The business community is trying to have it both ways. They continuously claim there is a labor shortage and at the same time layoffs have increased five-fold this year. Amid these layoffs, the Big Business and the media call for ever more immigration to solve inflation, worker shortages, and our national fiscal problems.
On Tuesday, President Biden used his State of the Union address to double down on his calls for Congress to pass a massive amnesty for illegal aliens while misleadingly championing a recent drop in specific migrant numbers.
The Republican Study Committee recently released its Fiscal Year 2023 budget proposal which includes a plan to end Biden's border crisis, curb future illegal immigration, and reform America's deteriorating legal immigration system.
After several failed attempts, House Democrats finally completed the first step to passing what would be the largest illegal alien amnesty in U.S. history this morning by approving H.R. 5376, Pres. Biden's Build Back Better legislation.
Pres. Biden's Build Back Better plan (H.R. 5376) -- which Congressional Democrats hope to pass through the budget reconciliation process -- would result in the largest amnesty for illegal aliens in our nation's history, plus more than 1 million additional green cards. Here's a list of the immigration provisions in the House version of the bill.
Once again, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi planned a vote on the Democrats' $1.75 trillion budget reconciliation amnesty bill on Friday only to rescind the vote hours later. However, the threat of Congress passing what could become the largest illegal alien amnesty in U.S. history is still very much alive.
On Friday night, the House Subcommittee on Immigration as part of the House Judiciary Committee released the blueprints for their disastrous and irreversible amnesty proposal - Democrats hope to add the amnesty to the massive $3,500,000,000,000 Budget Reconciliation Package which they hope to pass with a slim majority in the House, and just 50 Senators.
Last week, the Center for Immigration Studies released its latest "Parsing Immigration Policy," this one on civil rights trailblazer and head of the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, Barbara Jordan. Discussing Jordan and the Commission's work with CIS Executive Director Mark Krikorian was NumbersUSA Director of Research, Eric Ruark.
This year's RSC Budget champions truly common-sense reforms that could transform a failing immigration system designed to favor big business and the investor class into a national policy that defends working American citizens' and already present immigrants' safety and economic opportunity.
This week, President Joe Biden lifted a freeze on green cards issued by President Trump during the pandemic that protected vulnerable U.S. jobs during the pandemic.