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President Biden's border policies will deliver "an unending flood of foreign nationals," says a GOP that ignores the damage to wages.

26 Jan 2021 GOP Sens. Mitt Romney and Rob Portman joined with five Democrats Tuesday to allow President Joe Biden’s amnesty chief to get an up-or-down confirmation vote on the Senate floor. The two GOP senators changed the result to a seven-to-four committee approval for Alejandro Mayorkas, putting him on a path to a narrow confirmation in the Senate. Once confirmed, he can use his extensive experience to write regulations that will implement many of Biden’s amnesty and cheap labor policies...

Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) ha rejected President-elect Joe Biden’s draft amnesty, saying "everyone" must first have a chance for a good job.

16 Jan 2021 President-elect Joe Biden’s draft immigration plan does not include any protections for Americans, while it offers the huge prize of American citizenship to at least 11 million migrants from around the world, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times. The January 15 report says: The proposed legislation would not contain any provisions directly linking an expansion of immigration with stepped-up enforcement and security measures, said Marielena Hincapié, executive director ...

15 Jan 2021 The Department of Homeland Security is promising to issue a detailed report about the roughly 500,000 white-collar jobs that are transferred from American graduates to foreigners via the huge university-backed Optional Practical Training (OPT) program, which is often described as the younger version of the H-1B program. The agency “is currently unable to evaluate the impact OPT has had on U.S. workers and foreign students who have obtained work authorization through the programs,�...

7 Jan 2021 The GOP’s failure in the two Georgia Senate races dramatically raises the likelihood that Joe Biden’s pro-migration, anti-enforcement nominee will be confirmed as head of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), say activists. President-elect Joe Biden announced in late November he would nominate Cuban-born immigrant Alejandro Mayorkas. “His previous activities as [United States Citizenship and Immigration Services agency] USCIS director should preclude him from getting the j...