Who says the age of bipartisanship is dead? Politico reports that Republican and Democrat lawmakers are coming together on an issue they can agree on: the critical shortage of low-wage workers in the United States.
The left-leaning BuzzFeed News and right-leaning Breitbart News are producing essential reporting about the little-known world of nonimmigrant guest worker programs.
An investigative report on H-2 visa programs shows that the displacement of U.S. workers isn't limited to the tech industry but is a feature of guest worker programs for both high and low-wage workers.
As the Obama administration continues to take public comments on its proposal to expand a foreign worker program never approved by Congress, another court has ruled to protect Congress' right to preserve American jobs for the legal workforce.
The San Francisco Chronicle and The Nation are headlining a series of crowdfunding campaigns to sponsor new immigration reporting through Beacon, which is offering $3 million in matching grants.
There's an interesting conversation happening on Tech Raptor about Silicon Valley.
In "There Is No Diversity Crisis In Tech," Brian Hall writes:
Writing for The Atlantic about the politics of incarceration and crime prevention, David Frum makes a connection between employment opportunities and U.S. immigration policy.
Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders got a lot of media attention this week for a statement that most Americans would find totally non-controversial. Sanders surprised interviewer Ezra Klein of Vox with a forceful rejection of an open-borders immigration policy. Byron York of the Washington Examiner reports: