Far-left Democratic legislators were able to champion American workers Tuesday morning because GOP leaders pushed an outsourcing bill which would allow food-industry companies to hire a million minimum-wage foreign workers.
Farm industry lobbyists and the GOP chairman of the House Judiciary Committee will try again on October 24 to pass a bill that would let companies import an army of 1 million low-wage foreign workers for a wide variety of Americans food-sector jobs.
President Barack Obama spiked the annual inflow of temporary foreign workers by 43 percent from 2012 to 2016, and his policies are still raising the numbers in President Donald Trump’s first year.
Billionaire Mike Bloomberg’s lobbying group is lobbying top Republicans to prevent President Donald Trump from including pro-American, wage-boosting immigration reforms in a much-touted amnesty for younger illegal immigrants.
Legislators canceled a scheduled Tuesday committee vote on the huge Agricultural Guestworker Act, and have not set a new date.
House Republicans are expected to approve a gigantic “H-2C” guest-worker bill on Wednesday that allows the nation’s food industry to employ one million low-wage, foreign guest-workers — regardless of how many Americans would lose their skilled or unskilled jobs in
The greatest thing on Earth is American citizenship, says Sen. James Lankford, who is offering it to at least one million “DACA” illegal immigrants if they just take education courses after high school and avoid getting jailed for more than a year.
Illegal immigrants are good for the U.S. economy, GOP Sen. James Lankford said today while he introduced a multi-stage amnesty for many young illegal immigrants, including the 690,000 illegals covered under the 2012 “DACA” amnesty.
GOP Senator and outsourcing-advocate Sen. Thom Tillis will introduce legislation on Monday offering citizenship to more than 2. 5 million illegal immigrants who gain jobs, university places or military slots sought by young Americans, according to the McClatchy news service.
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) has been infamously dubbed “No Wall McCaul” by immigration reformers who want to see an end to illegal immigration and frivolous cheap labor programs. Despite this, McCaul remains on the list for the top job at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
President Donald Trump’s “Hire American” policy forced companies to raise wages and recruit sidelined Americans for lower-skilled jobs during the summer season, says an article in Politico.
The latest 1,305-page draft House appropriations bill for 2018 uses a bureaucratic trick on page 732 to help employers cut wages for foreign H-2B seasonal workers — and indirectly, to cut wages for American workers.
President Donald Trump’s populist “Hire American’ policy is forcing employers to hire more Americans at higher wages, says a new report by the Wall Street Journal.
Nationally syndicated radio host Laura Ingraham was in a back-and-forth with Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) Sunday, whom she called a “pro-amnesty” Republican.
The Department of Homeland Security has released data showing how former President Barack Obama gave work permits to roughly 2.3 million foreigners for U.S. jobs in 2016.
The New York Times grieved the slowdown of United States companies outsourcing jobs to foreigners, who are often exploited in the process.
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham is urging South Carolinians to vote against him when they disagree with his support for a national amnesty plus a greater inflow of foreign workers to take Americans’ jobs.
Agriculture companies in California are being forced to develop and deploy labor-saving machinery and techniques because reduced illegal immigration is allowing American farmworkers raise their poverty-level wages, according to Los Angeles Times.
GOP leaders and the agriculture industry are stepping up the pressure for more wage-cutting visa-workers following this week’s agreement by homeland security chief John Kelly to approve an additional 15,000 H-2B foreign workers.
There is no justification for importing more low-skilled foreign laborers, a new study shows, despite efforts by the Republican establishment to do just that.
The majority of low-skilled, foreign laborers arrive states like Texas, Florida, Louisiana and Colorado, according to a new study.
Homeland defense secretary James Kelly will approve today a plan to print thousands of additional H-2B visas for foreign blue-collar workers, according to D.C. sources.
As the Trump Administration reviews reforms to the immigration system, seven priority measures emerge.
Despite constant claims from business-friendly politicians and the legacy media of a looming “labor shortage” for low-skilled seasonal jobs, new data by an immigration expert paints a different picture.
North Carolina GOP Sen. Thom Tillis is demanding the Department of Homeland Security approve a larger supply of wage-cutting foreign H-2B contract workers before he allows Senate approval of a top homeland security official.
The Microsoft Corporation is expected to lay-off up to 3,000 employees as the tech conglomerate continues to request and hire more foreign help.
The GOP-run House is expected to vote for two modest immigration-reform bills as soon as this week, but pro-American reformers are using the two votes to build loud and energetic public pressure for major reform legislation.
Donald Trump told his deputies on March 6 to show Americans more of the government data about immigration that was largely hidden by former President Barack Obama.
Pro-American immigration advocates are pushing back against the Department of Homeland Security’s decision to print more H-2B work permits so that more foreign contract workers can take more Americans’ jobs this fall and winter.
President Donald Trump’s administration has seen increases in the number of foreign workers entering the U.S., according to new federal statistics.
The Labor Department announced that it will increase protections for Americans as much as it can, while cracking down on fraud and abuse within various foreign guest worker programs.
DHS Secretary John Kelly fended off politicians’ demands for more imported H-2B workers on Tuesday, telling a Democratic Senator that the administration favors jobs for Americans, not for foreign contract-workers.
President Donald Trump should expand the economy by welcoming illegal immigrant consumers, rather than by boosting Americans’ wages and productivity, says a growing chorus of establishment voices on Wall Street, the federal government, and industry.
Homeland Secretary John Kelly has not made a decision to expand the H-2B cheap-labor program, and his deputies have not even met with counterparts at the Department of Labor to begin the expansion process, says an agency spokesman.
A pro-American employee organization is asking Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary John Kelly to not expand a visa program that outsources blue-collar jobs.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary John Kelly has promised the big business lobby tens of thousands of cheaper, blue-collar foreign workers despite President Donald Trump’s ‘Hire American’ initiative.
A big business lobby is pushing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to expand the H-2B visa, which already offers 66,000 blue-collar American jobs to cheaper, foreign laborers every year.
Four Senators are pressuring homeland security chief John Kelly to reject U.S. companies’ pending pleas for visas to import up to 70,000 extra foreign workers this summer.
The Department of Homeland Security is not rushing to provide U.S. companies with 70,000 extra cheap-labor visas for foreign workers, says an agency official.
A trades union representing American blue-collar construction workers says a plan to expand the H-2B low-skilled foreign guest worker visa is “directly counter” to President Donald Trump’s “Buy American, Hire American” agenda.
