Immigration Posts Visas

Biden Administration Rejects Student Visa Time Limits

In a move consistent with the Biden administration’s walk back of former President Donald Trump’s tougher immigration actions and guidelines, the Department of Homeland Security announced that it would not pursue time limits on student F-1 visas. Like virtually all of the dozens of visas available to foreign nationals through the federal [...]

13
Jul

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Biden: Un-Uniting America

Give President Joe Biden grudging credit. Few if any presidential candidates have delivered on their campaign promises with such machine gun fire-like speed as President Biden. If only the newly elected president had paused to ask himself who his kept promises are helping, he’d be better off in the long [...]

25
Jan

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Biden’s Choice: His Silicon Valley Masters or U.S. IT Workers

From the instant that President Joe Biden takes office, he’ll be under heavy pressure from his base to undo President Trump’s immigration-related Executive Orders. But in most cases, reversing what President Trump has done will be easier said than done. Among the greatest challenges to Biden’s administration will be its [...]

05
Jan

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Cruz Blocks Chinese Spy Bill

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, a conservative Republican, gave his 2016 presidential campaign a good go. Cruz announced his candidacy in March 2015, ran as an outsider, and outlasted prominent GOP rivals, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul. In the end, Cruz fell [...]

04
Jan

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‘Scranton’ Joe and Immigration

On the rare occasions that Joe Biden emerged from his basement into the daylight in the run-up to the election, he touted his Scranton roots. Biden’s tone was along the lines of, “Hey, it’s me, plain old Blue-Collar Joe, a guy from working-class Scranton who will make American workers’ concerns [...]

16
Nov
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For Trump, Time is Up on ‘Hire American’

Three years ago, President Trump issued his “Buy American, Hire American” Executive Order. But as the November election draws closer, many critics insist that President Trump has come up short on his promise to “hire American.” The president’s myriad critics cynically joke that COVID-19 has been more effective at slowing [...]

24
Sep

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Kamala Harris – Silicon Valley Love Affair

Vice Presidential nominee Kamala Harris’ Democratic National Convention acceptance speech failed to provide answers to voters seeking insight into how new leadership might help them get a better job or earn a higher wage. Polling taken just a week before Harris addressed the DNC found that the economy remains the [...]

21
Aug
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U.S. Tech Workers Score Big TVA Win

When President Trump signed his Executive Order that banned federal contractors from hiring foreign-born H-1B visa holders, an historic moment occurred in the three-decade long effort to protect American workers’ jobs. The president’s order will require all federal agencies to complete an internal audit to assess whether they’re in compliance [...]

06
Aug
Immigration Order

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Trump Immigration Order Sends Big Tech into Advocacy Overdrive

Never has Big Tech pushed harder for cheap labor for the rich and powerful than it’s done in the last few weeks. The latest available data show that, from 2005 to 2018, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft laid out an aggregate $582 million to protect their collective interests on [...]

22
Jul
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Government-Owned Tennessee Valley Authority Outsources American Jobs in Midst of Employment Crisis

Missing from President Trump’s 2017 “Buy American and Hire American” Executive Order was an addendum that should have read: “Don’t Fire Americans!” COVID-19 has left many employers with no choice but to furlough – the politically correct word for “fire” – millions of U.S. workers. Business shutdowns, some temporary and [...]

14
Jul
Students

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Despite ICE Order, History Proves that International Students Unlikely to be Deported

Editor’s Note: Author Joe Guzzardi’s prediction that “zero” students would be deported was 100 percent accurate. On July 15, two days after Guzzardi’s commentary, the Trump administration canceled its ICE order. __________ The Student and Exchange Visitor Program, a Department of Homeland Security unit that oversees non-immigrant students, recently announced [...]

10
Jul
OPT

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OPT: Taxpayer-Subsidized Program Displaces U.S. Tech Workers

President Trump’s June 22 Executive Order (EO) that suspended through year-end 2020 several temporary nonimmigrant visas that include employment authorization is a good beginning. But as the Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu would have said way back around 600 B.C., “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” [...]

01
Jul
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Trump Acts to Defend American Workers

Finally! After nearly three decades of pleading to deaf Republican and Democratic congresses for a fair shake, American workers, especially those in the tech sector who have been relentlessly displaced by workers imported from other countries, can celebrate. The biggest winners are U.S. tech workers who have been, because of [...]

23
Jun
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GOP Joins Fortune 500 Immigration Expansionists in Push for More Visas even with Massive Unemployment

If a contest were held to name the visas most hurtful to American workers among the 25-odd federally issued ones that include employment authorization, a tie would be the likely outcome. The overwhelming majority of employment-based visas mean that an American job will be lost to a foreign national or [...]

16
Jun
NAFTA

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Like NAFTA, USMCA Lacks U.S. Worker Protections

A few years after President Bill Clinton signed the North American Free Trade Agreement, Rolling Stone sent investigative reporter Dan Baum out to pound the pavement to learn how the globalist-hyped deal was working on both sides of the border. When President Clinton promised during his 1993 signing that NAFTA, [...]

