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The H-1B visa program, designed to permit the temporary hiring of specialized foreign workers in fields like technology and healthcare, has recently become the focal point of a contentious debate. While the H-1B visa serves as a critical bridge for talent in addressing labor shortages, particularly within the STEM sectors, it has also been a…

Online posts claim Tyson Foods plans to hire 52,000 migrants after laying off 1,200 American workers at an Iowa factory. This is misleading; the food processing firm expects to make thousands of hires to replace departing workers, with authorized refugees being among new staff in an industry that has high turnover.

Immigration has propelled the U.S. job market further than just about anyone expected, helping cement the country’s economic rebound from the pandemic as the most robust in the world. That momentum picked up aggressively over the past year. About 50 percent of the labor market’s extraordinary recent growth came from foreign-born workers between January 2023 and January 2024, according to an Economic Policy Institute analysis of federal data. And even before that, by the middle of 2...

Although Congress is failing to pass laws to restrict the number of migrants arriving in the United States, a majority of Americans -- about 6 in 10 -- believe there's an immigration crisis along the Mexico-U.S. border.

US regulators are cracking down on business practices that mean workers are not paid their due, a problem exacerbated in building industry by use of labor broker system

A group of 43 mayors from around the country are asking the Biden administration and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to permanently extend work permits for migrants, citing economic concerns and shelter space. In a letter delivered Monday to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director Ur Jaddou, the…

Nearly four dozen city mayors are calling on the Biden administration to extend work permits for migrants, stating that without the measure thousands will lose their jobs.

SAN DIEGO (Border Report) — More than $63 billion in remittances were sent to Mexico in 2023, with most of the money arriving from the United States, according to Banxico, Mexico’s central bank. The figure is a 7% hike from the previous year. Remittances are funds sent from abroad by immigrant workers to family or […]

Militants in Indian-controlled Kashmir fired at two workers from the northern state of Punjab, killing one and wounding another, police said Wednesday. Police blamed militants fighting against Indian rule in the disputed region for the attack in Srinagar. Kashmir has witnessed a spate of targeted killings since October 2019, two months after New Delhi stripped the region of its semi-autonomy, removed inherited protections on land and jobs and cracked down on dissent and press freedom.

For most of his life in the United States, Pedro Manzanares, 53, had lived a discreet life in Chicago’s Little Village, one of the city’s vibrant Mexican immigrant neighborhoods. He had declined to denounce the working conditions at El Milagro — one of the nation’s most popular tortilla factories fined by the state in 2022 for “fragrant violations” of state labor law and still under ...