“Worker Shortage” or Employer Preference?
By Jeremy Beck
There is a long history of legislation siding with employers’ preferences for foreign labor over Black Americans. We have the receipts.
By Jeremy Beck
There is a long history of legislation siding with employers’ preferences for foreign labor over Black Americans. We have the receipts.
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
By Jared Culver
The New York Times has another report on the ongoing child labor crisis being fed by the human trafficking calamity at the border. This one focuses on children working at dangerous slaughterhouses. It includes the story of Marcos, a young man brutally injured while working at a poultry plant. Readers will know that the poultry … Continued
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine is tweeting openly about how important it is to hire foreign workers to take Ohio jobs. He’s doing so while hailing a think tank’s report pitching state-based visa programs. This report, from The Buckeye Institute, is 42 pages long, but in reading it you won’t find any mentions of labor exploitation … Continued
Kia is attempting to get a class action lawsuit tossed that alleges visa fraud and exploitation of workers in the little-known TN visa category. The accusations tell a common story in a rarely discussed visa category that was first created in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). When President Trump renegotiated that agreement, his … Continued
By Jeremy Beck
The New York Times‘ rundown of the disintegrating border situation: —- The Looming Expiration of Title 42 A Big Policy Change: For the past three years, the United States has relied on Title 42 to swiftly expel migrants at the southern border. Here’s what the end of the pandemic-era rule means. A Major Uptick: Data … Continued
The CEO and COO of Regal Hospitality Solutions, LLC, Sargis Makaryan and Samvel Nikoghosyan respectively, pleaded guilty to one count out of 36 charges in a visa fraud and illegal worker scheme. The case stems from a 2021 indictment that already led to two guilty pleas. The Department of Justice (DOJ) called this a large-scale … Continued
By Andrew Good
Amid border happenings, sanctuary policies outrages, and declarations that New York City is “full” of migrants, the underlying truth about the immigration battle is that it is fundamentally between those with an insatiable appetite for more foreign workers, and those who embrace the social good of tight labor markets. The economic question has the deepest … Continued
By Jeremy Beck
The New York Times offers another example of how – despite protests to the contrary – lower wages is the desired outcome of immigration-expansionist policy: Border by the numbers Agents are processing and releasing so many illegal migrants so quickly that they are missing cases of human trafficking, writes Jessical Vaughan. The United States has … Continued