Why are Unions Supporting Big Business Immigration Policy?
By Jared Culver
Since 2000, labor unions have abandoned their historical skepticism of mass immigration and gradually learned to love bloated labor markets.
Category: Economic Challenges
America’s farmers, ranchers, and producers don’t want the consequences of immigration-driven population growth
By Rob Harding
The consequences of our expanding population encroaching on America’s farm and ranch strongholds were on the minds of many attendees at the 2024 American Farm Bureau Convention.
Senate Immigration Deal Fails to Measure Up Against Barbara Jordan’s Credibility Yardstick
By Jeremy Beck
The Senate’s $118 billion border bill fails to measure up to Barbara Jordan’s simple yardstick to measure credible enforcement. Here are some of the details:
“Worker Shortage” or Employer Preference?
By Jeremy Beck
There is a long history of legislation siding with employers’ preferences for foreign labor over Black Americans. We have the receipts.
Treat Essential Workers Better
By Roy Beck
Most of the people celebrated as “essential workers” during the pandemic were part of the working classes whose interests had been ignored and devalued for decades by the makers of immigration policies — policies that had steadily depressed their wages and their labor participation rates. And, of course, many of them were immigrants themselves who now found their climb up the economic ladder depressed by each annual legal arrival of a million more permanent competitors, not counting the unauthorized foreign workers.
Stop Taking Black Wealth
By Roy Beck
While government, banking, and societal practices have taken wealth from Black communities before the wealth could grow, federal high-immigration/loose-labor policies have taken wealth from Black communities before it is even earned.
Border Policy, Housing, Water, and Farms
By Jeremy Beck
Given immigration’s recent and projected contributions to U.S. population growth, immigration policy is an important factor that drives up housing prices and rents. According to a study published by the Urban Institute’s Housing Matters Initiative, immigration causes a significant increase in home prices and rents in the metropolitan areas where migrants settle, and an even … Continued
Investigation Gives More Examples of Indentured Servitude in Nursing
By Jared Culver
While nurses are overworked and underpaid, the elite remain baffled as to why there is a labor shortage in the profession. The largest strike in the recorded history of the healthcare industry occurred last year. We covered the lawsuit of a foreign nurse alleging indentured servitude before but, now there is a new report on … Continued
New Regulations Demonstrate H2 Visas Need Real Reform
Both the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and the Wage and Hour Division (WHD) have noticed new regulations designed to protect foreign workers from the explosion of exploitation within the labor market. While the attempts to stop the exploitation should be applauded, the new regulations are properly understood as mere Band-Aids on deep … Continued