26
May

Immigration Posts

Who Will Get Laid Off, the H-1B or the American Worker?

  At a time of growing unemployment in the United States, one might mistakenly believe when it comes to laying off workers, non-citizens here on temporary employment visas will be laid off first. However, this video reveals a perverse set of incentives for the employer to retain foreign workers over [...]

22
May
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As Expiration Date on Trump’s Immigration Order Approaches, Globalists Panic

The substation at Norris Dam on the Clinch River, Norris, Tennessee, was built in 1936 and was the first in the Tennessee Valley Authority system. Time is short to the expiration of President Trump’s Executive Order that suspended some immigration, and expansionists are pulling out all the stops. At stake [...]

21
May
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Economy be Damned; Congress Wants More Tech, Health Care Green Cards

No matter how beaten down American workers are or how dim their employment prospects, the White House and Congress continue their relentless insistence on importing hundreds of thousands more foreign-born workers. At the same time, legal immigration remains mostly unchanged, and annually adds more than one million life-time work authorized [...]

05
May
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Cotton Proposes to Restrict Student Visas to Chinese

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) said in a nationally televised interview that issuing F-1 visas to Chinese students to allow them to pursue “quantum computing degrees” is a self-defeating exercise. Studying Shakespeare and the Federalist papers would be okay with Cotton, a Harvard J.D. graduate, U.S. Army captain and Afghanistan war [...]

30
Apr
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Explained: Why Trump Backpedaled on his Immigration Order

Just hours after President Trump announced that his Executive Order would pause most immigration to the U.S. during the current high unemployment period, he abruptly shifted gears. Under his revised Executive Order, employment-based visas would be issued as per usual, a devastating blow to the 26 million Americans who have [...]

28
Apr
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Neither Coronavirus nor Soaring Unemployment Stops Immigration

If President Trump is, as he claimed, leading “America’s all-out war” against the coronavirus, he has an odd way of proving it. President Trump’s war apparently doesn’t include the simple, effective and legal end, under his presidential authority, of issuing needless employment-based visas to foreign nationals. Many of the new [...]

03
Apr

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Dallas Fed Promotes Amnesty, Labor Pool Expansion

  The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas has, in what it claims is in the best interest of Texas’ economic growth, sided with cheap-labor-addicted employers, and against American workers. A preliminary draft of an article that the Dallas Fed wrote for the “International Migration Review” concluded that a strictly enforced [...]

13
Feb

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Once Again We Were Attacked by The SPLC

Recently we found ourselves once again attacked and maligned by the hobgoblins at the Southern Policy Law Center (SPLC). The funny thing is the last time they attacked us and devoted a page on their website to PFIR and our programs, they insinuated our then and long- serving Executive Director, [...]

09
Feb

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The Durbin Amendment to S-386

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18
Dec

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Et Tu, Fortune? Bias infests once respected magazine

Michael Goodwin, a New York Post columnist who began his journalism career at The New York Times, last month wrote a two-part commentary that chronicled the long, steady erosion of reporting integrity. Although Goodwin focused on the Times, his observations that bias has become common in the mainstream media easily [...]

11
Dec

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New Report: 53 Million Americans Hold Low-Wage Jobs

The Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program just released a study that casts serious doubt on President Trump’s insistence that the economy is improving, and that the employment market is strong. Brookings’ findings confirm that working doesn’t necessarily translate into earning a decent wage. Despite record low 3.6 percent unemployment, the [...]

14
Nov

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Trump’s Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
November 7, 2019

On November 11, Chad Wolf, acting Under Secretary for Strategy, Policy and Plans at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and former Chief of Staff for Kirstjen Nielsen who served for two years as DHS Secretary, will replace Kevin McAleenan as Secretary for DHS. As his reason for resigning, McAleenan [...]

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PFIR Response to WaPo Story of ‘Indians Stranded in India’
October 8, 2019

PFIR’s Excecutive Director responds to the Oct. 3, 2019, WaPo article, “A D.C. family stranded in India by our dysfunctional immigration system,” by Petula Dvorak. Response immediately below; WaPo article below response: Dear Petula: I read with great interest your article entitled “A D.C. family stranded in India by our [...]

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Signs of Hope: H-1B Denials, ‘Public Charge’ Rejections Up

White House insiders report that Stephen Miller, President Trump’s senior advisor and go-to immigration guy, is no longer the point man. Instead, going forward, the president will rely on his immigration know-nothing son-in-law Jared Kushner. Slight correction: Kushner isn’t quite a complete immigration dunce. He’s savvy enough to realize that [...]

20
Sep

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Walmart, Anthem, Boeing, et al: You Get What You Pay For
July 11, 2019

Multinational retailer Walmart recently announced that it will lay off almost 600 corporate employees. According to the Business Insider, the finance and accounting jobs will be outsourced to Genpact, described as a New-York based professional services firm. Genpact isn’t a household name. So, who are they? According to Wikipedia, Genpact [...]

