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Columnist Michelle Malkin charges that the “establishment Republican ruling class” doesn’t want citizens to question the present flow of legal immigration, now at the highest sustained level in our history. They want cheap labor, with little concern, says Malkin, for the negative effects of this policy on American workers. 

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wants his state legislature to outlaw sanctuary cities for illegal aliens. He also called for sheriffs in the state to sign up for the 287(g) program, which would allow them to cooperate with federal immigration law enforcement. 
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The Association for Advancing Automation reports that U.S. companies installed a record number of robots in 2018. In the Food and consumer goods industry, installation of robots increased 60 percent from 2017 to 2018. Studies predict that a third or more jobs now done by humans will be done by robots and computers within the next 15 years. Nevertheless, mass immigration advocate keep claiming that the nation faces a “labor shortage.”

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More Misinformation from the Media “Kansas Republicans appear to have thumbed their noses at the party establishment on Tuesday in the primary for governor, failing to persuasively back the sitting governor, Jeff Colyer, and instead leaving room to elect Kris Kobach, the state’s secretary of state — and quite possibly the most pernicious public official …

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The House passed H.J 46, a resolution to end the emergency that President Trump declared in order to build walls and fencing on the Mexican border. The measure passed with 245 in favor and 182 against. That tally falls short of the two-thirds margin necessary to override a presidential veto. Thirteen Republican House members voted for the resolution.

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The U.S. House of Representatives votes today on a resolution to end President Trump’s declaration of emergency for building a wall on the Mexican border. The Democrat-majority House is likely to pass the measure. It may also receive a majority vote in the Republican-majority Senate. Nevertheless, there are probably not enough votes in both chambers to override a presidential veto of the measure. 

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Immigrants educated in their home countries, even at the college and post college levels are less skilled than Americans with similar education. A study by the Center for Immigration Studies found that “On both literacy and computer operations, foreign-educated immigrants with a college or advanced degree perform so poorly that they score at the level of natives who have only a high school diploma. On numeracy, foreign-educated immigrants with a college or advanced degree perform closer to the level of natives who have some college education, but not a bachelor’s.”

The Study notes, in light of these findings, that “Policy-makers should therefore be cautious in treating foreign degrees as evidence of ‘high-skill’ immigration.”

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McClatchy  news reports that Jared Kushner is holding private meetings with business groups seeking cheap labor. Kushner is President Donald Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law. The meetings suggest that the Trump Administration is moving away from its previous commitment to protect American workers by restricting immigration.   
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