Yesterday, The Associated Press published yet another immigration story with the business lobbyist-preferred “worker shortage” frame for their coverage: “Ahead of Kentucky Derby, worker shortage looms for trainers” (headline by ABC News). As usual, the narrative being serviced is that the American carnage we need to fear is that which results from any lack or … Continued

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The Democratic Party approved its Party Platform during its national convention this week, and while some Democrats complained that it didn’t go far enough in embracing a more open-borders agenda, there’s not much to like for supporters of reduced immigration. THE BAD – Increased legal immigration, mass amnesty, and less enforcement One line on the … Continued

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Discussions on class divisions often center on the highly disproportionate wealth and power concentrated in the hands of a few. Analysts use a myriad of terms to define this group. For author Michael Lind the term is the “managerial elite,” who he describes in his latest book The New Class War published this past January. … Continued

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“Let heaven and men and devils, let them all,All, all, cry shame against me, yet I’ll speak” –Othello, Vii It’s not the current fashion to acknowledge that the post-1965 wave of immigration has had lasting and deleterious effects on Black Americans, but John Wood, Jr. of Braver Angels (@johnwoodjr) goes there on The Darkhorse Podcast from July 13, 2020, “Black … Continued

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President Trump has taken significant steps to protect American workers. In June, he extended the immigration pause to include several categories of temporary work visas. This week he signed another executive order to ensure that federal agencies do not layoff American contract workers in order to outsource those jobs to foreign guest workers, as was … Continued

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NumbersUSA’s Jeremy Beck (Media Standards Director), Grant Newman (Government Relations Chief of Staff), and Rob Harding (Sustainability Communications Manager) discuss John Oliver’s segment on legal immigration. JEREMY: So John Oliver dedicated one of his popular monologues to legal immigration. He broke down the legal system for immigrants and non-immigrants. What did you think? GRANT: I … Continued

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A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to tour the ICE detention facility in Aurora, Colo., owned and operated by The GEO Group. This facility has been at the center of the immigration-enforcement debate ever since protesters replaced the facility’s American flag with a Mexican flag and defaced a Blue Lives Matter flag earlier … Continued

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Add Ecuador to a growing list of South American countries beginning to close or significantly restrict mass migration spilling over their borders, a tragic consequence of the chaos and corruption that has plunged over 90% of Venezuela’s population into poverty. It is estimated that by the end of this year, over 5 million Venezuelens will … Continued

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A number of media outlets are reporting that the Trump administration has ended the “medical deferred action” program, which will result in the removal of thousands of illegal aliens living in the country who are receiving life-saving medical treatment. However, the reports misrepresent the policy change and exaggerate the impacts. First, there is no “medical … Continued

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