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Date July 11, 2025

John Kerry joins Democratic voices calling for limits: “without a border protected, you don’t have a nation.”

Democratic post-election analysis identified immigration - both the border crisis and overall levels - as the decisive issue in the 2024 presidential election. It remains President Trump's most popular issue and one of the Democratic party's greatest liabilities.

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Date July 10, 2025

Why all these unnecessary foreign worker programs?

These programs bypass domestic workers and exploit foreigners who work for less. As the headlines make clear, there is no shortage of American STEM talent. So why is our government filling hundreds of thousands of jobs with guest workers?

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Date May 26, 2025

Confirmation hearing reignites criticism of unnecessary foreign worker program (OPT)

President Trump’s NumbersUSA-endorsed pick to lead U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) told the Senate Judiciary Committee this week that he would like to “remove the ability for employment authorisations for F-1 students beyond the time they are in school.” Specifically, Edlow called the Optional Practical Training program (OPT) a “misapplication of the law”. Ending … Continued

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Date May 9, 2025

A humane immigration policy would consider these people

With Pope Leo XIV's views on U.S. immigration policy subject to recent public interest, we are reposting these in hope that they will contribute to the public understanding of different approaches to a humane policy.

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Date May 2, 2025

Rep. Elijah Crane and Sen. Jim Banks introduce bill to end chain migration

The Nuclear Family Priority Act to end extended-family chain migration has been introduced in both the House (H.R. 2705) and Senate (S. 1328) by Rep. Elijah Crane and Sen. Jim Banks, respectively. This is the first time since 2020 that the Senate has introduced a bill to end chain migration. The Nuclear Family Priority Act … Continued

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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 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 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 February 1, 2025

The Historic Surge of Illegal Immigration Under President Biden

International audiences who follow American media are aware that under President Joe Biden, “unprecedented migration” to the United States occurred. The term migration is wholly appropriate here in the sense that millions of people from around the world crossed the U.S. border. However, under U.S. law, these migrants were overwhelmingly inadmissible aliens – an alien … Continued

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