Immigration News

Syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin chronicles how the H-1B visa program gives U.S. tech jobs to foreign workers when qualified Americans are available to do the work.

In a settlement with the Department of Justice, a company in Louisiana has to pay more than $100,000 to Americans workers who did not get jobs because the company hired foreigners through a work visa program. The Justice Department stated that the company "failed to consider or improperly rejected U.S. workers who applied for positions as sheet metal workers or laborers, and then sought to fill the vacancies with foreign workers under the H-2B visa program."

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has ended Temporary Protected Status (TPS) granted to Hondurans in the United States. This status allows foreigners to stay in the U.S. if their countries have suffered natural disasters or some other calamity. They are supposed to go home after conditions improve. The Hondurans received TPS in 1999 after a hurricane struck their country. Critics of TPS it is anything but temporary, and point to the fact Honduras recovered from the hurricane quite some time before now.

Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker has called for steps to stop the abuse of our asylum laws by illegal aliens. He observed: "Asylum is only  for those who fear persecution on the basis of their race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group. "But what happened is that word got out that you could game the system.  People found out that you could apply for asylum and then get a work authorization in the United States while you waited for a court date.  That might take years—and you could disappear before that ever happened anyway. "Word got out that you could cross the border illegally, live here as an illegal alien—and then, if you got caught, you could just claim asylum." Read more at justice.gov

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/18/kirsten-gillibrand-on-tearing-down-border-wall-if-it-makes-sense-i-could-support-it/

A report by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) argues against the claim that America must have mass immigration because we face a "labor shortage." The author of report, Jason Richwine, observed: "[W]hen employers complain of a 'shortage,' they really mean a shortage of people willing to work for the (low) wage that employers would like to pay. The percentage of working-age Americans not in the labor force remains significantly below the level from the year 2000, and employers should strive to bring those potential workers back." Read more at cis.org

Democratic lawmakers have maintained that there were no dangerous criminals traveling with migrant caravans. A document from Customs and Border Protection reveals otherwise. It notes that in a caravan of 8,000 migrants that arrived in California, 660  people had U.S. criminal convictions. It said, “Nearly 40 were convicted of assault or aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Three individuals were convicted of murder.” Read more at wnd.com 

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