Coming on the heels of the New York Times reporting about widespread child labor aided and abetted by the Biden Administration, and particularly by Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Xavier Becerra, a statewide Florida Grand Jury investigation comes with more receipts for the cost of the Biden Administration’s abuse of unaccompanied alien children … Continued
By Jeremy Beck
The 130,000 encounters at the border in February were 20,000 fewer than last February, but more than any other February dating back to Fiscal Year 2002. The real-world numbers are much worse, according to former immigration judge Andrew R. Arthur, but they “don’t show up in CBP’s apprehension stats because in lieu of entering illegally, … Continued
The casualties in the raging war on workers keep piling up. The latest slavery example comes from Beantown where the owner of Stash’s Pizza was arrested for forced labor by illegal immigrants. The allegations in this case are horrific and include actual violence, threat of violence, and wage theft, to force people to work for … Continued
By Andrew Good
The growing case that immigration-fueled housing prices are driving inflation. As former Clinton staffer and writer William A. Galston wrote for the liberal Brookings Institute website last month, inflation is “President Biden’s biggest political problem.” Around that same time, I saw an interesting Tweet from Roosevelt Institute scholar Mike Konczal breaking down different aspects of … Continued
Here we go again…again. Maybe you thought indentured servitude and forced labor were only found in the agricultural sector of our immigration system, but now we have a nurse filing a lawsuit and seeking a class action certification against her employer. This employer is Health Care Facility Management which is doing business and known as … Continued
By Jeremy Beck
Migrants move to improve their quality of life. This is true of a “Yankee” moving to South Carolina, a Californian moving to Colorado or a Venezuelan coming to the United States. When the numbers get too high, when the demands on infrastructure and resources become too great, the quality of life at those destinations diminishes … Continued
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) takes a lot of the heat for the crumbling border and the chaos it causes in our communities for good reason. The Republicans in the House of Representatives are talking seriously about impeaching Secretary Mayorkas for his total abdication of responsibility to enforce our immigration laws and for endangering … Continued
By Andrew Good
Amid border happenings, sanctuary policies outrages, and declarations that New York City is “full” of migrants, the underlying truth about the immigration battle is that it is fundamentally between those with an insatiable appetite for more foreign workers, and those who embrace the social good of tight labor markets. The economic question has the deepest … Continued
Second verse, same as the first. H-2A agricultural workers from Mexico are suing their domestic employers for unpaid wages. Allegations include failure to reimburse for the costs of obtaining their visas (as had been promised), the promised wage rate in their contract not matching what they were actually paid, and failure to pay overtime. Additionally, … Continued
