On Wednesday, July 26th, 2023, Secretary Mayorkas, head of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), testified before the House Judiciary Committee. The 24-page written testimony he submitted for the record says a great deal about his vision for the future of the immigration policy landscape. He wrote about backlogs blocking alien benefit applications, so-called DREAMers … Continued

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According to the Wall Street Journal, there were 171,000 fewer Information Technology (IT)-related jobs across companies in the United States in June. This caused a .3% increase in the IT unemployment rate in just one month. IT job postings on employment site Indeed are down 61 percent from the same time last year. This follows … Continued

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The child labor boom continues with Monogram Meat Snacks paying a $30,000 fine and agreeing to increased oversight from the Department of Labor (DOL) after being caught hiring teenagers in their dangerous Minnesota facility. This is only the latest meatpacking company to be caught using child labor. Packers Sanitation Services recently paid a $1.5 million … Continued

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If you’ve read or seen reports from the media this week, or heard Biden Administration officials talk about the border, you might think that the border crisis is beginning to wind down. Yes, the number of illegal border crossings has lessened. But the illegal aliens showing up at ports of entry along the Southwest border … Continued

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The Green Mountain State and its taxpayers are the latest casualty of the notoriously corrupt EB-5 program. (It’s called EB-5 because it is the fifth-preference category of Employment-Based visas.) Who would have thought an immigration program selling United States citizenship to the highest bidder would be prone to fraud? This $16.5 million dollar settlement will … Continued

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It isn’t even Christmas in July yet, but the Biden Administration is making a list and checking it twice. Too bad they want to reward the naughty, not the nice. Reading the smoke signals, it appears Biden is shelving the Trump era rule tying H-1B visa allocation to the petitions offering the highest wages, rather … Continued

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The New York Times is really digging deep to slap a sunny narrative on the state of emergency in New York City due to the border crisis. What they have come up with is the “great development” that migrant women desperate for work are joining the dangerous construction industry. Hooray? The Department of Labor keeps … Continued

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In an 8-1 decision, the Supreme Court has absolved the Federal Government from the requirement to faithfully execute the laws passed by the duly elected Congress. The issue here was whether the Biden Administration could promulgate enforcement priorities contrary to the laws passed by Congress. The Court did not say President Biden was acting lawfully. … Continued

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We have some more worker exploitation news, and this one is a doozy. Che Garibaldi Inc., operator of Taqueria Garibaldi, brought in a ‘priest’ for employees during work hours. This ‘priest’ would hear confessions and encourage employees to “get the sins out.” He seemed very focused on getting out the real seven deadly sins–namely whether … Continued

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