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Congress should pass an immigration law that delivers a steady flow of foreign visa workers to U.S. employers, Pete Buttigieg says.

Federal data shows that roughly 480,000 Chinese students studied in the United States in 2018, delivering more than $10 billion in fees to universities nationwide.

The Department of Homeland Security has released data showing sharp drops in legal migration from several unstable countries during 2018.

The foreign-born share of the U.S. workforce is slightly declining as President Donald Trump’s “Hire American” economy pulls millions of sidelined Americans into the job market. 

Investor, CEO, and presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg says he would allow investors and employers to hire the “the best” workers from around the world instead of Americans.

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.

Companies will face greater pressure in 2020 to recruit and train blue-collar Americans and also to pay extra wages, say company officials and economists.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi blocked a push by Maine Democrat Rep. Chellie Pingree to double the inflow of foreign blue-collar H-2B workers up to almost 140,000, according to complaints by employers of the visa workers. 

One of the biggest Indian outsourcing companies allegedly cheated 500 American graduates out of jobs over 11 years from 2006 to 2017 — and will only have to pay $800,000, without admitting guilt, in a settlement with California’s attorney general.

GOP Sen. Mike Lee’s revised S.386 Indian-giveaway bill makes a huge change in immigration law to help more than 600,000 Indians — but also may allow investors to flood the white-collar labor market with at least 100,000 extra foreign college-graduate workers each year. 

Joe Biden is promising investors that he will flood the white-collar labor market with a huge inflow of cheap foreign graduates, but he is offering only paperwork protections to the millions of U.S. graduates who will lose jobs, salaries, and careers.

Americans who oppose large-scale immigration are  “snakes and vermin,” says one of the most moderate columnists at the New York Times. 

Nearly all House Democrats, plus a group of 34 Republicans, voted Wednesday to approve an amnesty for illegal farmworkers and to outsource more of the nation’s farm workforce to cheap H-2A visa workers.

Reform groups are pressuring GOP and Democrat legislators to vote against a draft bill that would amnesty at least 500,000 illegal farmworkers and replace them with an expanding inflow of government-delivered, powerless, and low-wage H-2A visa workers.

The House will vote Wednesday to approve or reject a bill that offers fraud-prone amnesty for illegal migrants who claim to have worked on a farm.

The presidents of more than 400 state and private universities have formed a quiet partnership with a top-level group of wealthy investors to help foreign graduates, even though the same alumni will take prestigious jobs from the American graduates of those institutions.

Numerous U.S.-based companies that got Optional Practical Training work permits for Chinese graduates have quietly closed their doors following an ICE crackdown and media investigations, according to a report by NBC Bay Area.

The fake University of Farmington, set up by the Department of Homeland Security, that resulted in the arrest of 250 foreign students this year and prompted outrage from leftists, was a concept embraced by the Obama administration, which engaged in similar operations.

Hollywood actress Alyssa Milano is horrified by the federal government’s conviction and deportation of more than 200 Indians who were trying to sneak into U.S. white-collar jobs and to win U.S. citizenship by fraud. 

Careless elites in government and in universities help the Chinese government steal U.S. technology and get taxpayer funding for Chinese research, says a bipartisan report by the Senate investigations committee.

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.

An alliance of business groups and Democrats has drafted a deal that cuts farmworkers’ wages for many years in a swap for amnesty.

The nation’s immigration law does not allow the large-scale award of work permits to the huge class of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) migrants, the nation’s solicitor general told the Supreme Court on Tuesday.

The Department of Justice has quietly told the Supreme Court that it has no authority to issue work permits to DACA migrants and has effectively invited the court to block the annual award of more than one million work permits to migrants.

Indian H-1B contract workers pressed Democrat Sen. Dick Durbin to demand he support Sen. Mike Lee’s S.386 bill, which rewards Indian graduates.

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. 

India’s contract workers in the United States are raising funds to run attack ads against the Democrat Senator who is blocking their demand for fast-track green cards.

President Donald Trump is converting the former “country club” GOP party to the party of blue-collar America, according to an article in the Wall Street Journal.

President Donald Trump’s chief of staff told reporters that Ken Cuccinelli would make a good leader for the Department of Homeland Security, following the imminent departure of Kevin McAleenan.

Lousiana GOP Sen. John Kennedy has blocked a bill drafted by a top Democratic Senator that would accelerate the flow of Indian visa workers and immigrants into Americans’ office jobs.

The federal government’s immigration policy must benefit ordinary Americans, not just American investors, citizenship chief Ken Cuccinelli told reporters on Wednesday.

The Department of Justice is backing President Barack Obama’s award of work permits to roughly 800,000 ‘DACA’ illegal immigrants.

Oil companies in New Mexico are raising more Americans’ wages because President Donald Trump has tightened immigration enforcement, says a complaint from Reuters news service. 

The Indian visa workers who helped Sen. Mike Lee come close to passing his Indian green card giveaway bill are now portraying Democrat Sen. Dick Durbin as a racist for blocking the bill.

Apple Inc. should be allowed to hire ‘DACA’ illegal migrants because they are good for the company’s shareholders, according to a legal plea sent to the Supreme Court. 

A Korean immigrant is suing Intel Corp. for allowing its imported Indian managers to favor the hiring and promotion of fellow visa-workers from India.