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Date March 28, 2025

Sen. Grassley’s new E-Verify bill is a GREAT SOLUTION to our enforcement challenges

On Thursday, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) introduced S. 1151, the Accountability Through Electronic Verification Act, to identify unauthorized workers and illegal aliens engaged in identity fraud and theft. The bill is one of NumbersUSA's "Great Solutions" for fixing immigration policies in the 119th Congress.

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Date March 28, 2025

Rep. Gosar introduces “Great Solutions” bill to stop government discounts on hiring foreign workers

On Tuesday, March 25, Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) introduced the Fairness for High-Skilled Americans Act (H.R. 2315) that would end the Optional Practical Training program (OPT) that gives U.S. employers a discount for NOT hiring American workers. The bill is one of NumbersUSA's "Great Solutions" for fixing immigration policies in the 119th Congress.

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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 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 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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Date February 11, 2025

Nine out of ten new jobs have gone to immigrants since 2020

According to a new Center for Immigration Studies analysis of the January 2025 household survey, released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics: “The long-term increase in men not in the labor force is linked to profound social problems,” writes Dr. Steven A. Camarota, “such as crime and overdose deaths. Addressing this deterioration is challenging, but … Continued

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Date December 6, 2024

A post-election progressive argument for immigration limits

Note: NumbersUSA is a nonpartisan organization. We are moderates, conservatives & liberals working together to empower voters to achieve a sensible immigration policy. Immigration cost the Democratic Party dearly this year. Alexander Bolton of The Hill reports: “The final New York Times/Siena College poll of likely voters in the seven battleground states found immigration ranked nearly as … Continued

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