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Reuters reported that data provided by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) shows that between Jan.1 and Aug. 31 of this year, USCIS issued 85,000 challenges or “requests for evidence” (RFEs) to H-1B petitions. This is a 45% increase compared to the same period last year which only issued around 59,000 RFEs.
Former Congressman Tom Tancredo penned an open letter to Pope Francis this week, urging the Pontiff to concentrate on the generosity of the American people, who welcome in more immigrants than any other nation, and to defend the right of Americans to implement immigration laws beneficial to the common good of the citizenry.
A new U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) report shows that between April 1 and June 31, 102,568 DACA applications were approved. This is a slight decrease from the second quarter when 124,799 applications were approved.
Despite demands from employers, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) stopped accepting applications for H-2B low-skilled guest worker visas on Sept. 15, nearly 5,000 visas short of the 18,000 that were made available by former DHS Secretary John Kelly. Congress authorized DHS to issue approximately 70,000 additional H-2B visas above the annual cap of 66,000 earlier this year. At the time, Sec. Kelly announced that he would issue only 18,000, but USCIS had only received 13,534 applications as of Sept. 15.
President Donald J. Trump spoke at the UN General Assembly for the first time today, and while he spoke on a great number of subjects, including North Korea's pursuit of nuclear weapons and the Iran nuclear deal, the president took time to speak in support of strong borders to control mass immigration and in support of housing refugees close to their countries of origin. On borders and immigration, President Trump said:
Up for re-election next year, Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin has to contend with an Wisconsin electorate that polling finds overwhelmingly wants immigration reduced -- just like President Trump who won the state's electoral votes last year.
Every political junkie in the country was trying to decode Pres. Trump's cryptic Tweet this morning on chain migration.
A new national poll of "likely midterm voters" find 55% of them favoring a bill that "would allow immigrants to bring in their spouse and minor children but would end migration of extended family."
Only 32% of the voters say they oppose eliminating the Chain Migration categories.
ROY BECK is Founder & President of NumbersUSA