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The number of foreigners getting green cards and legal resident status dropped by just 7.3 percent from 2016 to 2018, according to new data released by the Department of Homeland Security. 

President Donald Trump will transfer another $7.2 billion from Pentagon accounts in 2020 to build the promised border wall, according to the Washington Post.

White House officials have drafted a plan to block travel from several additional countries unless their governments tighten security on U.S.-bound flights, according to the Associated Press. 

Tom Steyer, the billionaire investor and Democrat 2020 candidate, wants Americans to provide cheap housing to illegal immigrants.

Immigration makes all of America richer, but it can make some Americans poorer, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office says in a report issued January 9.

A federal appeals court released $3.6 billion in border wall funding Wednesday that had been blocked by a lawsuit.

A tight labor market is good for Americans because it forces companies to train their workforces and to recruit sidelined Americans, Ivanka Trump told the annual meeting of the consumer electronics industry. 

The government has released videos of Indian migrants offering to buy and sell fraudulent Optional Practical Training (OPT) work permit documents offered by undercover agents at the fake University of Farmington.

A Chinese-American civic group is opposing Sen. Mike Lee’s push to accelerate the inflow of Indian graduates into voting booths, U.S. workplaces, and the Utah economy.

Joe Biden says the Statue of Liberty invites the world’s poor to migrate into Americans’ workplaces, schools, and housing, but they are being stopped by President Donald Trump. 

The nation’s Military-Industrial Complex needs 600 million immigrants to counter China’s expansion, says Vox.com editor Matthew Yglesias.

President Donald Trump is preparing a pushback against the states — including New York — which are giving drivers’ licenses to many hundreds of thousands of unidentifiable illegal migrants. 

Most Americans want sharp reductions to the annual inflow of roughly one million legal immigrant workers, consumers, and renters.

The Census Bureau claims that immigration dropped to just 595,000 people in the 12 months up to mid-2019, but the estimate is built on conflicting data, said Steven Camarota, a statistician at the Center for Immigration Studies.

Wages for Americans have jumped since ICE arrested almost 700 illegals at several labor-intensive chicken plants in Mississippi — yet the New York Times disdains the extra cash as “little.”

Three million Central Americans, or almost 10 percent of the combined populations of Hondurans, Guatemala, and El Salvador, migrated into the United States before 2018, mostly for economic reasons, says a December 2019 report by the Inter-American Development Bank. 

The leading lobbying group for India’s massive workforce in the United States is claiming that Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin has torpedoed closed-door talks with GOP Sen. Mike Lee.

Thirty-four Republicans voted December 11 to amnesty at least one million illegals and also to import a wave of cheap visa-workers who will lower wages throughout the farm workforce, which includes at least one million American workers.

Wages for blue-collar Americans are rising by 4.3 percent in 2019 — or 2.7 percent after inflation — in President Donald Trump’s tightening labor market, according to Goldman Sachs.

Immigration officials have quadrupled their workplace investigations into illegal hiring, so pressuring companies to offer more pay and more training to millions of young American workers in President Donald Trump’s “Hire American” economy.

Donald Trump’s deputies hired illegal aliens in his network of hotels and clubs, and he treated them well, before he entered politics, says a report by the Washington Post.

Illegal migrants are subsidizing Americans, Pete Buttigieg told a December 1 meeting hosted by progressives in North Carolina.

Democrats are ignoring Martin O’Malley’s disastrous record in Maryland as they applaud his effort to embarrass citizenship director Ken Cuccinelli at a Thanksgiving Eve school reunion. 

Democratic 2020 candidate Michael Bloomberg says he will recruit “an awful lot more” immigrants “to take all the different kinds of jobs” in the U.S. economy.

Much of the agriculture sector applauded Democrats on the House judiciary committee who passed their joint amnesty-for-cheap-workers bargain in a party-line vote, 18 to 12.

A new regulation will allow U.S. border officers to send asylum seekers to several Latin American countries instead of being released into the United States.

The House judiciary committee will debate and vote Wednesday on a bill to award multiple amnesties to the agriculture industry’s large illegal-immigrant workforce.

The population of so-called “Dreamer” illegal aliens has risen by at least one million since President Barack Obama announced his Rose Garden DACA amnesty for child migrants who entered the United States before 2007.

South Dakota GOP Sen. Mike Rounds has drafted a bill that would help wealthy Chinese buy citizenship — and would also help steer investment away from the heartland states towards the increasingly wealthy states on the coasts.

A new report from ONS shows that the number of non-EU born foreign workers has climbed to an all-time high in the United Kingdom.

Administration officials are backing Chad Wolf as a safe choice for the job of acting secretary at the Department of Homeland Defense.

Three million migrants flooded across the border from 2013 to 2018, including 416,133 people who claimed to need asylum in the United States, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

GOP Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) is championing legislation to reward Indian workers who take jobs sought by American college graduates.

Russia and Hungary have agreed to jointly rebuild a monastery in Syria, along with financing a large bakery to provide bread for a whole city, Hungarian foreign minister Peter Szijjarto told public radio on Sunday.

Mass migration encourages mass discrimination against Americans, especially against black employees, according to federal data unearthed by the Center for Immigration Studies.

President Donald Trump’s low-migration economy is forcing many companies to boost Americans’ productivity with better software, faster robots, and more machines,  says a Reuters survey of company reports.