The tech industry has been lobbying for increases to the number of temporary foreign workers allowed to come to the U.S. on H-1B visas for years by stressing that there are simply not enough American workers available to fill the needed positions.
Author: Caroline May
Record 25,984,000 Immigrants Employed in the United States in July
The BLS reports that 25,984,000 foreign-born people had a job in the U.S. last month, up 133,000 compared to the previous record set in June.
Record Number of Foreign Travelers Visited the U.S. in 2015
A record number of foreign travelers visited the United States last year, up three percent over 2014, according to new government data.
DACA Gimmick: Nearly 3,000 Illegal Immigrants on Track for Permanent Amnesty
While normally parole is an immigration benefit selectively offered to largely inadmissible aliens for only “urgent humanitarian reasons” or in cases of “significant public benefit,” the Obama Administration has been allowing DACA recipients to seek advance parole — allowing re-entry to the U.S. after traveling abroad — for “educational purposes, employment purposes, or humanitarian purposes.”
DHS Extends Temporary Amnesty to Syrian Nationals in the U.S.
The Department of Homeland Security is redesigning and extending Temporary Protected Status to thousands of Syrian nationals already residing in the United States, DHS Sec. Jeh Johnson announced Monday.
Nearly 1 in 3.6 Working-Age, Native-Born Americans Not in the Labor Force
During the first quarter of 2016, nearly 48.5 million working-age, native-born Americans were not in the labor force. In other words, 28 percent of American-born citizens ages 16 to 65 years old were neither employed nor looking for work.