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

Cruz Points Out Fact of Weak U.S. Labor Market: CNN Takes Umbrage

By Eric Ruark

CNN’s self-proclaimed Reality Check Team took several statements made by candidates in the Republican Presidential Primary debate on February 13 and declared them either “true” or “false,” with varying degrees of in-between. Tami Luhby, a CNNMoney correspondent took up Ted Cruz’s claim that the United States has “the lowest percentage of Americans working today in … Continued

‘Path to Citizenship’ would be Path to More Deficits, Chain Migration, Unemployment & Illegal Immigration

By Roy Beck

Very slowly, more and more Members of Congress are starting to look at the practical consequences of the Senate Gang of Eight’s broad proposals for a “path to citizenship” for some 11 million illegal aliens.  Elected officials have to be forced to consider that a better phrase would be that they are being asked to provide the … Continued

What a difference 7 million jobs would make

By Jeremy Beck

CBS News recently reported some devastating statistics for Black Americans who are living with depression-era unemployment rates, including this: “34 percent of New York’s young black men age 19 to 24 are not working.” The Department of Labor confirms that Blacks continue to be disadvantaged by the recession and jobless recovery, but they are not … Continued

Young American College Grads Need Break From Immigration Competition (keep only the truly extraordinary)

By Roy Beck

A new Brookings report brags about all the college graduates that our immigration policy is adding into the U.S. worker pool, but the latest unemployment statistics show nothing but bad news for our own American college graduates. At the end of the first quarter, this was the percentage of young adult American college grads (age … Continued