CATO Institute’s Dan Griswold suggests that the U.S. faces a crisis in filling lower skilled jobs because we aren’t producing as many high school dropouts as in the past. . . . the cohort of U.S. workers who have traditionally filled those jobs, namely high school dropouts, continues to shrink. In the past decade, the number … Continued

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Examples of insanity from just last week that further prove U.S. leaders don’t understand the pain of 10.2% unemployment: INSANITY EXHIBIT A: Sec. of State Hillary Clinton went to the Philippines to promise to bring more of its workers to compete with Americans. The ABC News report shows the story was even crazier than that. … Continued

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Every month, we get more terrible unemployment news. (Now, we hear the official unemployment rate has hit 10.2%!) And every month, I must call on Americans to force the nation’s elite leaders to answer why they insist on importing 125,000 working-age foreign citizens each month. Below is the list of elites working against jobless Americans … Continued

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In a last ditch effort to undermine Arizona’s mandatory E-Verify law for employers, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and a coalition of business and open-border groups have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to determine whether Arizona’s law is preempted by federal law. The case (Chamber of Commerce of the U.S. of Am. v. Candelaria, U.S.) … Continued

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NumbersUSA is mobilizing our 920,000 members to contact their Representatives to urge defeat of the Rule to bring H.R. 3962 to the House floor.  NumbersUSA takes no position on the non-immigration parts of the bill.  But Speaker Pelosi and the Rules Committee have broken the promises that Pres. Obama made that illegal aliens would be … Continued

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The Associated Press has just reported that, after the Hispanic Caucus confronted Pres. Obama at the White House this afternoon, the chair of the House Rules Committee indicated she is giving the Caucus what it wants:  Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) indicated that the House will have to vote on a bill that allows illegal aliens … Continued

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9:30 a.m. — Pres. Obama has scheduled a meeting with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus for this (Thursday) afternoon.  Presumably, the Hispanic Caucus will ask the President to prove himself a liar to the American people. Obama and his spokesmen have made a very clear promise to a joint session of Congress and  in many national … Continued

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A few minutes ago, the White House issued a new report claiming that the Stimulus Bill earlier this year has created or saved approximately 650,000 U.S. jobs. Unfortunately, another government program — immigration — completely wiped out any overall benefit the stimulus jobs could have been for the American working man and woman. All of … Continued

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Karl Kiefer, a true citizen-scholar from Sunbright, Tennessee, examines the H-1B visa program. An official government summary of the H-1B visa is available by clicking here. The main use of the H-1B visa is for employers to bring in foreign workers who hold a college degree. Typical occupations include architects, engineers, computer programmers, and accountants. … Continued

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