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Kushner’s Immigration Plan Would Displace More American Workers from Good Jobs

White House senior advisor Jared Kushner’s immigration plan is a direct threat to thousands of U.S. workers with white-collar jobs. Kushner’s vision, which he’s worked on for months, and developed under the false pretense that the nation has a dire labor shortage, would emphasize skilled labor, but would further displace [...]

14
May

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U.S. Tech Worker Defender Cissna Deserves to Keep USCIS Job

Just days before Congress adjourned for its spring recess, Capitol Hill rumors circulated that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Francis Cissna was in the departure lounge, soon to be removed. Since President Trump fired Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and Secret Service Director Randolph Alles, gossip-crazed Washington expected the [...]

03
May

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Mexican police detain hundreds of Central American migrants
April 22, 2019

PIJIJIAPAN, Mexico – Mexican police and immigration agents have detained hundreds of Central American migrants in the largest single raid on a migrant caravan since the groups started moving through Mexico last year. Police targeted the tail end of a caravan of about 3,000 migrants who were making their way [...]

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Migrants break border gate, force their way into Mexico
April 12, 2019

[ad_1] MEXICO CITY – Mexican authorities said a group of about 350 migrants broke the locks on a gate at the Guatemalan border Friday and forced their way into southern Mexico to join a larger group of migrants trying to make their way toward the United States. The National Immigration [...]

More than 100,000 migrants apprehended or turned away at border in March, CBP reveals

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More than 100,000 migrants apprehended or turned away at border in March, CBP reveals

[ad_1] More than 103,000 migrants were turned away from or apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border last month, U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced Tuesday, an increase of nearly 106 percent over the same period last year. In all, CBP said it apprehended 92,607 people, including 53,077 family units (a 45.3 [...]

09
Apr
California Gov. Gavin Newsom kicks off El Salvador tour to offer alternative to Trump’s ‘demoralizing’ rhetoric

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom kicks off El Salvador tour to offer alternative to Trump’s ‘demoralizing’ rhetoric

[ad_1] California Gov. Gavin Newsom, second from right, walks out with San Salvador Mayor Ernesto Muyshondtof, far left, after they visited the tomb of Archbishop Oscar Romero at Metropolitan Cathedral in San Salvador, El Salvador. (Associated Press) California Gov. Gavin Newsom arrived in El Salvador on Sunday to begin a four-day trip [...]

08
Apr
California Gov. Gavin Newsom plans Central America trip to examine 'root causes of migration'

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom plans Central America trip to examine ‘root causes of migration’

[ad_1] California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday he will travel to El Salvador this month to discuss the poverty and violence that’s causing waves of migrants to seek asylum in the United States. (Associated Press) California Gov. Gavin Newsom will head to El Salvador this month to meet with lawmakers to get [...]

07
Apr
Surge of Illegal Immigration 'Undercutting' U.S. Wage Hikes

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Surge of Illegal Immigration ‘Undercutting’ U.S. Wage Hikes

[ad_1] Former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach says the flood of illegal immigrants arriving in the United States on a daily basis is “undercutting” President Trump’s “Hire American” economy by threatening to choke recent wage hikes for America’s blue collar and working class. Trump’s populist-nationalist agenda of increasing immigration [...]

05
Apr
Exclusive: Kobach - Three Steps to Solve the Border Crisis

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Exclusive: Kobach – Three Steps to Solve the Border Crisis

[ad_1] The President’s declaration of a national emergency at the border is increasingly looking like an understatement.  Caravan after caravan of illegal aliens from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador pushes toward our border. Mexico is warning that the “mother of all caravans” – over 20,000 people – is gathering in [...]

04
Apr
Migrants face 'culture of hostility' in El Paso court, lawyers say; claim judge calls it the 'Bye-Bye Place'

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Migrants face ‘culture of hostility’ in El Paso court, lawyers say; claim judge calls it the ‘Bye-Bye Place’

A group of immigration attorneys alleges that judges at an El Paso, Texas, immigration court have fostered a “culture of hostility and contempt towards noncitizens” by making inappropriate comments and weakening due process, according to a complaint filed Wednesday. The complaint alleges that the court’s immigration judges have made inappropriate comments toward immigrants. It [...]

04
Apr
Tucker Carlson: Our lawmakers have allowed the crisis at the border - and they don't care

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Tucker Carlson: Our lawmakers have allowed the crisis at the border – and they don’t care

[ad_1] Donald Trump ran on the promise that he would secure our southern border when he ran in 2016. He ran on other things, too — trade, ObamaCare and ending the Iran deal. But it was immigration that resonated. No other candidate was saying anything like it. Voters loved it, [...]

