All Tennessee’s Employment Growth Since 2000 Went to Immigrants

Breitbart — Since 2000, Tennessee’s net employment growth has gone to immigrants, despite the fact that native-born Americans accounted for 60 percent of the state’s working-age population growth, a new report from a limited immigration group reveals. According to a new Center for Immigration Studies analysis of government employment data released Monday, the number of […]

Using Jailed Migrants as a Pool of Cheap Labor

NYT — HOUSTON — The kitchen of the detention center here was bustling as a dozen immigrants boiled beans and grilled hot dogs, preparing lunch for about 900 other detainees. Elsewhere, guards stood sentry and managers took head counts, but the detainees were doing most of the work — mopping bathroom stalls, folding linens, stocking […]

CEO: U.S. Manufacturers Have 600,000 Jobs They Want to Give to Immigrant Workers

THEBLAZE — A major business group said Monday that U.S. manufacturers are hoping an immigration bill will let them give hundreds of thousands of jobs to foreign workers. Jay Timmons, the president and CEO of the National Association of Manufacturers, said he believes an immigration bill will pass near the end of this year. He […]

Report: Obama’s Economy Converts Middle-Class Jobs Into Low-Wage Jobs

DAILYCALLER — Nearly half of the new jobs created since 2008 are low-wage jobs, while 80 percent of the jobs destroyed in the government-inflated real-estate bubble were high-wage or medium-wage jobs, according to a new report by the National Employment Law Project. In effect, almost 2 million well-paid middle-class jobs have been converted into low-wage […]

Silicon Valley Scrambling to Import More Foreign High-Tech Workers

BREITBART — The Financial Times noted that in “booming” Silicon Valley, “engineers are in high demand but short supply,” and companies “are facing the most competitive rush ever to secure US work visas for their foreign hires.” Studies have concluded, though, that reports of a shortage of high-tech workers in America is a myth. One […]

GOP Rep mulls amnesty at townhall — held entirely in Spanish

TEA PARTY — After the sterling conservative voting record he has established during three years in Washington, Representative Mick Mulvaney, a Republican, can take a few political risks in his South Carolina district, one of the most conservative in this reliably Republican state. This week he did just that. [Read More]