Immigration

DT: It’s a disaster. It would allow any company in America to replace any worker with cheaper foreign labor. It legalizes job theft. It gives companies the legal right to pass over Americans, displace Americans, or directly replace Americans for good-paying middle class jobs. More than 80 percent of these H-1Bs are paid less than the average wage. Senator Rubio works for the lobbyists, not for Americans. That is why he is receiving more money from Silicon Valley than any other candidate in this race. He is their puppet. … [Read more...] about EXCLUSIVE — Donald Trump Rights Ship on Immigration: Demands Disney Rehire Workers Replaced by Cheap Foreign Labor, Calls Rubio ‘Silicon Valley’s Puppet’

“Borders, which have always been considered as dividing barriers, can instead become ‘windows,’ spaces of mutual knowledge, of mutual enrichment, of communion in diversity,” Francis said. “They can become places for experimentation with models to overcome the difficulties that new arrivals entail for native communities.” … [Read more...] about Pope Francis: Borders Are ‘Windows’ for Immigration, Not Barriers

As New York City has been on lockdown for more than six months, rents have started dropping and vacancies are shooting up in Manhattan — the city’s most expensive borough. A New York Times report in August noted that more than 120,000 apartments became available in June and July. At the time same, Manhattan rents have been cut by as much as ten percent compared to 2019 rates. … [Read more...] about Report: Immigration to New York City Drops 45 Percent in Last Four Years

The White House has been telling Republican senators that it expects the Supreme Court to overturn the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling extending protections for undocumented immigrants under the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The implication is that what is now an indefinite grace period would quickly disappear — and that Democrats would be without leverage and forced to accept more Republican demands in order to codify DACA. … [Read more...] about Senate Kills Every Immigration Proposal

So as a follow-on, Paul Ryan & Co. scheduled a vote this week for the “compromise” immigration bill that House Republicans have been slaving over for weeks, which was designed to bridge all the differences within the caucus on immigration policy (Democrats were irrelevant in this process, and were excluded from the beginning). It became clear that the “compromise” bill wasn’t going to pass either, but no one expected the fiasco that occurred when it was finally brought to the floor. Here’s Roll Call’s summary: … [Read more...] about House GOP’s Immigration ‘Compromise’ Was an Even Bigger Flop Than Their Last Bill