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President Joe Biden will restart the unpopular but business-backed inflow of Central American consumers and replacement labor, reports say.

Joe Biden: Amnesty for Everyone Who Was Here on January 1 18 Jan 2021 President-elect Joe Biden’s amnesty plan will reportedly provide the glittering prize of U.S. citizenship to everyone who can show they were in the United States illegally on January 1, if Congress passes the wage-cutting, nation-changing legislation amid a deep economic recession. “To qualify, immigrants must have been in the United States as of Jan. 1, a move meant to blunt any rush to the border,” according to a desc...

America is a "Nation of Immigrants," and should welcome migrants whatever the impact on Americans' wages, according to Biden's DHS nominee.

14 Jan 2021 Four former homeland security chiefs have endorsed President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for homeland security because he helped deliver work permits to roughly 800,000 illegal migrants. “We each know [nominee Alejandro] Mayorkas as a man of character, integrity, experience and compassion … he helped create and administer the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals [DACA] program,” said the January 12 Washington Postop-ed by former DHS secretaries Tom Ridge, Michael Chertoff,...

Donald Trump Sets Wage Protections for U.S. Graduates 12 Jan 2021 President Donald Trump’s Department of Labor has released an updated set of rules to protect the wages of American graduates from the damage done by CEOs’ use of H-1B visa workers. “The U.S. Department of Labor is taking these steps to strengthen wage protections, address abuses in visa programs, and protect American workers from being undercut by cheaper foreign labor,” said U.S. Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia said in ...

13 Jan 2021 President Donald Trump celebrated his presidency’s pro-American migration reforms in a border speech on Tuesday — just after a vice-president at one of Mark Zuckerberg’s advocacy groups described his policies as “evil.” “We took on the cartels, the coyotes, and the special interests, and we restored the rule of law,” Trump declared in a subdued speech Alamo, Texas. He continued: For years, politicians ran for office promising to secure the border, only to get elected a...

DHS OKs Huge H-1B Visa Reform to Help U.S. Graduates 8 Jan 2021 The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is helping U.S. graduates by ending the lottery for H-1B foreign workers that has allowed Fortune 500 CEOs to import mid-skilled, poorly-paid foreign graduates for the starter jobs needed by U.S. graduates. The new process will allocate the annual supply of 85,000 H-1B visas to corporations that offer the highest pay. The ranking system will end the economic incentive to hire mid-skilled H-...

Democrats won the White House but are alarmed at the political power of Trump's populist economic platform, says the Washington Post.

Democrats won the White House but are alarmed at the political power of Trump's populist economic platform, says the Washington Post.

The Washington Post has joined the chorus of Joe Biden’s supporters who are warning him not to implement his campaign trail promise to recklessly dismantle President Donald Trump’s hard-earned, pr0-American border reforms. Biden “must also avoid triggering a new humanitarian crisis at the Mexican border featuring unauthorized Central Americans and Mexicans streaming north,” the Post The statement continued: Any sudden move to abolish [Trump’s] policy without an orderly system to rep...