By Joe Jenkins
For years the H-1B program has worked as a discount for employers. Some use it not because they can’t find Americans, but because a worker whose visa depends on the boss costs less and can’t easily quit. The Department of Homeland Security has now proposed putting a $103,265 fee on every new petition that counts … Continued
By Joe Jenkins
For most American workers, the job market has quietly turned into one of the best in a generation. That was the finding of a Wall Street Journal report this week on the labor market for people who never finished college, which is to say the majority of the country. Unemployment for workers between 22 and … Continued
By Jeremy Beck
The march was the culmination of Randolph’s life’s work to advance civil rights through economic empowerment. The immigration restrictions he had successfully advocated for decades prior had contributed to a meteoric rise in Black wealth and, eventually, political power.
It might have happened very differently.
By Joe Jenkins
The H-1B Wage Gap THE H-1B WAGE GAP How the H-1B Program Undercuts American Workers Source: George J. Borjas, NBER Working Paper No. 34793 (Revised March 2026) KEY FINDING H-1B workers earn 15% less than comparable American workers – generating payroll savings exceeding $100,000 per hire over a six-year visa term. This is after controlling … Continued
By Joe Jenkins
Three recent pieces of writing – a New York Times column by Binyamin Appelbaum, a New York Times guest essay by Johns Hopkins economist Jonas Nahm, and a newsletter from American Compass by Oren Cass and Daniel Kishi – converge on a conclusion that should reshape how Americans think about immigration policy: mass immigration is … Continued
Even better would be for Congress to pass legislation to replace the H-1B lottery with a system where visas are awarded based on employers’ willingness to pay the highest wages. NumbersUSA’s Great Solutions bill S. 2821, the American Tech Workforce Act, would do just that. Visit our Action Board to ask your Senators and Congressional Representative to co-sponsor this pro-worker legislation.
Will Colorado politicians continue to support open borders and sanctuary policies, and will Colorado voters support them? Or will the pendulum swing back toward enforcement of our immigration laws and reasonable immigration numbers? Let’s hope it’s the latter
By Andre Barnes
A response to Travis Claybrooks’s op-ed, “Why Black America can’t be silent on ICE arrests and deportations” in the publication The Tennessean In his May 21st, 2025 opinion editorial for the The Tennessean, Travis Claybrooks tries to paint a portrait of fear and abuse from ICE toward illegal aliens, and encourages Black Americans not to … Continued
By Jeremy Beck
Democratic post-election analysis identified immigration – both the border crisis and overall levels – as the decisive issue in the 2024 presidential election. It remains President Trump’s most popular issue and one of the Democratic party’s greatest liabilities.