03
Apr
Key Republicans Join Democrats in Opposing Trump on Central America

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Key Republicans Join Democrats in Opposing Trump on Central America

[ad_1] Several key Republicans have declared their opposition to President Donald Trump’s order to freeze direct aid to El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, including the ranking Republican on the House Foreign Relations Committee, Rep. Mike McCaul (R-TX). These GOP critics offered the same argument as the Democrats, namely that cutting [...]

02
Apr
Cal Thomas: If not an emergency, what is it?

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Cal Thomas: If not an emergency, what is it?

[ad_1] The flood tide of illegal immigrants crossing our southern border cannot and must not continue. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., has said of it, “The system is broken and overwhelmed. It is a national emergency.” The definition of emergency might help focus attention: “A sudden, urgent, usually unexpected occurrence or [...]

02
Apr
Guatemala Intel Head Says Caravans 'Well-Planned,' Not Spontaneous

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Luis Gutierrez: ‘There Should Be Welcoming Centers All Across America’ for Migrants

[ad_1] Former Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) over the weekend called on mayors of major U.S. cities to open “welcoming centers” for caravan migrants. Appearing on CNN, Gutierrez, who is now a senior policy adviser for the National Partnership of New Americans (NPNA), urged Democrats leading major U.S. cities like Chicago and [...]

01
Apr
America would run out of avocados in weeks if Trump shuts border with Mexico, grower warns

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America would run out of avocados in weeks if Trump shuts border with Mexico, grower warns

[ad_1] If President Trump follows through with his threat to close the Southern Border with Mexico this week, say goodbye to your avocado toast. A top distributor and grower of avocados has warned that the U.S. would run out of the fruit in three weeks if imports from Mexico are [...]

01
Apr
DHS Secretary Nielsen: Tackling the border emergency at the source

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DHS Secretary Nielsen: Tackling the border emergency at the source

[ad_1] The situation at our southern border has gone from a crisis to near system-wide meltdown. As the president has declared – this is a national emergency. Late last year, we were apprehending 50,000 – 60,000 migrants a month at the southern border. Last month, we apprehended more than 75,000, [...]

01
Apr
Trump done playing 'nice' at the border; Biden has potential 'Creepy Uncle Joe' problem

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Trump done playing ‘nice’ at the border; Biden has potential ‘Creepy Uncle Joe’ problem

President Donald Trump holds a campaign rally at Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Mich., on Thursday, March 28, 2019. (Cory Morse/MLive.com/The Grand Rapids Press via AP)<br> Welcome to Fox News First. Not signed up yet? Click here. Developing now, Monday, April 1, 2019 TRUMP: NO MORE PLAYING ‘NICE’ AT [...]

01
Apr
Mexico Promises to Deport 500 Caravan Migrants Who Rushed the U.S. Border

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Migrants, Democrats Are Shutting Down the Border

[ad_1] Central American migrants are shutting down the U.S.-Mexico border because border officers are forced to process the migrants instead of transport trucks, White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney told ABC news on Sunday. Mulvaney said: Why are we talking about closing the border? Because not for spite [...]

31
Mar
Trump moves to cut aid to Central America, amid caravans and flood of refugees

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Trump moves to cut aid to Central America, amid caravans and flood of refugees

[ad_1] Making good on a longstanding threat, President Trump moved this weekend to cut direct aid to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, whose citizens are fleeing north and overwhelming U.S. resources — including as part of organized caravans that the White House has warned may eventually lead to the closure of [...]

31
Mar

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Caravan of 40 Salvadoran migrants sets out for US border

[ad_1] SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador – The “mother of all caravans” expected to depart from Central America looks more like the baby of all caravans. A group of about 40 migrants was leaving Saturday for the U.S. from the capital of El Salvador. It was not immediately clear whether they [...]

30
Mar

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Mexico braces for new caravan of Central American migrants

[ad_1] MEXICO CITY – Mexico is bracing for the possible arrival of the “mother of all caravans,” even as doubts arise over whether the group of Central American migrants will be all that big. Interior Secretary Olga Sanchez Cordero has said a caravan of migrants from El Salvador, Honduras and [...]

28
Mar
Border hits ‘breaking point’ in El Paso, CBP commissioner says

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Border hits ‘breaking point’ in El Paso, CBP commissioner says

Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan, center, announced that the Trump administration will temporarily reassign several hundred border inspectors during a news conference at the border in El Paso, Texas on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio) The nation’s top border security official said Wednesday that the border is at its [...]

28
Mar

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Mexico to set up CentAm migrant ‘containment’ belt in south

[ad_1] MEXICO CITY – Faced with an increasing flow of Central American migrants north, Mexico plans to set up a “containment” belt of federal forces across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, which is the narrowest part of the country’s south and the easiest to control, a senior government official said Wednesday. [...]

