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Date March 24, 2025

Visa Lottery

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Date March 24, 2025

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Date March 21, 2025

Immigration still No. 1; Trump gets a new app

The problem for the Democratic Party, in Leonhardt's view, is that while corporations often push for higher immigration in order to lower wages, immigration expansionist advocates take a moralistic view that's devoid of nuance: "The advocates' position, in essence, was: More is good, and less is racist. Voters disagreed, and they rebelled."

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Date March 21, 2025

Immigration and the addiction to cheap labor

Vice President J.D. Vance told a gathering of leaders from the tech industry this week that the Trump administration was fundamentally committed to getting America off of its addiction to cheap foreign labor.

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Date March 20, 2025

Rusty Remedies and Sour Solutions  

by Karen Shragg Dedicated to the living memory of the ever-wise Dr. Al Bartlett, physics professor University of Colorado Boulder. Math is exactly what the late great physics professor Al Bartlett tried to warn us about. From a laundry list of things he could have chosen, including our propensity for war, he said that the … Continued

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Date March 18, 2025

Vance amplifies immigration-housing cost link

"If you allow 20 million people to compete with American citizens for the cost of homes, you are going to have a large and, frankly, completely preventable spike in the demand for housing. And that is what we, of course, have seen. Because while we made it a little bit hard to build homes in this country over the last four years, we've also, unfortunately, made it way too easy for people to compete against American citizens for the precious homes that are in our country to begin with."

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Date March 14, 2025

H-1B, “one of the best con jobs,” chugs along as Americans lose jobs

In his tour-de-force article for Compact Magazine, H-1B watchdog Professor Norman Matloff rips the cover story off of the sorded H-1B narrative history, stating plainly: "The H-1B program was deliberately set up to hire younger, cheaper foreign workers in lieu of older, more expensive Americans."

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Date March 13, 2025

Illegal population grew by at least 50 percent. What is Congress prepared to do?

The final reckoning of the Biden Administration's immigration and enforcement policies has yet to come, but the 2021-2025 era was clearly historic. Biden's border crisis is over, but the fallout will be with us for years.

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Date March 12, 2025

Lower wages: a feature of immigration, not a bug (March 2025 edition)

National Public Radio's annotated "fact check" of Trump's address to Congress last week included this gem: "Increased immigration -- both legal and illegal -- has helped to grow the labor force in recent years. It has allowed employers to keep adding jobs at a rapid clip without putting much upward pressure on prices".

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