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Is President Obama Right About Engineers?
Significant Numbers Unemployed or Underemployed
By Steven A. Camarota
During a recent video chat session, President Obama told a woman that he could not understand why her engineer husband was unemployed because “industry tells me that they don’t have enough highly skilled engineers.” However, data collected by the Census Bureau shows that there are a total of 1.8m U.S.-born individuals with engineering degrees who are either unemployed, out of the labor market, or not working as engineers. Read More...
The Immigrant Investor (EB-5) Visa
A Program that Is, and Deserves to Be, Failing
By David North
Despite repeated and almost frantic efforts by the DHS to sell the EB-5 visa, the numerical limit of 10,000 green cards a year for investors has yet to be reached; in fact only a small fraction of that number are awarded annually. However, when FY 2011 data become available it is likely that the numbers will be somewhat higher than in the past. Read More...
Some Visas Are More Vulnerable than Others
By David North
There are literally scores of nonimmigrant (temporary) visa categories and millions of applicants with large numbers of government officials deciding, on a case-by-case basis, who should be admitted and who should be refused. How does this part of the process work, and what does the government tell us about it? The basic answers are, “unevenly” and “not much,” but the Center for Immigration Studies has devised an easy-to-understand index. Read More...
Cheap Labor as Cultural Exchange
A Four Part Series
By Jerry Kammer
This series tells the story of the State Department’s troubled Summer Work Travel (SWT) program and its rapid growth over the past 15 years into a $100 million international industry that has spread around the globe.
From an SWT recruitment site.Declining Summer Employment Among American Youths
By Steven A. Camarota
This report finds that fewer than half of native-born Americans ages 16 to 24 worked in the summer of 2011, down from nearly two-thirds in 2000. This decline began long before the current recession and very little of it can be ascribed to summer school or internships. Competition from foreign workers, both permanent and temporary (including through the SWT program), accounts for a significant share of this decline. Read More...
How Obama is Transforming America Through Immigration
By Mark Krikorian
Encounter Broadsides, 2010
In this penetrating Broadside, Mark Krikorian lays out the details of Obama's open-borders approach to immigration and its political consequences. Krikorian, one of the leading critics of current immigration policy, examines the Administration's record of weakening enforcement and describes how legislation crafted by the president's supporters in Congress would ensure new waves of illegal immigration. Krikorian also explains how continued high levels of immigration, regardless of legal status, would progressively move the United States in the direction of more government and less liberty. Read More...
