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Immigration Levels Were Hurting U.S. Workers Before COVID-19, Now What?[/h][COLOR=#000000 !important]
by[/COLOR] Eric Ruark
The Center for Immigration Studies released a report this week based on data from the federal government's Current Population Survey. This survey gives detailed information about the nation's unemployed. No surprise it shows U.S.-born and immigrant workers both lost jobs in large numbers. And highlights that the last thing the U.S. needs is more foreign workers.
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House Bill Would Grant Amnesty to Illegal Aliens[/h]
House Democrats unveiled their wish list Tuesday for Covid-19 relief in the form of the HEROES Act, H.R. 6800. The bill will likely receive a floor vote on Friday and is expected to pass. But even House Democrats acknowledge that the bill is more about messaging and has no chance of passing the Republican-controlled Senate.
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Canadians hint at scaling back immigration due to pandemic fallout[/h]
[h=4][COLOR=#000000 !important]PUBLISHED:[/h]Tue, MAY 12th 2020 @ 11:26 am EDT[/COLOR]
The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting unemployment could lead to immigration to Canada being cut for the first time in a decade.
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GOP lawmakers press Trump to suspend visas over coronavirus job losses[/h]
[h=4][COLOR=#000000 !important]PUBLISHED:[/h]Tue, MAY 12th 2020 @ 9:42am EDT[/COLOR]
A number of House Republicans have joined some of their Senate colleagues in writing their own letter to Trump urging that "unaddressed guest worker programs" represent a "greater threat" than did green cards to American jobs.
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U.S. unemployment rate soars to 14.7 percent, the worst since the Depression era[/h]
[h=4][COLOR=#000000 !important]PUBLISHED:[/h]Fri, MAY 8th 2020 @ 9:56 am EDT[/COLOR]
The U.S. unemployment rate jumped to 14.7 percent in April, the highest level since the Great Depression, as most businesses shut down or severely curtailed operations to try and limit the spread of the deadly coronavirus.
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Border Apprehensions Drop to 3-year Low[/h]
[h=4][COLOR=#000000 !important]PUBLISHED:[/h]Fri, MAY 8th 2020 @ 8:51 am EDT[/COLOR]
Border Patrol officers apprehended only 16,789 illegal border crossers in April. It's the lowest number of apprehensions since April 2017 just a few months after Pres. Trump took office. The rapid decline in apprehensions is attributed to both the Covid-19 pandemic and the economic situation.
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Sens. Cotton, Cruz, Hawley & Grassley Press Trump to Suspend Most Visas[/h]
[h=4][COLOR=#000000 !important]PUBLISHED:[/h]Thu, MAY 7th 2020 @ 10:59am EDT[/COLOR]
President Trump is getting new pressure from a quartet of conservative senators to pause the issuance of a set of visas because of coronavirus-related job losses.
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Who Cares About Insects? We All Should If We Care About Nature[/h]
[h=4][COLOR=#000000 !important]PUBLISHED:[/h]Tue, APR 7th 2020 @ 8:17am EDT [COLOR=#000000 !important]
by[/COLOR] Leon Kolankiewicz[/COLOR]
Immigration is driving U.S. population growth, and will continue to account for almost all population growth over the next forty years. We need to think about the effects of growth when we formulate immigration policy. One of the effects is continuing sprawl, and the loss of habitat for wildlife.
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Judicial Watch sues to stop California's illegal immigrant stimulus program[/h]
[h=4][COLOR=#000000 !important]PUBLISHED:[/h]Wed, MAY 6th 2020 @ 12:29 pm EDT[/COLOR]
Judicial Watch announced a lawsuit Tuesday aimed at stopping California’s illegal immigrant stimulus program, saying Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to give out $75 million in taxpayers’ money to help those in the country illegally survive the coronavirus crisis is illegal.
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Are doctors and nurses 'Jobs Americans Won't Do'? A bipartisan group of Senators would have you believe so[/h]
[h=4][COLOR=#000000 !important]PUBLISHED:[/h]Mon, MAY 4th 2020 @ 7:45am EDT [COLOR=#000000 !important]
by[/COLOR] Chris Chmielenski[/COLOR]
Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), David Perdue (R-Ga.), Todd Young (R-Ind.), and Chris Coons (D-Del.) have introduced legislation that would give 40,000 green cards to foreign doctors and nurses, claiming we have a shortage of healthcare providers. But is the "shortage" due to a lack of Americans willing to enter the field, or is it more due more systemic issues?
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Green card bill would bring more foreign doctors, nurses to US despite greatest job loss since Great Depression[/h]
[h=4][COLOR=#000000 !important]PUBLISHED:[/h]Fri, MAY 1st 2020 @ 11:50am EDT[/COLOR]
A group of senators introduced new legislation Thursday to grant 40,000 unused green card slots to foreign health care workers needed to help U.S. medical professionals fight the coronavirus pandemic, despite the President's "immigration ban" and over 30 million joblessness claims in the past six weeks.
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IRS Issuing Stimulus Checks to Foreign Students[/h]
[h=4][COLOR=#000000 !important]PUBLISHED:[/h]Fri, MAY 1st 2020 @ 7:50 am EDT[/COLOR]
A tax filing error has led to thousands of foreign students who performed work in the United States to receive $1,200 stimulus checks. Many of stimulus recipients are no longer in the United States, but performed work in the U.S. while in the country on either an F-1 student visa or a J-1 cultural exchange visa.
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