Fact Check’s Robert Farley looked into Ted Cruz’s claim that Marco Rubio’s immigration bill would have granted legal status (and work permits) to criminal aliens. Farley’s piece, “Cruz Distorts Rubio’s Immigration Stance,” was picked up by USA Today and The Huffington Post among others. Farley concluded that, “one could argue that Rubio’s plan would allow those … Continued

Now we are getting somewhere. Last week, I expressed hope that the New York Times’ series on Disney workers who were forced to train their foreign replacements would lead to similar reporting on less-skilled American workers harmed by policies of mass immigration. The New York Times hasn’t come through yet but others have. In an … Continued

Yesterday afternoon, the New York Times published a blockbuster story, “Last Task After Disney Layoffs: Train Foreign Replacements,” by Julia Preston. As readers of Computerworld know, this not a new story. Local Orlando stations broke the news in January. In fact, the stories of Americans being forced to train their foreign replacements have been around … Continued

Ever since Scott Walker name-dropped Jeff Sessions, the question of immigration levels – and whether they should be increased, decreased, or left the same – has occasionally creeped into the national immigration conversation. We should have had this debate two years ago, when a gang of eight Senators introduced legislation to double future immigration, but … Continued

The editorial board of the New York Times took a cautiously favorable view of Hillary Clinton’s promise to take President Obama’s executive actions on immigration further than his administration believes is within the law. The editorial and Clinton’s comments define the immigration debate as strictly a question of what to do with the 11 million … Continued

Neil Irwin of The Upshot says a variety of factors have likely resulted in less-educated workers getting hammered, including workers moving from shrinking industries to growing ones: “…perhaps a rise in automation and globalization is eliminating manufacturing jobs, and the people who once held those jobs are now competing for work as janitors and food … Continued

Administration officials have been telling the media that federal judge Andrew Hanen’s injunction against President Obama’s November executive actions on immigration limits the administration’s ability to prioritize deportations. President Obama says that’s nonsense. Media reports this week were full of language like this from the Wall Street Journal: “neither a judge’s ruling nor a standoff … Continued

This week, a federal judge temporarily halted President Obama’s most recent executive actions on immigration. But what exactly does that mean? Josh Gerstein of Politico explained the decision as well as anyone: “The injunction paralyzed Wednesday’s planned expansion of Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which started in 2012, and grants temporary work permits … Continued

A week ago, the Center for Immigration Studies made public some government statistics it obtained through a Freedom Of Information Act request from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. USCIS’ data show that since 2009, the executive branch has issued 982,000 new work permits to citizens of other countries who were in the United States illegally. … Continued