Immigration and Wages

A plurality of Americans recognize that companies employ migrants to cut Americans’ wages, says a pro-migration survey funded by the Unite Here! union.

Homeland Security chief Markwayne Mullin will soon review a plan to expand worksite inspections, Border Czar Tom Homan said Sunday.

Wages in construction are rising as the nation’s labor market recovers from the flood of cheap, subsidized labor imported by pro-migration policies before 2024, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

Migration politics are tough because rival factions in the GOP constantly push for their different goals, President Donald Trump told an audience of Hispanic supporters and business executives.

A supposedly moderate Democrat says his “biggest desire” is to grant amnesty to millions of wage-cutting illegal migrants.

The Justice Department’s civil rights section is investigating numerous allegations of anti-American discrimination by hiring managers and their companies, says Harmeet Dhillon, the U.S. assistant attorney general for civil rights.

“If an American corporation needs workers, it should hire and train Americans,” Vice President JD Vance posted shortly after agency officials announced plans to charge $103,265 for every new H-1B contract worker who is imported by U.S. companies.

Criminal networks are selling Americans’ white-collar jobs via the huge and complex H-1B visa program, says Anthony D’Esposito, the Inspector General at the Department of Labor.

Elder care companies are hiring Americans at higher wages because President Donald Trump ended President Joe Biden’s amnesty-like Temporary Protected Status (TPS) giveaway for 350,000 Haitian migrants.

Zach Lahn, the GOP’s candidate for the Iowa governorship, is promising to block state hiring of H-1B visa workers for white-collar jobs and is condemning a House bill to expand the inflow of H-2A laborers into the state’s agricultural sector.

The Department of Homeland Security has levied fines worth $84 billion against 103,000 illegal migrants, says the New York Times.

The Department of Homeland Security is visiting worksites to check for illegals, “but I want more,” border czar Tom Homan told the Center for Immigration Studies.

The Democratic Party’s rising socialist faction hurts ordinary Americans because it helps employers import wage-cutting migrants, Vice President JD Vance told streaming host Joe Rogan.

Americans most oppose migration because of its damaging impact on housing and jobs for Americans, says a new Gallup poll.

Fairness and the law won once the federal government decided to end Temporary Protected Status for 350,000 Haitian migrants, says the citizens’ group that led the opposition to the Haitian influx into Springfield, Ohio.

Supporters of the H-1B outsourcing program should admit the “gross abuse” within the program if they want it to survive growing public hostility, a West Coast investor told an evasive Axios journalist.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins is celebrating the agreement by the Department of Homeland Security to grant seasonal H-2A work permits to year-round migrant dairy workers.

Even the Wall Street Journal’s editors have suddenly recognized that the economic harm caused by illegal migration undermines claimed public support for legalized migration.

The Wall Street Journal posted a remarkably balanced article about the economic impacts of migration on the Swiss population.

Markwayne Mullin’s Department of Homeland Security has arrested two managers and almost 50 illegal migrants at a manufacturing site in South Carolina.

The government should supercharge the inflow of migrants and white-collar visa workers just as millions of Americans lose their jobs and careers to artificial intelligence, says Silicon Valley investor and AI advocate Jason Calacanis.

High wages are better than high migration, Vice President JD Vance told reporters at the White House on Tuesday.

Tech Billionaire Eric Schmidt is rejecting any immigration compromise that would help Americans cope with the mass layoffs being caused by Artificial Intelligence technology.

Steve Hilton, a GOP candidate for California governor, said Tuesday he would grow the economy via innovation and productivity, not migration.

Florida GOP Rep. Marie Salazar says her pending Dignidad Act is intended to deliver “cheap labor” to all sectors of the economy.

President Donald Trump cannot end President Joe Biden’s award of the quasi-amnesty Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to migrants because they expand U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP), says an appeal to the Supreme Court for an April 29 hearing.

Vice President JD Vance is urging young Americans to lobby politicians against visa worker programs, including the H-1B program that helps managers trade Americans’ jobs to kickback-paying foreign graduates.

The United States needs a policy of “high-value migration,” not a continuation of the post-1990 easy-migration policies that create endless fights over migrant crimes, economic damage, and business-backed amnesties, according to White House aide Stephen Miller.

Rep. Maria Salazar’s migration bill is a high-stakes attack by business groups on the income and political participation of the GOP’s populist-minded voters.

President Donald Trump’s migration cutoff is pressuring a huge meatpacking firm to offer better wages to President Joe Biden’s last wave of low-wage migrants.

Banking groups are trying to block a White House plan to spur deportations by excluding millions of illegal migrants from the nation’s banking system, according to the Washington Post.

Many white collar American voters are so enraged by their hate for President Donald Trump they do not recognize the growing economic threat of the H-1B visa program, says pollster Brent Buchanan, founder of Cygnal, a polling firm.

A new poll shows a supermajority of voters want the government to ensure employers comply with federal immigration laws.

Federal deportation policy is undergoing a “course correction” amid pushback from swing-voting Latinos, according to House Speaker Mike Johnson.

Pro-American lobby groups cautiously praised President Donald Trump’s decision to pick Sen. Markwayne Mullin as the new Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.

Oklahoma’s Republican governor says states should be allowed to provide work permits to migrants — whatever the inevitable damage to citizens and workplace investment.