Immigration News

The Optional Practical Training (OPT) program encourages U.S. companies to hire foreign students who graduate from U.S. colleges, by giving them work permits which extend for as long as three years. Companies don't have to interview Americans before hiring OPT applicants, and they receive a tax break for participating in the program. Its use has significantly increased in recent years. Last year it had 329,158 foreign job seekers participating, up from 91,140 in 2016. Mark Krikorian, director of the Center for Immigration Studies, expressed strong criticism of OPT, saying that "The government is enticing employers to hire foreigners instead of Americans . . . it is ridiculous. Even the middle-class Americans who have downplayed the impact of cheap-labor immigration on blue-collar Americans should be alarmed by the government’s discrimination against their own college-graduate children."

In the summer of 1978 60 percent of U.S. teenagers were either employed or seeking employment. Last summer the percentage was 35 percent. One reason for the decline is immigration. A study by the Federal Reserve's board of governors stated that "the increase in population of less educated immigrants has had a considerably more negative effect on employment outcomes of for native youth than for natives adults." Studies have shown that teen employment greatly contributes to successful adult employment.

Douglas Murray, in an opinion piece in Sunday's Wall Street Journal, looks at the suicidal open borders policies of European elites.  Some excerpts: Why did...

The European Union is trying to force three member states in Eastern Europe, Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic, to accept quotas of migrants, many them Muslims from the Middle East and Africa. The countries say they will not comply with this demand, even if they face EU sanctions. Victor Orban, the prime minister of Hungary, stated that "We will not give in to black mail from Brussels. We reject the relocation quota."

German Development Minister Gerd Muller warned Sunday that up to 100 million Africans could head north as economic and climate refugees.  The German government's answer to...

Department of Labor Alexander Acosta has promised a a crackdown on fraud in the H programs for visas. These include H-1B (skilled visas), H-2A (farm workers), and H-2B (non-farm, non-skilled workers). In a press release he stated, "We will enforce vigorously those laws, including heightened use of criminal referrals."

Thomas D. Homan, acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), said anyone in the country without authorization can be arrested and those who...

Homeland Security Secretary John Kelley called on Congress to grant amnesty as permanent legal status to 780,000 illegal aliens in the so-called Dreamer category. Currently they enjoy an amnesty giving them temporary renewable legal status.

During the presidential campaign President Trump promised to end the DACA amnesty for illegal aliens who accompanied their parents to the U.S. He rightly pointed out that this measure was unconstitutional as it came about through presidential decree under President Obama rather than the proper channel of congressional legislation. But President Trump as allowed the program to continue--and to keep accepting new applicants.

Illegal immigration across the southwest border appears to have jumped 27% in May, according to numbers released this week by the Department of Homeland...