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Universities are lobbying against a White House reform that will likely provide jobs and higher salaries to hundreds of thousands of their American graduates.

President Donald Trump’s deputies have launched a fundamental reform of the H-1B visa system to protect American graduates from outsourcing — despite furious opposition from donors and leaders from Silicon Valley, Fortune 500 companies, and coastal investors.

North Carolina is a critical swing state where many white-collar voters are losing their jobs to H-1B visa workers — yet President Donald Trump did not tout his popular reforms of the visa worker programs.

Advocates for H-1B visa-worker program are protesting the wage increases required by President Donald Trump’s deputies, saying the raises will sharply reduce hiring of the foreign workers.

Business groups, labor-brokers, and migration advocates are protesting a draft regulation that would open up many thousands of outsourced white-collar jobs to debt-burdened U.S. graduates.

The pool of foreign workers in the United States is falling because fewer foreigners are enrolling at U.S. universities, according to a Bloomberg article that prompted many complaints by business and migration advocates.

The long-awaited reform of the H-1B outsourcing program that was promised by Donald Trump in 2016 has been sent to the White House for approval, according to a chorus of concerned corporate immigration lawyers. 

Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., announced his strong opposition to Utah Sen. Mike Lee’s S.386 outsourcing bill, likely killing the Utah Republican’s bill for the rest of the year. 

Florida GOP Sen. Rick Scott may be a secret agent for China, says a website registered by Immigration Voice, a group trying to put hundreds of thousands of India’s H-1B contract workers on a fast track to green cards and citizenship.

An IT staffing services firm, with an office in Hyderabad, India, discriminated against qualified Americans for white-collar jobs in favor of foreign workers with the Optional Training Program (OPT), the Department of Justice (DOJ) concludes.

Sen. Mike Lee’s latest version of S.386 creates a novel “Green Card Lite” legal status to help Fortune 500 companies import many more Indian graduates into U.S. white collar jobs.

The primary lobby group for India’s contract workers in the United States is turning its invective against Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) after he blocked the bipartisan bill to supercharge the flow of India’s visa workers into U.S. white-collar jobs.

Americans oppose the inflow of foreign visa workers and seasonal workers by roughly two-to-one during the coronavirus epidemic and crash, according to a new survey by the highly ranked Ipsos polling firm.

President Donald Trump’s decision on August 3 to block H-1B outsourcing contractors at the Tennessee Valley Authority is just part of an ambitious agenda for the rest of the year, insiders tell Breitbart News.

Investors lost $40 billion last week when Intel Corp. admitted a technical flaw has delayed a new generation of computer chips.

The attorney general has junked his department’s 2017 letter declaring the illegality of President Barack Obama’s 2012 amnesty, dubbed the Deferred Arrival for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) amnesty.

The New York Times provided a protected op-ed slot to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to explain why it is asking a judge to veto President Donald Trump’s June 22 curbs on visa workers.

Millions of illegal migrants and illegal workers should be allowed to take licensed jobs, such as electricians, welders, lab technicians, therapists, and nurses, according to legislation pushed by progressives, universities, and investors.

The migrants and the media are also tools of major corporations who wish to block President Donald Trump’s on-again, off-again immigration reforms.

The government will preserve a coronavirus rule that helps Fortune 500 companies recruit foreign graduates from U.S. colleges amid the pandemic, government lawyers told a judge Tuesday.

A Rasmussen poll shows two-to-one public opposition among swing voters to the universities’ little known Optional Practical Training (OPT) program, which quietly puts 500,000 foreign graduates into the starter jobs needed by American graduates each year.

Suburban women overwhelmingly support President Donald Trump’s policy of freezing the inflow of foreign workers until they, their husbands, and their children regain the jobs lost to the coronavirus crash, according to a poll of 1,810 likely voters by Rasmussen Reports.

The universities’ media-magnified hostility to a minor rule change for student visas is motivated by money, says Ken Cuccinelli, the acting deputy secretary of homeland defense.

More than 25,000 U.S. university teachers signed a petition that touts job-seeking migrants by demeaning U.S. citizenship as merely an “artificial distinction” between Americans and foreigners.

Harvard is suing the federal government to restore a temporary loophole that helps its graduates get work permits — and which can be fraudulently used by other foreigners to get the jobs needed by American graduates. 

Universities and migration advocates are denouncing the administration’s decision to revive a rule that denies student visas and work permits to migrants who enroll in online-only U.S. colleges.

A trade association that includes General Motors and the Koch Industries is asking President Donald Trump to cancel his popular June 22 decision to narrow and reform the nation’s visa worker programs.

A California state agency is recognizing the quiet spread of India’s ancient caste discrimination into America’s Fortune 500 professional workplaces.

President Donald Trump’s deputies are drafting a dramatic range of fresh regulations to curb the Fortune 500’s use of illegal migrants and visa workers.

If President Donald Trump can push his H-1B reforms into 2021, he will dramatically increase the marketplace power of U.S. college graduates, complains a top manager at the Fortune 500 business group the Conference Board.

Joe Biden told NBC News that he would immediately lift President Donald Trump’s moratorium on the inflow of H-1B contract workers.

U.S. employers keep roughly 600,000 foreign H-1B visa workers in jobs throughout the United States, according to an unprecedented report released today by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) agency.

U.S. tech companies need to import “top tier talent” so they can beat China’s aggressive companies, says a bait-and-switch message from ex-Google chief Eric Schmidt to the White House.

Americans need more migrants to recover from the coronavirus crash, according to former President George W. Bush’s presidential center.

Facebook has a policy of favoring H-1B workers over Americans, and encouraging hiring managers to favor Chinese and Korean visa workers over other visa workers, according to a leaked document released by Project Veritas.

The Department of Homeland Security has reportedly warned at least 200 Indian college graduates that it knows their “Optional Practical Training” work permits were gained by fraud at storefront companies, says an Indian lawyer.