White House Issues Misleading Report on Agriculture’s Need for More Foreign...
The Obama administration has issued another slick report urging adoption of the U.S. Senate’s version of comprehensive immigration reform (S.744) in order to meet the labor needs of agricultural...
View ArticleObama Takes Revenge on Congress
Since Speaker Boehner initially declared immigration dead for 2013, the Obama administration has initiated sweeping, unilateral changes to U.S. immigration policy. Without consultation – let alone...
View ArticleWhite House Issues Misleading Report on Agriculture’s Need for More Foreign...
The Obama administration has issued another slick report urging adoption of the U.S. Senate’s version of comprehensive immigration reform (S.744) in order to meet the labor needs of agricultural...
View ArticleObama Takes Revenge on Congress
Since Speaker Boehner initially declared immigration dead for 2013, the Obama administration has initiated sweeping, unilateral changes to U.S. immigration policy. Without consultation – let alone...
View ArticleAmericans: Overlooked and Underpaid
Without considering the needs of his fellow Americans, an activist farmer in Michigan is calling for blanket amnesty on behalf of illegal aliens. His call stems from a lack of American citizens...
View ArticlePowerful Ag Group Once Again Standing in the Way of Mandatory E-Verify
On Wednesday, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) introduced the bipartisan AG and Legal Workforce Act (H.R. 6417) – legislation that would mandate E-Verify and create a new...
View ArticleWashington State Farmers Growing Reliance On Cheap Labor
H-2A applications have surged in the state by more than 1,000 percent in the past ten years. The post Washington State Farmers Growing Reliance On Cheap Labor appeared first on ImmigrationReform.com.
View ArticleLawmakers Punch U.S. Workers in the Gut
A House Democrats’ bill aimed at relieving the economic devastation of coronavirus is named the “Take Responsibility for Workers and Families Act.” An appropriately short subtitle would be the “Take...
View ArticleU.S. ‘Waives’ Through Foreign Farm Hands as Unemployment Soars
In the face of skyrocketing unemployment, the federal government continues to put foreign workers on a fast track for U.S. agricultural jobs. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo authorized consular officers...
View ArticleDHS Allows Agricultural Guestworkers to Stay Indefinitely
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to spur change across the federal government’s leviathan bureaucracy. On April 15, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Agriculture (USDA)...
View ArticleMaine Loggers Blast Federal Government For Not Enforcing Immigration Law
The American purview of immigration seems to rarely drift away from our southern border. However, that does not mean illegal migration and trade on our northern borders is any less detrimental to U.S....
View Article2020 Cases Demonstrate How Guestworker Programs Are Abused
The big picture argument against the alphabet soup of guestworker programs (the H-1B, H-2B, H-2A, etc.) is that they are essentially a cheap labor subsidy to business resulting in stagnant wages or...
View ArticleFarm Groups Pressure Senate for More Foreign Farmworkers
The Agricultural Workforce Coalition (AWC), a group of farming and agricultural organizations, sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)...
View Article‘Modern-Day Slavery’ Ring Busted in Georgia
More than 100 migrant farm workers in the southeast U.S. were freed from the “shackles of modern-day slavery” when federal agents broke up a transnational crime ring. Two-dozen people, including...
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