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Americans need more migrants to recover from the coronavirus crash, according to former President George W. Bush’s presidential center. The nation’s economic recovery will be slowed by the temporary suspension on importing foreign workers that President Donald Trump extended and expanded on June 22, said a June 23 tweet from the center: Suspending Immigration Will…

The ideology being pushed by the Black Lives Matter wave can help corporations shift voters’ attention away from jobs and wages, says Ross Douthat, a conservative columnist at the New York Times. Douthat declines to put a useful name on the progressive strategy. But he refers to it as the “successor ideology” that is now…

President Donald Trump is expected to shrink a huge work permit program that quietly allows companies to hire foreign employees for the jobs needed by U.S. graduates in the coronavirus crash, according to the Wall Street Journal. “The coming temporary restrictions, the officials say, are designed to help American graduates looking for entry-level work during…

A group of university associations is asking a former Microsoft executive in the White House to help preserve a very lucrative student-to-worker program that was created at the request of Microsoft. “We understand that the administration is reviewing the OPT [Optional Practical Training] program as it examines additional actions following the April 22 executive order,…

President Donald Trump may not help Americans if he blocks foreign H-1B visa workers from getting the white-collar jobs sought by unemployed Americans, says a May 18 report by a business-boosted pro-migration group, the National Foundation for American Policy. “There is little reason to think doing so will help American workers,” says the report, authored by Madeline…

The United States will need even more immigrants once the economy has recovered from the coronavirus crash, according to the editorial board of Mike Bloomberg’s news site. “The U.S. will need to bring in more foreign talent, not less, to fill labor shortages in critical fields, notably health care, and to promote innovation,” the editorial board…

Advocates for greater immigration have to quit their plans to further expand immigration and focus on defending their gains from the last 30 years, says Noah Smith, a globalist advocate at Bloomberg News. “We pro-immigration people lost, thanks to external events, the rabid insane commitment of the anti-immigration forces, and the natural ending of the…

The House coronavirus spending bill allows roughly 500,000 college graduate visa-workers from China, India, and elsewhere to stay in their U.S. jobs, regardless of job losses by American graduates in the economic meltdown, according to a lobby group for H-1B workers. The measure would prevent U.S. graduates from getting hundreds of thousands of college-grade jobs…

President Donald Trump told Fox News TV host Laura Ingraham on Friday his 2021 plans to welcome more foreign graduates will not flood the labor market for U.S. college graduates. “I have so many companies coming into this country, you’re not going to have to worry about it,” Trump said in the interview, adding, “It is…

The Department of Homeland Security has again delayed a plan to cancel 100,000 work permits which were printed for the Indian spouses of H-1B visa workers by President Barack Obama. The announcement, by choice or not, is a political gift to the growing Indian diaspora in the United States, and it comes just a few…