open-border policy is helping the Mexican cartels’ labor-smuggling operations, destabilizing Central American countries, and are hurting legitimate asylum-seekers, top White House advisor Steven Miller told reporters today.

Pro-amnesty Senators in both parties are trying again to deliver an amnesty to at least two million ‘DACA’ illegals — and also to several hundred thousand people with expiring “Temporary Protected Status.”

Pro-migration CEOs and investors are splitting from the GOP’s base of 2016 voters, just months after the base provided them with the congressional votes for a huge tax cut. 

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is skillfully and successfully implementing President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, says the far-left, pro-migration Vox website. 

Two more GOP legislators signed the amnesty discharge-petition on Thursday, while GOP legislators promised to develop a compromise immigration package by June 7.

President Donald Trump shoved cheap-labor immigration back into the November election by suggesting he would veto any amnesty which emerges from the discharge petition process, and also by urging Congress to pass his four-part immigration compromise.

GOP leaders used a backroom maneuver to block a fast-track amnesty for hundreds of young illegals who join the military.

A GOP business donor from the high-immigration, Democrat-dominated state of Illinois is threatening to defund GOP legislators who do not support an amnesty which will deliver many more future Democratic voters into their districts.

The House’s GOP leadership will likely schedule an amnesty vote on June 25 if the discharge petition gets at least 25 GOP signatures, says Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, a former chairman of the Freedom Caucus. Jordan’s Tuesday prediction comes as House Speaker Paul

Rep. Bob Goodlatte is reportedly tweaking his comprehensive immigration reform bill in a way that makes it more attractive to the several dairy-district GOP legislators who have signed the discharge petition.

President Donald Trump’s low-immigration policy is spiking wages for restaurant workers in South Carolina’s Hilton Head resort before the November election, according to the Washington Post.

Retiring House Speaker Paul Ryan is losing clout and gaining new critics as his January retirement comes closer, says Politico.

President Donald Trump is expected to raise his demands for border-wall funding this fall, up from $1.6 billion for 2018 to $2.5 billion for 2019.

A Gallup poll shows a record 67 percent of Americans believe it is good time to find good jobs, upping marketplace pressure on employers to raise wages in the run-up to the November election.

GOP leaders are trying to get a DACA amnesty through the House, and are trying to negotiate a “third alternative” bill with President Donald Trump, House Whip Steve Scalise told a Fox TV interviewer on Sunday.

Sixty-eight percent of adults — and of swing-voting independents — give credit to President Donald Trump’s policies for the good economy, according to a new CBS poll.  

A Super PAC which works hand-in-glove with House Speaker Paul Ryan is backing 11 of the 19 GOP legislators who have signed the discharge petition for a divisive, risky and unpopular amnesty bill before the midterms. 

“The animating goal of progressive politics is unvarnished race and gender warfare,” says Andrew Sullivan, who is a prominent center-left intellectual with a column in New York magazine. Sullivan must make his living by his wit and pen, and has a

Donor pressure for more cheap-labor immigration is splitting the House GOP’s leadership team of House Speaker Paul Ryan and Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, according to an article in Politico. 

A “thriving economy” does not include salary or wages increases for Americans or their adult children, according to House Speaker Paul Ryan’s enthusiastic description on May 17.

A Super PAC funded by retiring House Speaker Paul Ryan is spending more than $10 million to help the GOP representatives who are trying to pass a cheap-labor amnesty via the discharge-petition process.

House Speaker Paul Ryan described President Donald Trump four-part immigration reform as “extremely reasonable,” marking a rhetorical shift as he tries to keep his party’s cheap-labor caucus from alienating GOP voters before the November chances. 

House Speaker Paul Ryan has many tools to prevent a discharge petition from reaching the House floor — and even to prevent a clear majority of legislators from passing the planned amnesty. 

House Speaker Paul Ryan offered President Donald Trump a plan that would let House legislators vote for an amnesty — and then vote against a bill containing Trump’s big three immigration reforms, sources tell Breitbart News.

GOP Whip Rep. Steve Scalise is opposing the pro-amnesty discharge petition which is being pushed by almost 20 business-first Republicans.

The GOP legislator who is pushing the “discharge petition” is telling lobbyists that he will have enough GOP signatures to force an amnesty vote in the House once this week’s primaries are finished, sources tell Breitbart News.

Many establishment Republicans are trying to beat populist GOP rivals by mimicking President Donald Trump’s pro-American immigration arguments, says a top editor at the Atlantic magazine. 

Officials at the Department of Health and Human Services are visiting four military bases to see if they can be used to house young migrants while their parents’ deportation and asylum cases are processed, according to The Hill. 

President Donald Trump will meet with GOP leaders this afternoon to talk about immigration, amid growing pressure from business leaders to approve a big amnesty that will block wage increases for his own 2018 voters.

Federal officials are closing a little-known loophole in immigration law which allows millions of foreigners to dodge penalties for overstaying their student, business or work visas. 

President Donald Trump’s deputies have doubled workplace enforcement actions against companies which hire illegal migrants instead of Americans.