27
Mar
Central American-Caribbean Caravan of 2500 Heads to U.S. Border

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Central American-Caribbean Caravan of 2500 Heads to U.S. Border

[ad_1] A newly formed migrant caravan of more than 2,500 departed the southern Mexican border in Chiapas Saturday and is now traveling north for the U.S. The group formed in Tapachula, Chiapas, over several weeks and is labeled the first Central American-Caribbean caravan since it includes a large number of [...]

26
Mar
New face on Texas most-wanted list: MS-13 member with MS-13 tattooed on his face

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New face on Texas most-wanted list: MS-13 member with MS-13 tattooed on his face

What is MS-13? MS-13 is associated with a spate of brutal and violent killings. How did the gang originate, and how widespread are its members? You don’t have to be an expert in gang tattoos to spot the latest addition to Texas’ 10 most wanted fugitives list. Authorities in “The [...]

26
Mar
Residents in world’s most violent city are buying stolen US-Mexico border wire for protection, report says

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Residents in world’s most violent city are buying stolen US-Mexico border wire for protection, report says

U.S. Customs and Border Protection Special Response Team officers are seen through concertina wire after the San Ysidro Port of Entry land border crossing was temporarily closed to traffic in Tijuana, Mexico in November. Steel razor wire installed by American troops and Border Patrol officials to deter migrants from crossing [...]

22
Mar
DHS Opposes GOP's Stealth Bill to Outsource College Graduate Jobs

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‘Visa Mill’ May Close After Getting Work Permits for Foreign Grads

A review board in Virginia has begun the process of shutting down a suspected “visa-mill” college that placed thousands of low-wage foreign graduates into Americans’ white-collar jobs. Colleges are allowed to get work permits to an unlimited number of fee-paying foreign students and graduates via the federal Optional Practical Training [...]

21
Mar
MS-13 members accused of stabbing 16-year-old 100 times, setting body on fire

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MS-13 members accused of stabbing 16-year-old 100 times, setting body on fire

Mugshots for MS-13 gang members charged with murder this week: Jose Hernandez-Garcia, Christian Martinez-Ramirez, Jose Ordonez-Zometa, Kevin Rodriquez-Flores, Jonathan Castillo-Rivera. (Prince Georges County Police Department) Maryland police say five MS-13 gang members stabbed one of their own 100 times and drove the body to Virginia where they set it on [...]

16
Mar
Trump Raises Voters' Wages with Tight Labor Market

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Trump Raises Voters’ Wages with Tight Labor Market

[ad_1] Goldman Sachs says blue-collar and middle-class wages jumped by four percent in the last 12 months — after discounting inflation — and are likely to keep growing in President Donald Trump’s “Hire American” economy. Trump’s low immigration “tight labor market” policy played a key role, the report acknowledged: “Even [...]

14
Mar
Wells Fargo CEO Grilled for Outsourcing American Jobs to India

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Wells Fargo CEO Grilled for Outsourcing American Jobs to India

[ad_1] Wells Fargo CEO Tim Sloan was grilled during a congressional hearing this week for the multinational corporation’s outsourcing scheme that has left thousands of Americans out of work. Last year, Wells Fargo executives announced that about 26,500 employees at the company would be laid off after years of the [...]

13
Mar

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Mexican top cop: security is deficient throughout country

[ad_1] MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s top security official says that “security is deficient in almost the whole country,” after a large group of migrants went missing in northern Mexico. Public Safety Secretary Alfonso Durazo says the number of men pulled off a bus last week in the border state of [...]

12
Mar
2,287 Migrants in Quarantine for Communicable Disease Outbreaks

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2,287 Migrants in Quarantine for Communicable Disease Outbreaks

[ad_1] The thousands of migrants amassed at the U.S. southern border with Mexico present countless challenges to the federal agencies tasked to process them, including dealing with those who are sick with highly contagious diseases. Reuters reported that as of March 6, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reports that some [...]

12
Mar

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Senators seek briefing on journalist, activist surveillance
March 11, 2019

WASHINGTON – Top lawmakers on the Senate Finance Committee are requesting an unclassified briefing on a database kept by Customs and Border Protection that tracked journalists and others in a large migrant caravan last fall. The committee’s chairman, Republican Chuck Grassley of Iowa, and its ranking Democrat, Ron Wyden of [...]

Trump to request $8.6B in wall funding in 'tough' budget request, setting up congressional showdown

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Trump to request $8.6B in wall funding in ‘tough’ budget request, setting up congressional showdown

[ad_1] President Trump will soon formally seek a total of $8.6 billion for border wall funding from Congress as part of the White House’s upcoming budget proposal for the next fiscal year, sources tell Fox News, although the aggressive request faces all-but-certain rejection in Congress amid a growing crisis at [...]

10
Mar
9th Circuit rules asylum applicant has right to go before judge, setting up Supreme Court showdown

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9th Circuit rules asylum applicant has right to go before judge, setting up Supreme Court showdown

[ad_1] In a major break from another key appellate court, the San Francisco-based 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday ruled that a Sri Lankan man who failed his initial asylum screening has the constitutional right to go before a judge — threatening to further clog the immigration court system with [...]

