The State Department’s temporary suspension of visa processing has stopped the inflow of H-1B foreign visa workers into American white-collar jobs while the Chinese coronavirus crisis drives up United States jobless claims to more than 10 million.
President Donald Trump persuaded India’s prime minister to release many millions of hydroxychloroquine pills after the Indian government announced it would keep all of the pills for its own population of almost 1.5 billion people.
Corporate immigration lawyers are asking a federal judge to take control of the immigration system from President Donald Trump and then suspend routine visa deadlines for at least two million foreign workers until after the coronavirus epidemic has passed.
The India-based NASSCOM business lobby is asking the Department of Labor to help the lobby keep its huge workforce of Indian H-1B temporary workers in American jobs throughout the coronavirus crash, according to a report in the Times of India newspaper.
One power Trump should implement is to seal our nation’s borders from new arrivals until employment is back to pre-virus levels.
U.S. and foreign companies have asked for H-1B visas to import 275,000 foreign graduates for white-collar jobs, according to an April 1 statement from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency.
Indian H-1B workers are lobbying the White House for rules to help them stay in the United States until the economy recovers from the coronavirus crash.
President Donald Trump’s deputies announced Friday that they had begun the process of importing 85,000 H-1B gig workers to take white-collar jobs that will be needed after October by the millions of American graduates who are now losing jobs in the coronavirus crash.
The immigration lawyers who import visa workers for U.S. companies are urging President Donald Trump’s deputies to extend the expiring work permits for hundreds of thousands of foreign contract workers during the nation’s unprecedented economic meltdown.
India’s outsourcing companies are pushing their Fortune 500 clients to relax non-disclosure and other privacy rules as the Indian government shuts down workplaces to curb the spread of China’s Wuhan virus.
The House Democrats’ 1,400-page coronavirus recovery bill threatens the livelihood of millions of American graduates and their families by expanding work visas for many of the roughly 1.5 million foreign college graduate contract workers who hold jobs in the United States.
Many American graduates will lose their jobs in the coronavirus meltdown unless they pressure C-suite executives to shrink the million-plus H-1B visa workers on the payrolls, say lawyers, political activists, and Americans who have lost jobs in prior mass layoffs.
The House Democrats coronavirus recovery bill allows several hundred thousand foreign workers to compete for college jobs and blue-collar jobs while millions of Americans lose their careers.
The House coronavirus spending bill allows roughly 500,000 foreign college graduate visa-workers from China, India, and elsewhere to stay in their jobs, regardless of Americans’ job losses, according to a lobby group for H-1B workers.
President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security quietly adopted a second tactic to speed the inflow of foreign H-1B workers into U.S. jobs — even though hundreds of thousands of American graduates are expected to lose their jobs in the next few weeks.
A proposed expansion of the EB-5 green-card program should not be included in the coronavirus recovery bill, Sen. Lindsey Graham told Fox News Thursday evening.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is trying to accelerate the delivery of H-1B foreign workers to U.S. and Indian companies — despite the crashing economy and abundant evidence that many American graduates are facing discrimination and exclusion from software jobs.
Sen. Lindsey Graham is using the coronavirus recovery bills to dramatically expand the award of EB-5 green cards to wealthy Chinese if they lend money to U.S. real estate investors and other companies, according to several activists and Politico magazine.
Chinese media outlets import numerous journalists into the United States via the H-1B program, usually at very low salaries.
The U.S. association of pork suppliers is asking for more foreign visa workers despite the huge loss of American jobs amid the coronavirus epidemic.
A single traveler from China infected 39 people in Washington state with the coronavirus, according to virus expert Trevor Bedford.
Immigration advocates are worrying out loud that China’s Wuhan epidemic will reduce public support for migration into the United States.
Former Vice President Joe Biden (D) claimed during the CNN Democrat debate that it is merely a “Republican canard” to say that foreign workers take jobs in the United States from Americans.
Congress should fight the Chinese coronavirus epidemic by importing an unlimited inflow of Chinese and other foreign scientists, doctors, nurses, and blue-collar healthcare workers into the United States, says an op-ed by an advocate at the Cato Institute.
Ireland’s ethnic lobbies in Congress are trying to sneak a bill that would allow the Department of State to trade away several thousand upscale jobs per year that are needed by U.S. college graduates.
A judge has gutted the Trump administration’s minimal curbs on the many Indian-run companies that import Indian college graduates to take the jobs needed by young U.S. graduates.
President Donald Trump’s deputies at the Department of State are nudging down the level of legal immigration, according to a pro-migration advocacy group.
A group of Americans will present evidence in June to a second jury that their employer deliberately discriminated against them by hiring Indian H-1B workers — even though the Indians cost more money.
Fox News’s townhall session with President Donald Trump on March 5 averted any questions about raising wages or curbing the legal inflow of foreign workers.
President Donald Trump and a group of GOP senators quickly rejected a DACA amnesty deal pushed by Sen. Lindsey Graham on Thursday afternoon – but left the door open to future negotiations.
Sen. Lindsey Graham is meeting with President Donald Trump to talk about amnesty for DACA migrants if the Supreme Court cancels Barack Obama’s unilateral award of work permits to roughly 800,000 young foreign migrants, says a report in Politico.
U.S. tech companies want to hire more skilled professionals, so the government should give green cards to foreigners who graduate from U.S. universities, says a report released Tuesday by FWD.us, an advocacy group for Mark Zuckerberg and other wealthy West Coast investors.
The majority of Super Tuesday states, where 2020 Democrats presidential primary candidates are vying for delegates, have had their electorates rapidly changed by mass immigration to the United States over a relatively short period of time.
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) may use the Senate’s Unanimous Consent rule this week to pass his redrafted S.386 “country caps” bill, which rewards Indian graduates who take jobs from U.S. graduates, say a variety of lobbyists and advocates.
President Trump can shore up jobs for American professionals and graduates by ending the H-4 visa program and the Optional Practical Training (OPT) that gives away thousands of U.S. jobs to foreign nationals every year.
The supply of extra workers doesn’t have much effect on wages, so the government should import the foreign workers demanded by investors, says a February 27 New York Times article, titled “Why a Top Trump Aide Said ‘We Are Desperate’ for More Immigrants.”
Mike Bloomberg is proposing to flood the labor market for U.S. graduates by offering green cards and then citizenship to an almost unlimited number of foreigners who graduate from U.S. colleges.
President Donald Trump’s ‘tight labor’ policies are boosting wages, but he should loosen immigration policies to supply business with more imported workers, says the Washington Post’s editorial board.
The population of illegal migrants from India has jumped to 619,000, up almost 70 percent from 2010 to 2018, according to a report in the New York Times.
Chad Wolf, the acting chief of the Homeland Security Agency, said Tuesday he is talking with the Secretary of Labor to decide how many extra H-2B visa workers they will provide to employers in 2020.
