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Biden Ends Guestworker Pause Despite Dire Economic Outlook

Preston Huennekens — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 17:27:51 +0000

At the height of the pandemic, then-President Donald Trump wisely paused certain guestworker admissions, citing widespread unemployment as a result of the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. In January, President Trump signed an extension of these protections until March 31. Despite his continued warnings that the pandemic is far from over, President Joe Biden [...]

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Mexico’s President Suggests Restarting Bracero-like Program

Preston Huennekens — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 19:11:34 +0000

President of Mexico Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador – commonly referred to by his initials, AMLO – suggested creating a new guestworker program that would allow migrant workers from Mexico and other Central American countries to work in the United States temporarily. AMLO estimated that such a program could bring 600,000 to 800,000 foreign workers to [...]

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Critical Proclamation Barring Foreign Guest Workers Is Set to Expire, Trump Must Extend

RJ Hauman — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 18:45:27 +0000

President Trump’s Proclamation 10052 (Suspending Entry of Aliens Who Present a Risk to the U.S. Labor Market Following the Coronavirus Outbreak) was issued on June 22 at FAIR’s urging, but is set to expire on December 31. You heard that right – it ends in just a couple of days. This critical proclamation suspended the [...]

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2020 Cases Demonstrate How Guestworker Programs Are Abused

Pawel Styrna — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 20:06:55 +0000

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 outright job losses for American workers. The foreign workers, in turn, may be better off in terms of wages than they would have [...]

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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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As COVID-19 Exposes the Defects of Globalism, America Must Rediscover National Self-Reliance

Pawel Styrna — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 21:24:07 +0000

The global COVID-19 pandemic – which originated in the Wuhan region of China, and which initially spread in large part because of the Beijing communist regime’s cover-up – has hit the American and other Western economies particularly hard. As a result of the coronavirus, 26 million Americans are now unemployed, a level not seen since [...]

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