07
Mar
1 Million Migrants Flooding into U.S. Is a Crisis

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1 Million Migrants Flooding into U.S. Is a Crisis

[ad_1] Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told Sean Hannity on Fox News that the United States is being “flooded” with people coming across the U.S. border with Mexico, and it is indeed a “crisis.” “If this is not a crisis, what the hell would be?” Graham said in the interview, which [...]

07
Mar

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Government kept tabs on journalists, ‘instigators’
March 7, 2019

FILE – This Nov. 25, 2018 file photo shows migrants near the Chaparral border crossing watch clashes with U.S. border agents, seen from Tijuana, Mexico. A San Diego TV station says the U.S. government ran an operation to screen journalists, activists and others while investigating last year’s migrant caravan from [...]

Ruling Class Doesn't Want Legal Immigration Questioned

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Ruling Class Doesn’t Want Legal Immigration Questioned

[ad_1] Columnist Michelle Malkin says the “establishment Republican ruling class” does not want American citizens questioning the country’s legal immigration system, wherein more than 1.2 million legal immigrants are admitted every year. A recent study by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) revealed how so-called “highly skilled” foreign graduates taking [...]

04
Mar
Cartel Gunmen Ambush Mexican Border City Police Chief

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Cartel Gunmen Ambush Mexican Border City Police Chief

[ad_1] PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila – A team of cartel gunmen riding in two taxi cabs tried to kill the police chief in this border city. The official was not injured in the attack. The attack took place this week in Piedras Negras near the Eden neighborhood when Police Director Jaime [...]

01
Mar
GOP Senators Push Green Card Reward for Indian Visa Workers

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GOP Senators Push Green Card Reward for Indian Visa Workers

GOP Sen. Kevin Cramer is leading a drive to reward 300,000 Indian visa workers for taking college graduate jobs from at least 200,000 young middle aged or older American graduates. Via Twitter, the North Dakota Senator is pushing the “Fairness for High Skilled Immigrants Act,” which was also championed by former [...]

01
Mar

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Hanoi Postcard: Vietnam tames media invasion but sees upside

[ad_1] prev In this Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019, photo, Peter Wang of Taiwan’s Eastern Broadcasting Company, poses for a photo at the international media center in Hanoi, Vietnam. In welcoming more than 2,600 foreign journalists, Vietnam has a unique opportunity to polish its image and, hopefully, boost tourism and investment. [...]

27
Feb
Guatemala Intel Head Says Caravans 'Well-Planned,' Not Spontaneous

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University of Wisconsin Hosts Event Comparing Migrant Crisis to Nazi Era

[ad_1] The University of Wisconsin-Madison hosted an event on Tuesday suggesting that Central American economic migrants are refugees, just as Jews were refugees “during the Nazi era.” Tuesday’s event, entitled, “The Caravans, The Phenomenon That Changes The Face of Emigration,” attempted to make the argument that migrants trying to enter the [...]

27
Feb
Group of 90 Migrants Cross Border into Texas

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Group of 90 Migrants Cross Border into Texas

[ad_1] Agents assigned to the Eagle Pass Border Patrol Station encountered a large group of migrant families and unaccompanied minors after they illegally crossed the border from Mexico. Del Rio Sector agents patrolling near the small border community of Quemado, Texas, on Monday encountered a group of 90 migrants who [...]

27
Feb
DOJ Fines Virginia Firm for Hiring Foreigners over Qualified Americans

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DOJ Fines Virginia Firm for Hiring Foreigners over Qualified Americans

[ad_1] The Department of Justice (DOJ) is fining a Charlottesville, Virginia, firm hundreds of thousands of dollars for hiring foreign workers on H-1B visas instead of qualified Americans in its latest settlement, thanks to former Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ Protecting U.S. Workers Initiative. The Justice Department announced this week it [...]

26
Feb
Open Borders for Business Hiring

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Open Borders for Business Hiring

[ad_1] The George W. Bush Presidential Center is helping to develop a White House immigration policy, as it is urging the government to help CEOs and investors hire an unlimited number of foreigners in place of white-collar and blue-collar Americans. Employers should be allowed to freely hire foreign graduates for middle-class [...]

26
Feb
Two Arizona men, Mexican woman caught trafficking $4.3M in hard drugs across border, cops say

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Two Arizona men, Mexican woman caught trafficking $4.3M in hard drugs across border, cops say

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers found this haul of hard drugs in a Jeep SUV as part of three separate incidents at the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection) U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers detained two Arizona men and a Mexican woman for allegedly trafficking [...]

26
Feb
Trump's 'Hire American' Policy Slows Outsourcing of U.S. Tech Jobs

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Trump’s ‘Hire American’ Policy Slows Outsourcing of U.S. Tech Jobs

[ad_1] President Donald Trump’s “Hire American” policy initiative is making it harder for outsourcing firms like Infosys, Capgemini, and Cognizant to readily layoff American workers and give their jobs to imported foreign workers. Every year, more than 100,000 foreign workers are brought to the U.S. on the H-1B visa and are [...]

