By Jeremy Beck
Big U.S. tech firms received significantly more H-1B visas In fiscal year 2017 (which covers the end of the Obama administration and the first eight months of Trump’s) than they did the year before, and that’s bad news for American workers. Foreign companies, particularly from India, are often scapegoated as the primary “abusers” of H-1B … Continued
By Jeremy Beck
The titillating subhead on NPR’s web story promises listeners and readers an outrage: Sessions praised immigration restrictions of the 1920s – laws that are widely regarded today as racist. The implication is clear but reporters Mary Louise Kelly and Joel Rose (who has a history of promoting character assassinations) provide little more than murky insinuations … Continued
By Jeremy Beck
This blog was originally posted one year ago, on January 22, 2016. In light of President Trump’s executive order to pause refugee resettlement and prioritize safe zones for Syrian refugees, we are reposting without changes or edits to the original. This Sunday’s New York Times Magazine feature on Syrian refugees demonstrates how the best way … Continued
By Eric Ruark
Bono (aka Paul David Hewson), one of rock music’s most recognized figures, has long been a political activist working towards the eradication of poverty, hunger, and disease throughout the developing world, focusing much of his effort on raising money to combat the AIDS pandemic in Africa. His work has brought him into contact with some … Continued
By Roy Beck
I’m seeing a lot about “home-grown” terrorists from news media and open-borders enthusiasts. They seem to be suggesting that the fact that many of the perpetrators were not recent immigrants means that immigration policies don’t play a significant role in {text} and the next target cities. Of course, there are many factors other than immigration … Continued
By Roy Beck
In January of 2013 before the nation knew Marco Rubio primarily as the face of the Gang of Eight comprehensive amnesty bill, he was at the top of Republican voters’ preferences for the 2016 presidential nomination. By the time Rubio and his Gang pushed the amnesty through the Senate that summer, the respected Public Policy … Continued
Leading up to next week’s pivotal primaries in Florida and Ohio, Presidential Hopefuls from both parties added some clarity to their immigration positions during debates this week in South Florida. While most of the Republican Hopefuls tried to balance continued levels of immigration with the electorate’s angst over mass immigration, the Democratic Hopefuls all but … Continued
By Eric Ruark
A March 7 story from Bloomberg Businessweek reported on a new poll that surveyed Americans on immigration. The Bloomberg lede was that 61 percent of Americans believe that “continued immigration into the country jeopardizes the United States.” The full survey, commissioned by “global management consulting firm” A.T. Kearney and a market research company The NPD Group, … Continued
By Roy Beck
This was my statement to the national media tonight:.. Today Republican voters again expressed their feelings of betrayal by the Republican Party establishment. Trump was elevated with his promises to defy the party leaders on immigration expansionism in which the concerns of workers are a low priority. The Iowa and New Hampshire contests have been … Continued
