Once again, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi planned a vote on the Democrats’ $1.75 trillion budget reconciliation amnesty bill on Friday only to rescind the vote hours later. However, the threat of Congress passing what could become the largest illegal alien amnesty in U.S. history is still very much alive. One significant difference from Friday’s rescinded … Continued
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested a vote was imminent on a bill that would grant amnesty to nearly 8 million illegal aliens on Thursday afternoon only to rescind it just a few hours later. Regardless of yesterday’s canceled votes, Congressional Democrats moved closer to passing their sweeping budget reconciliation bill. Most NumbersUSA activists who have … Continued
By Jeremy Beck
Brian Norris and Anita Kumar join the throng of political observers noting the palatable absence of immigration during the 2020 campaign: Immigration dominated the 2016 presidential campaign, but Joe Biden’s promise during the second debate to “within a hundred days … send to the United States Congress a pathway to citizenship for over 11 million … Continued
By Admins
When the Exchange Visitor Program was created in 1961, it was designed to “increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries by means of educational and cultural exchange.” Participants are allowed to work so, for many years, the program enabled young adults to serve as au pairs, … Continued
By Eric Ruark
“Our growers tell us that workers tell them they would rather continue living in the shadows than convert to H-2C. So we can’t support a bill that would cause us to lose our workforce… We will work hard to make sure there is no vote until we get a new Congress. We don’t know which … Continued
Unfortunately, the legislation being considered by Congress in response to concerns about overly-long prison sentences for Americans has been crafted to primarily benefit criminal aliens. (Those are not Americans but citizens of other countries who have been imprisoned for committing serious crimes in the U.S.) That’s the conclusion of our legislative affairs team after several … Continued
By Eric Ruark
A March 7 story from Bloomberg Businessweek reported on a new poll that surveyed Americans on immigration. The Bloomberg lede was that 61 percent of Americans believe that “continued immigration into the country jeopardizes the United States.” The full survey, commissioned by “global management consulting firm” A.T. Kearney and a market research company The NPD Group, … Continued
One of the top headlines on the front page of this morning’s New York Times reads “Foreign Labor Fills Vacancies at Trump Club.” The story details the Mar-a-Lago resort’s preference for hiring foreign workers through the H-2B visa program over hundreds of American workers who were referred to the club for jobs. It’s interesting to … Continued
There are few areas where Democratic Presidential Hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders differ on immigration, but Thursday night’s debate put two of them on display. Both Clinton and Sanders embraced lifetime work permits for 11 million illegal aliens and a massive expansion of legal immigration through their united support of “comprehensive immigration reform.” But … Continued
