Winning: Companies Hire Americans Instead of Foreign Visa 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.
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Los Angeles Times: Fewer Illegals Means Higher Wages, More Farm Robots
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.
WashPo: Elite Economists Boost Donald Trump’s ‘Merit Based’ Immigration Reform
A Washington Post survey of established economists shows growing support for President Donald Trump’s plan to reform immigration for greater productivity and higher wages.
Speaker Ryan Squeezes 15,000 Extra H-2B Workers From DHS Chief John Kelly
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.
DHS Kelly Drops ‘Likely’ Approval for H-2B Worker Expansion, Now Studying Issue
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.
H-2B Visas Cut Americans’ Wages, Four Senators Tell DHS Chief
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.
White House Posts ‘Hire American’ Executive Order
President Donald Trump’s White House has released the text of his new “hire American” Executive Order, which orders a multi-agency reform of the nation’s many guest-worker programs to help raise Americans’ wages and salaries.
H-1B: Donald Trump Orders Legal Review of Outsourcing Visa Programs
Four federal agencies will put many U.S. visa worker programs, including the white-collar H-1B program, through a “full legal analysis,” a White House official told reporters Monday night.
