Ongoing mass immigration is not going to "fix" Social Security. At most, it can lead to more contributions to the Social Security Trust Fund in the short-term, but comparisons to a Ponzi scheme are on the mark. The system is not sustainable.
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 have just celebrated Labor Day, and while their President has talked much about unions during his tenure, his Administration is still fighting against workers at every turn. The latest example is in a perpetually expanded H-2B visa program.
One of the few areas of steady bipartisan consensus is that mass immigration is the silver bullet to solve a wide variety of issues in the country. This brings us to the tragic story out of Alabama where it has been discovered young children were being employed at a Hyundai subsidiary. These are the collateral damage stories for the pie-in-the-sky 'nation of immigrants' narrative we are told.
The mid-20th century immigration system got the numbers right but the openness wrong, while the current system gets the openness part right and the numbers wrong. These are some of the influential voices who are pointing toward the future.
For eight days in July 1834, immigrants' fear of the mere possibility of a future flood of newly freed slaves from the South competing with them for jobs in New York City boiled over into a full-scale riot involving thousands. This Juneteenth is a good time to think about the forces that had long opposed emancipation, perhaps none more vigorously in the North than new immigrants from Europe -- a product of thoughtless, uncontrolled mass immigration.
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.
Every year, there is a proposal to "staple a green card to the diploma" of a foreign student who earns a PhD. The idea that there aren't enough intelligent Americans to fill the smart jobs has been especially sticky with a particular subset of Americans, Members of the United States Congress, but it isn't true.
As early as the 1980s, The National Science Foundation (NSF) urged lawmakers to admit more foreign students into Ph.D programs for the purpose of depressing wages.