DHS Sec. Nielsen told a House panel on Wednesday that she intends to increase the limit on H-2B visas over the existing annual cap of 66,000. Nielsen told Members of a House Appropriations Subcommittee that she and Labor Sec. Alex Acosta will discuss a timeline by the end of this week.
Earlier this week, USCIS launched a new website -- E-Verify.gov -- containing a wealth of information on the free, online tool that allows employers to check if new hires are authorized to work in the United States. Much of the information could previously be found across the agency's main website, but the new site, dedicated to solely E-Verify, makes the information easier to access and presents it in a more effective way.
As is so often the case, the Times' story struggles to find room for the perspective of the people who stand to benefit from restrictions on non-immigrant guest worker programs: American workers.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials arrested arrested 97 suspected illegal-alien workers last Thursday, in the largest workplace raid in a decade, at a cattle-slaughter facility in northeast Tennessee just outside Knoxville. The agency worked with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Tennessee Highway Patrol, and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to execute a federal criminal search warrant of the facility.
The Trump Administration is sending National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border in response to a spike in border apprehension numbers combined with news of a caravan of more than 1,000 Central Americans making its way through Mexico to the Southern border. But only reforms from Congress can truly stop border surges.
The Goodlatte bill would close the asylum loopholes that open-borders organizers of the caravan hope to exploit. Since 2009, merely claiming a "credible fear" is usually enough to be released into the U.S. indefinitely, and frivolous claims have overloaded the system to the point that applicants with legitimate claims wait years to have their cases heard.
The March job numbers are out today and job creation is "less than expected." Less important to Wall Street but more important to most of the rest of us is that the number of persons employed fell 37,000 from February to March. The numbers unemployed also fell (-121,000), as did the civilian labor force (-158,000), leading to a significant increase in those not in the labor force (+323,000).
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released a report Wednesday revealing that border patrol agents apprehended 50,308 persons last month — 37 percent more apprehensions than in February and about 200 percent more than the 16,588 apprehended the same month one year ago.
DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen announced in the White House press briefing today that Pres. Trump has told officials to deploy the National Guard in order to bolster security along the southern border and that he “will be signing a proclamation to that effect today.”
California's sanctuary law could be repealed if a group founded by “Angel Parents” is successful. The group, Fight Sanctuary State, introduced a ballot initiative to overturn the California Values Act, which limits cooperation between state and local authorities and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau. The initiative would require local police to cooperate with ICE and impose criminal penalties on local government officials who obstruct immigration enforcement.