Industries Crying About Labor Shortages Keep Getting Busted Suppressing Wages

By Jared Culver

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: The United States is suffering through a labor shortage. Our nation’s captains of industry simply cannot find Americans with the grit and determination necessary to complete an honest day’s work. Because of this alleged deficiency in the American workforce, our government must open the floodgates and import … Continued

Department of Labor Details Surge in Child Labor

By Jared Culver

After The New York Times documented extensive child labor trafficking and exposed that Biden Administration officials both knew about it and tried to cover it up, the Department of Labor (DOL) started a task force to clean up the mess they made. The DOL has now released an update on their work one day after … Continued

Couple Indicted for Forced Labor as Slavery Crisis Continues

By Chris Chmielenski

Harmanpreet Singh, 30, and Kulbir Kaur, 42, were indicted for conspiracy to commit forced labor, forced labor, alien harboring for financial gain, and document servitude. The acts were in connection with their gas station and convenience store where, from March 2018 to May 2021, they allegedly forced Singh’s cousin to work. The indictment has all … Continued

Mauritson Farms Settles for $328,000 in Lost Wages to H-2A Workers

By Chris Chmielenski

Mauritson Farms, a winery, settled with the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board (ALRB) and 21 alien farmworkers for retaliation. The aliens had the audacity to complain to their boss about unfair wages and unsafe working conditions. After working for three years at the winery, the aliens met with Cameron Mauritson, manager at the winery, and … Continued

Scars of Stagnant Wages and Misplaced Priorities

By Jeremy Beck

Immigration By the Numbers: Catch and Release 40% of migrants released by the Biden Administration never checked in; Another 40% never received a “notice to appear” at all; 82% of migrants released have not been entered into the court docket. Of the 18% who have been entered into the court docket, most will wait years … Continued

Media Terrified of…Canada

By Chris Chmielenski

Canada has created a visa program specifically catering to American H-1B visa holders. The program allows H-1B holders in the United States to apply for up to 10,000 Canadian visas to work for any employer that will hire them. The visa only lasts for three years with no extension possible. This small-scale, temporary policy has … Continued

Secretary Mayorkas Oversight Testimony Leaves Out American Workers

By Chris Chmielenski

On Wednesday, July 26th, 2023, Secretary Mayorkas, head of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), testified before the House Judiciary Committee. The 24-page written testimony he submitted for the record says a great deal about his vision for the future of the immigration policy landscape. He wrote about backlogs blocking alien benefit applications, so-called DREAMers … Continued

Court Finds Biden Asylum Rule is “Substantively and Procedurally Invalid”

By Chris Chmielenski

The Biden Administration received another defeat in court, with Judge Jon Tigar of the Northern District of California vacating the latest asylum rule. That asylum rule created an (easily) rebuttable presumption of asylum ineligibility for aliens who did not schedule their illegal entry beforehand using a phone app called CBP One. Along with the mass … Continued

Catch and Release Assembly Line has Consequences

By Chris Chmielenski

The Biden Administration’s latest strategy for dealing with the border catastrophe involves a neat accounting trick: Border apprehensions are made to appear lower by simply paroling many aliens through ports of entry. Because the aliens are not encountered attempting to enter illegally on the border, between ports of entry, they are not counted in the … Continued