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Brookings Institution Report Misleadingly Suggests GuestWorker EO Cost Corporations Billions

Spencer Raley — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 16:22:42 +0000

The Brookings Institution recently released a report titled “An Executive Order Worth $100 Billion; The Impact of an Immigration Ban’s Announcement on Fortune 500 firms Valuation,” in which they attempted to paint President Trump’s guest worker pause as a huge financial loss for American corporations. The overall claim, as evidenced by the title, is that [...]

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Trump Short-Circuits Worker Replacement Scheme at TVA

Bob Dane — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 18:47:20 +0000

Triggered by controversial job outsourcing at the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), the Trump administration took steps this week to protect Americans in the federal workforce. An executive order signed by President Donald Trump targets use and abuse of H-1B (“skilled”) work visas by requiring federal agencies to prioritize hiring U.S. citizens and green card holders [...]

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AFL-CIO’s Convoluted Response to Trump Guestworker EO

Pawel Styrna — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 17:00:56 +0000

During a recent interview on Fox’s “Mornings with Maria,” host Maria Bartiromo spoke with Richard Trumka – the president of the largest federation of labor unions in the U.S., the AFL-CIO (American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations) – on a wide range of issues. Among the issues discussed was President Trump’s new proclamation temporarily [...]

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House Homeland Security Chairman Attacks Executive Order

Preston Huennekens — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 19:09:27 +0000

Chairman of the House’s Homeland Security Committee Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) released a statement attacking the Trump administration’s expanded executive order barring incoming guestworkers in the H-1B, H-2B, J-1, and L-1 programs from coming to the United States. Rep. Thompson is a frequent critic of the President, particularly when it comes to immigration. Rep. Thompson vowed [...]

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Interactive Blog: NPR Examines U.S. Immigration Policy in the Context of the President’s Immigration Executive Order – Rate This Clip

Dave Ray — Mon, 04 May 2020 13:29:36 +0000

National Public Radio’s (NPR) Ailsa Chang recently interviewed U.S. immigration history professor Erika Lee from the University of Minnesota about “anti-immigrant sentiments” and how they have historically been tied to times of hardship, including “disease, economic downturns and war.” This interview was conducted in the context of the recent presidential Executive Order (EO) temporarily pausing [...]

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EB-5 Exempt from Trump’s Executive Order

Preston Huennekens — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 17:25:06 +0000

President Donald Trump issued an executive order on April 22 barring some classes of immigrant and non-immigrant visas. The eight section proclamation notes that “we must be mindful of the impact of foreign workers on the United States labor market, particularly in an environment of high domestic unemployment and depressed demand for labor.” The executive [...]

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