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Rusty Remedies and Sour Solutions  

by Karen Shragg Dedicated to the living memory of the ever-wise Dr. Al Bartlett, physics professor University of Colorado Boulder. Math is exactly what the late great physics professor Al Bartlett tried to warn us about. From a laundry list of things he could have chosen, including our propensity for war, he said that the … Continued

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Vance amplifies immigration-housing cost link

"If you allow 20 million people to compete with American citizens for the cost of homes, you are going to have a large and, frankly, completely preventable spike in the demand for housing. And that is what we, of course, have seen. Because while we made it a little bit hard to build homes in this country over the last four years, we've also, unfortunately, made it way too easy for people to compete against American citizens for the precious homes that are in our country to begin with."

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H-1B, “one of the best con jobs,” chugs along as Americans lose jobs

In his tour-de-force article for Compact Magazine, H-1B watchdog Professor Norman Matloff rips the cover story off of the sorded H-1B narrative history, stating plainly: "The H-1B program was deliberately set up to hire younger, cheaper foreign workers in lieu of older, more expensive Americans."

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Illegal population grew by at least 50 percent. What is Congress prepared to do?

The final reckoning of the Biden Administration's immigration and enforcement policies has yet to come, but the 2021-2025 era was clearly historic. Biden's border crisis is over, but the fallout will be with us for years.

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Lower wages: a feature of immigration, not a bug (March 2025 edition)

National Public Radio's annotated "fact check" of Trump's address to Congress last week included this gem: "Increased immigration -- both legal and illegal -- has helped to grow the labor force in recent years. It has allowed employers to keep adding jobs at a rapid clip without putting much upward pressure on prices".

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Deportations are necessary but not sufficient

At the current rate of deportations, the government would need two dozen years to clear the 2021-2025 border crisis. The best way to boost enforcement is to take away people's ability to work illegally.

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The border crisis is over (for now)

In January this year, monthly border encounters fell below one hundred thousand for the first time since January, 2021 (exactly four years ago).

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E-Verify: the ultimate force multiplier

In his article for UnHeard, “The progressive case for Trump’s deportations,” Juan David Rojas says Democrats should follow the advice of the late Democratic icon Barbara Jordan, who said “For the [immigration] system to be credible, people actually have to be deported at the end of the process”.  But Rojas also offers another approach that is necessary … Continued

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287(g) – a force multiplier

The 287(g) program allows state and local police to identify illegal aliens during the course of their daily duties. 287(g) gets its name from Section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act that designates that authority. Congress added Section 287(g) as part of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act in 1996. The program was mostly unused until … Continued

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