Bob Good -- who filled out NumbersUSA's candidate survey and promised to be a True Reformer on 12 top immigration goals -- has unseated incumbent Republican Congressman Denver Riggleman at the Party's primary convention.
A key issue in Rep. Riggleman's defeat was the charge that he was a close ally of business lobbies in their desire for more foreign workers.
The Trump adminis- tration is proposing broad changes to the U.S. asylum process that would make it more difficult for migrants seeking admission to the country under false pretense, according to a statement from the Justice and Homeland Security departments.
The Trump adminis- tration is decreasing the number of illegal immigrants in the country and deporting more than are entering, according to an official from the Department of Homeland Security.
Activists, lawmakers and White House officials are bracing for the Supreme Court in the coming weeks to allow the Trump administration to end the program that protects immigrants who came to the country illegally as children, known as Dreamers.
The North Carolina Supreme Court has ruled state judges don’t have authority to release immigrants held by a county sheriff working on behalf of the U.S. government with documents directing them to be detained.
A group of Republican lawmakers is asking the Trump administration to reject their Buy American, Hire American - America First mantra and actively undermine the nearly 40 million Americans who are out of work due to the panic surrounding COVID-19, in two letters the lawmakers demand that the President protect and ensure that millions of foreign visa workers will flood the labor market this year, as unemployment soars past Great Depression levels.
Another 2.1 million Americans filed for unemployment last week, according to new data released by the Department of Labor earlier today. Last week's claims bring total unemployment claims over the last 10 weeks as a result of government shutdowns during the Covid-19 pandemic to 40.8 million.