Watch Out! We've got two GREAT Shareables and two major news events (with connections to immigration).

Great Content #1:

Yes, unsurprisingly, the usual suspects are at it again. Suzanne Clark, President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, delivered a keynote address calling for a doubling of legal immigration in addition to amnesty. Lobbyists for those profiting off mass immigration never stop talking.

But we continue to see voices rise up in opposition to their schemes. In this case, Conn Carroll, Commentary Editor at the Washington Examiner, authored a potent pushback: No, we dont need to double immigration to stop inflation.

Here's my favorite paragraph with stats:

"If Clark wants to start filling those 10.6 million job openings, the businesses that pay her $4 million salary should start offering to pay their workers more. Just 61.9% of working-age people are in the American labor force. To bring those 10.6 million job openings down to zero, the labor force participation rate would only have to rise to 65.9%, a level last reached in 2008."

Here's the unusually blunt final paragraph, urging Republicans to "lean in" towards their realignment with working class interests:

"The Chamber of Commerce exists to keep workers' wages low. It is a blessing that the Chamber has abandoned the Republican Party and thrown their lot in with the Democrats. Let the Democrats defend mass migration and the low wages that come with it."

Great Content #2:

Meanwhile, Henry Olsen, a regular columnist at The Washington Post who has written in support of E-Verify in the past, is back at it with an optimistic piece on how powerful mandatory E-Verify could be as an issue for candidates like J.D. Vance:

"But Vance's recent embrace of mandatory E-Verify, the federal government's program to verify the legal status of job applicants, could be the thing that brings him back.

...He also may be the only candidate in the race to fully embrace the popular idea. That's because business groups often quietly lobby against it, and many Republicans have close ties with those entities. Businesses often benefit from looking the other way at an employee's legal status, knowing that workers living in the United States illegally may be less likely to seek high wages or push for wage hikes.

...Vance coming from behind to win on the basis of mandatory E-Verify would force Republicans to align themselves with their voters, not their donors."

Event #1 - Synagogue Attack:

As you have probably already heard, there was a dangerous hostage situation over the weekend at a Colleyville, TX synagogue. While details continue to be released about the moment-by-moment actions taken to end the standoff, the most important fact is that those taken hostage are now safe and did not suffer physical harm.

But the incident has raised troubling questions about how the foreign national who perpetrated the attack in Colleyville was able to enter the United States. This aspect is getting some coverage, especially in "conservative" media (Washington Examiner, Fox News, Breitbart, for example).

But The Washington Post editorial board is also inquiring:

"After 9/11, strict security protocols were put in place to screen out people coming to the United States with the aim of doing harm. What were the circumstances of Mr. Akram's entry through New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport on Dec. 29; was there a human mistake or a failure in the system that needs to addressed? It will be important for authorities to determine whether Mr. Akram acted alone."

Whether hard news coverage in legacy publications like the Associated Press and New York Times follow this story, you can be sure that NumbersUSA's Hill team will be - not to mention pushing behind the scenes for reforms that will prevent these failures from occurring.

Event #2 - "Nobody Cares" Billionaire:

Did you hear about the billionaire owner of the NBA's Golden State Warriors, who caused a stir with an interview where he flatly explained that "nobody cares" about the ongoing human rights abuse of the Uyghurs by China's government - a campaign that the U.S. Department of State officially labeled "genocide."

While this is not currently an immigration issue (though it could have refugee implications in the future), there is an immigration component due to the central figure in this story, Chamath Palihapitiya (a refugee himself) being a key figure in founding the FWD.us lobbying effort to grant amnesty and increase H-1B visas on behalf of big tech interests.

Facebook's Zuckerberg personally handpicked Palihapitiya to be involved.

This recent piece in The Hill explains:

"Study after study bears out the fact that immigration depresses wages and limits opportunities for Americans. Facebook settled a recent lawsuit with the Justice Department over its use of H-1B workers. Mark Zuckerberg's company will pay a $4.75 million fine and up to $9.5 million to affected American workers as part of the settlement, in which it acknowledged preferring H-1B guest workers over Americans. Of course, this should come as no surprise. Zuckerberg founded FWD.us, one of the largest open-borders lobbying groups in the country with an operating budget of tens of millions of dollars. The use of foreign workers by giant tech companies is by design, not by accident."

I wonder if any of you would care if we cut off the tech oligarch's H-1B visas. I know I wouldn't.

We could at least make major reforms to stop undercutting American tech workers.

Thank you for all you do to share good content, share your opinions, and add your voice to the national discourse in a way that encourages a focus on helpful reforms to solve policy problems.