Excerpt: Rebuffing pleas and threats from tech CEOs and establishment graybeards from Silicon Valley to Cambridge, Massachusetts — as well as some of his swampier advisers — last week President Trump moved to suspend several temporary work visa programs. His goal is to give U.S. workers first crack at the hundreds of thousands of jobs normally taken by foreign workers. Taking place against the backdrop of an emotional national discussion on lingering racism in our society, this move will do more to boost the socio-economic prospects for Black and Latino Americans than all the statue-toppling and virtue-signaling coming from the left.

Excerpt: In March 20, I wrote about the ongoing resettlement of refugees in the United States despite the Covid-19 outbreak. From January 29 — the day the president's Coronavirus Task Force was formed — through June 17, 3,329 refugees of numerous nationalities (including the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burma, Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan, Pakistan, Syria, and Iran) were resettled in California, Texas, New York, Michigan, and other states.

Even after U.S. refugee admissions were officially suspended on March 19 following UN agencies' announcement of the temporary suspension of the refugee resettlement program in view of the Covid-19 global health crisis, refugees were still being admitted into the United States, albeit in smaller numbers. On June 18, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the world body's refugee agency) announced "the resumption of resettlement departures for refugees."

Cancel Culture at NPR: 'We declined to talk to them'
By Jerry Kammer
Yesterday, as I listened to a replay of Monday's "1A" program on National Public Radio, host Sasha-Ann Simons made a statement that indicates an ideological virus has infected WAMU, the showcase NPR affiliate in the nation's capital.

Sticking to the Narrative on H-1B
By John Miano
In a previous post I noted how the news coverage of President Trump’s efforts to protect American workers have been predictably attacked in the conglomerate-controlled media. Hank Gilman writing for Newsweek noticed the same.

DHS and DOJ Move to Discard Irrelevant Regulations
By Andrew R. Arthur
Two weeks ago, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a Joint Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (JNPR) to make various changes to the immigration regulations. It is a shame that the departments did not have time to do more trimming, but what they did do is a model for future deletions of irrelevant provisions.

USCIS Faces Very Serious Budget Crunch as Fee Income Falls
By David North
The time has come to rethink the wisdom of trying to run USCIS largely on application fees, a policy followed, I think, by no other immigration agency in the world.

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