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Category: Economic Challenges

Treat Essential Workers Better

By Roy Beck

Most of the people celebrated as “essential workers” during the pandemic were part of the working classes whose interests had been ignored and devalued for decades by the makers of immigration policies — policies that had steadily depressed their wages and their labor participation rates. And, of course, many of them were immigrants themselves who now found their climb up the economic ladder depressed by each annual legal arrival of a million more permanent competitors, not counting the unauthorized foreign workers.

Stop Taking Black Wealth

By Roy Beck

While government, banking, and societal practices have taken wealth from Black communities before the wealth could grow, federal high-immigration/loose-labor policies have taken wealth from Black communities before it is even earned.

Border Policy, Housing, Water, and Farms

By Jeremy Beck

Given immigration’s recent and projected contributions to U.S. population growth, immigration policy is an important factor that drives up housing prices and rents. According to a study published by the Urban Institute’s Housing Matters Initiative, immigration causes a significant increase in home prices and rents in the metropolitan areas where migrants settle, and an even … Continued

Investigation Gives More Examples of Indentured Servitude in Nursing

By Jared Culver

While nurses are overworked and underpaid, the elite remain baffled as to why there is a labor shortage in the profession. The largest strike in the recorded history of the healthcare industry occurred last year. We covered the lawsuit of a foreign nurse alleging indentured servitude before but, now there is a new report on … Continued

New Regulations Demonstrate H2 Visas Need Real Reform

By Chris Chmielenski

Both the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and the Wage and Hour Division (WHD) have noticed new regulations designed to protect foreign workers from the explosion of exploitation within the labor market. While the attempts to stop the exploitation should be applauded, the new regulations are properly understood as mere Band-Aids on deep … Continued

Fareed Zakaria Proves Late is Better Than Never

By Chris Chmielenski

Fareed Zakaria, one of the scions of DC punditry, has finally faced the facts that current Biden policies on immigration are completely wrong. More remarkably, he has taken that indubitable reality to its logical conclusion–Zakaria calls for closing the border to asylum applicants while the system attempts to absorb the millions already in the pipeline: … Continued

The Legal/Illegal Distinction is One Without a Difference

By Jared Culver

When it comes to debates over immigration, one of the common errors is distinguishing between aliens who enter legally as opposed to illegally. Often, we are told that legal immigration is beneficial, but illegal immigration is harmful. A recent Washington Times article highlights an extreme example of this by calling for admission of a million … Continued

Mass immigration threatens all versions of the American Dream

By Christy Shaw

What is, and where is, the American Dream for you? A dream of a better, richer, and happier life for all our citizens of every rank.” John Truslow Adams (JStorDaily.com, 2015) Is it Rural? Urban? Suburban? I offer that it doesn’t matter. “Better, richer, and happier” can happen in all three so long as we … Continued

CHIPS Act Uses Taxpayer Money to Hire Foreign Workers

By Chris Chmielenski

The CHIPS Act was hailed as bringing the vitally important semiconductor industry to the United States.