Immigration numbers must be a factor in policy decisions to ensure on-shore renewal of manufacturing jobs from the CHIPS and Inflation Reduction Acts go to American workers first.
Americans are living more densely, on average, but we've paved over more than eleven-and-a-half million acres over the past two decades. Most of the loss is a result of the U.S. population growing by nearly 40 million people – a result of Congressional immigration policy.
Voters without college degrees outnumber those with by 2-to-1, and their political allegiances have been shifting. Polls indicate that the realignment is about to accelerate, and immigration appears to be a major factor. The managerial class, meanwhile, presses on with policies to give the investment class greater access to the global labor force.
Visa programs work to keep Americans, and Blacks in particular, un- and under-employed.
Readers weigh in on a The New York Times op-ed that has a simplistic pro-immigration vs. anti-immigration (mis)understanding of the issue and debate. That is not
Biden's approval ratings on immigration have plummeted, and Latino voters in Texas are the tip of the down-facing arrow. But Biden is hardly alone.
The Chamber of Commerce has started a lobbying campaign to massively increase legal immigration into the United States, specifically a momentous increase in foreign visa workers to further stagnate and even lower prevailing wages in the American job market.
This coming Wednesday, the House subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship, will hold a hearing oddly entitled "Why Don't They Just Get in Line? Barriers to Legal Immigration." You may think this is a waste of time and certainly I forgive the sentiment. However, there is always opportunity to learn even in the darkest of times. On paper, Democrats holding a committee hearing to rebut a strawman rhetorical question they asked themselves is an excellent microcosm of how Democratic leadership has functioned in the majority this year, but it does provide some space for an actual discussion about how many legal ways aliens can enter the United States.
The New York Times Magazine writer C.J. Chivers ponders an immigration enforcement puzzle while failing to consider that E-Verify would prevent illegal aliens coming into the U.S. by land or sea.