25
Feb
CBP seizes more than $19M of cocaine found inside a pineapple shipment: officials

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CBP seizes more than $19M of cocaine found inside a pineapple shipment: officials

[ad_1] Customs and Border Protection announced Friday that cocaine valued at more than $19 million was seized after being discovered inside a shipment of pineapples. (Customs and Border Protection) Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced Friday that cocaine valued at more than $19 million was seized after being discovered inside [...]

23
Feb
CBP seizes more than $19M of cocaine found inside a pineapple shipment: officials

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CBP seizes more than $19M of cocaine found inside a pineapple shipment: officials

Customs and Border Protection announced Friday that cocaine valued at more than $19 million was seized after being discovered inside a shipment of pineapples. (Customs and Border Protection) Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced Friday that cocaine valued at more than $19 million was seized after being discovered inside a [...]

23
Feb
Armed Human Smuggler Arrested near Migrant Caravan Group

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Armed Human Smuggler Arrested near Migrant Caravan Group

[ad_1] Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents arrested an armed human smuggler with a group of Mexican migrants not far from another group of caravan migrants. It appears the smuggler attempted to use the Central American migrants as a diversion in order to bring across the Mexican nationals. Yuma Sector Communications [...]

23
Feb
Venezuelan troops abandon posts amid violent clashes with protesters at Colombian border

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Venezuelan troops abandon posts amid violent clashes with protesters at Colombian border

[ad_1] Demonstrators run away from a cloud of tear gas during clashes with the Bolivarian National Guard in Urena, Venezuela, near the border with Colombia, on Saturday (AP Photo/Fernando Llano) At least four Venezuelan troops have abandoned their posts at the country’s border with Colombia as confrontations with protesters over incoming [...]

23
Feb
More troops being dispatched to the southern border

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More troops being dispatched to the southern border

[ad_1] The Pentagon will deploy 1,000 more troops to the southern border next week, a senior U.S. defense official said Friday afternoon. The additional forces will bring the total to nearly 6,000 active-duty and National Guard personnel deployed in support of the Department of Homeland Security at the border with [...]

22
Feb
More troops being dispatched to the southern border

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More troops being dispatched to the southern border

The Pentagon will deploy 1,000 more troops to the southern border next week, a senior U.S. defense official said Friday afternoon. The additional forces will bring the total to nearly 6,000 active-duty and National Guard personnel deployed in support of the Department of Homeland Security at the border with Mexico, [...]

22
Feb

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Border agents install razor wire at El Paso bridges
February 22, 2019

In this Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019 photo, migrants from Central America, Africa and the Caribbean, who are awaiting their turns to request asylum in the U.S., pass the time inside a shelter in Bachilleres gymnasium in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Hundreds of migrants, some of whom arrived from the recently closed [...]

Honduran woman detained at border says she was held for ransom by human smugglers: report

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Honduran woman detained at border says she was held for ransom by human smugglers: report

A Border Patrol agent overlooks Mexico from Eagle Pass, Texas. A Honduran woman detained while trying to cross into the U.S. illegally claims she was kidnapped and held for ransom by human smugglers in Mexico. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection ) A Honduran woman detained while crossing into the United States [...]

22
Feb
Fox News Poll: Half of voters favor military action against North Korea

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Fox News Poll: Half of voters favor military action against North Korea

[ad_1] Just over half of voters perceive North Korea as a “major” threat to U.S. national security, and about the same number support taking military action to stop the country’s nuclear weapons program. In addition, more approve than disapprove of how President Trump is handling North Korea, according to the [...]

21
Feb

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Immigration Authorities in Southern Mexico Attacked by Migrant Caravan
February 21, 2019

Mexican immigration authorities were attacked by members of a new Central American caravan which illegally crossed from Guatemala on Monday. The group of at least 500 pelted officials with rocks, causing damage to vehicles and minor injuries at a roadblock. Mexican immigration officials (INAMI) in Chiapas attempted to turn back [...]

Jared Kushner Asks Business for Immigration Plan

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Jared Kushner Asks Business for Immigration Plan

[ad_1] Jared Kushner is working with business groups to develop a pro-business immigration policy for approval by President Donald Trump in coming months, according to the McClatchy news service. The news service reports: President Donald Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law is operating on at least two tracks — the first is working with a small [...]

21
Feb
Mexico announces plans to close shelter housing 1,600 migrants: Will they go to Texas?

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25 MS-13 gang members deported from migrant caravan in Mexico, officials say

[ad_1] At least 25 gang members affiliated with the MS-13 gang were deported from Mexico after they were revealed to be concealed within the caravan of 1,600 Central American migrants just across the U.S. border, immigration officials said Tuesday. The caravan first arrived in Piedras Negras, Mexico, two weeks ago [...]

19
Feb
Rush Limbaugh: Spending bill was effort by some Republicans to sabotage Trump

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Rush Limbaugh: Spending bill was effort by some Republicans to sabotage Trump

[ad_1] Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh, speaking to “Fox News Sunday,” charged that the compromise spending bill recently signed by President Trump to avert another partial government shutdown was little more than a disguised effort by some Republicans to torpedo his 2020 presidential candidacy. “Both parties have people that [...]

17
Feb

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Mexican Authorities Find Execution Victim Behind Migrant Shelter near Border

[ad_1] PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila – Authorities in this border city are investigating the execution of a local man after finding his body just behind a shelter where more than 1700 caravan migrants are housed. The half-buried victim is not a migrant and had been there for several weeks before authorities found [...]

16
Feb
17 Migrants Rescued from Texas Border River by Border Patrol

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17 Migrants Rescued from Texas Border River by Border Patrol

[ad_1] Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents rescued 17 migrants from drowning in the Rio Grande River in three incidents on Thursday. Agents assigned to the Eagle Pass Station heard cries for help from the direction of the Rio Grande River that separates Mexico from the U.S. on Wednesday morning [...]

16
Feb
Migrants brave the Rio Grande, looking toward Eagle Pass, Texas

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Migrants brave the Rio Grande, looking toward Eagle Pass, Texas

[ad_1] Having traveled more than a thousand miles, the immigrants in Piedras Negras, Mexico  — mostly from Honduras — come to this: the banks of the Rio Grande River. Just beyond is  Eagle Pass, Texas, and the broader U.S. It looks deceptively simple, as if you might simply swim across. Perhaps that — [...]

15
Feb
Migrants brave the Rio Grande, looking toward Eagle Pass, Texas

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Migrants brave the Rio Grande, looking toward Eagle Pass, Texas

Having traveled more than a thousand miles, the immigrants in Piedras Negras, Mexico  — mostly from Honduras — come to this: the banks of the Rio Grande River. Just beyond is  Eagle Pass, Texas, and the broader U.S. It looks deceptively simple, as if you might simply swim across. Perhaps [...]

15
Feb
Guatemala Intel Head Says Caravans 'Well-Planned,' Not Spontaneous

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Guatemala Intel Head Says Caravans ‘Well-Planned,’ Not Spontaneous

[ad_1] Guatemalan head of intelligence Mario Duarte said during a visit to Washington Tuesday that the migrant caravans heading to the U.S. southern border are “well-planned” and “well-organized” by those wanting to “weaponize those in need.” “This was not a spontaneous event. It was well-planned. It was well-organized,” Duarte, head [...]

13
Feb
MSNBC's Donny Deutsch: History Will Frown on GOP for Backing 'Slimeball' Trump

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MSNBC's Donny Deutsch: History Will Frown on GOP for Backing 'Slimeball' Trump

[ad_1] Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline,” network contributor Donny Deutsch predicted history would “frown” on Republicans for supporting President Donald Trump. Deutsch said, “History will really frown on the Republicans. You just gave one instance. How about sending troops down when there’s no caravan coming. Sending American troops down literally like [...]

13
Feb
GOP Rep. Kinzinger deploys to border with Air National Guard unit

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GOP Rep. Kinzinger deploys to border with Air National Guard unit

[ad_1] Rep. Adam Kinzinger was deployed to the U.S.-Mexico border with his Air National Guard unit, according to his spokeswoman. (Rep. Adam Kinzinger) Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., has been deployed to the U.S.-Mexico border with his Air National Guard unit and is on active duty as a lieutenant colonel, his [...]

13
Feb
El Paso Sector Border Patrol sees jump in apprehensions as large migrant groups cross into US

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El Paso Sector Border Patrol sees jump in apprehensions as large migrant groups cross into US

ANTELOPE WELLS, N.M. – ANTELOPE WELLS, N.M. — Since October 2018, more than 5,000 illegal immigrants have been caught crossing the border in the El Paso Sector. And they came in bunches — with 28 groups of more than 100 people crossing the El Paso Sector in that time.  The [...]

13
Feb
Fox News Poll: Most voters favor immigration deal

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Fox News Poll: Most voters favor immigration deal

[ad_1] A sizable majority of voters favors a broad immigration deal that includes a border barrier, non-barrier security measures, and humanitarian aid.  At the same time, support for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border stands its highest since 2015. The number favoring the wall inched up for the second time [...]

13
Feb
Border agents overwhelmed as Texas begins processing migrant caravan

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Border agents overwhelmed as Texas begins processing migrant caravan

EAGLE PASS, Texas – Even before the migrant caravan arrived last week, this area, like many along the southern border, was busy. But then 1,800 people arrived, mostly Honduran, across the river in Piedras Negras, Mexico and a normally hectic day became impossible to manage. Fox News recently visited this [...]

13
Feb