The Farm Workforce Modernization Act is going to a vote on Wednesday.
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Mark Krikorian"The last time we did a farmworker amnesty, it resulted in 'one of the most extensive immigration frauds ever perpetrated against the United States government' — according to the New York Times, no less."
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Some of the students who protested former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions' speech at Northwestern University in Illinois last month will receive citations including fines for trying to get in the way of police, university officials announced...
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Mark KrikorianNorthwestern students who allegedly tried disrupting Jeff Sessions' speech hit with citations fxn.ws/2RyjZsc It's about time the people in charge of universities started acting like grown-ups.
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FedEx is busing hundreds of employees four hours each day from Cleveland, Miss., to help sort packages at its air hub in Memphis, Tenn.
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Mark Krikorian" 'I thought FedEx was a godsend,' she said. 'It helped so many people get out of their rut.' " wsj.com/articles/fedex… But by all means, let's have massive new guestworker & immigration programs to make sure companies have no incentive to help people "get out of their rut".
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Consumer preferences and tariffs have led companies to expand their American furniture production. They are finding a dearth of skilled workers to support the renaissance.
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Mark Krikorian"The old-school way used to be that you were lucky to have a job," Mr. Calcagne said. "The way we look at it today is we are lucky to have you here." wsj.com/articles/the-u… I want employers having to hustle to find workers, rather than workers having to hustle to find employment
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Esther Duflo’s false claim about immigration underscores elite ignorance of the issue.
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Mark Krikorian"Esther Duflo is obviously an accomplished scholar, but the Nobel does not make her infallible. In this case, her claim about the National Academies is false — not just one-sided or misleading, but *false*."
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The pending farmworker amnesty drafted by Democrats and business groups is likely to block the development and use of labor-saving machinery.
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Mark Krikorian"The pending farmworker amnesty drafted by Democrats and business groups is likely to block the development and use of labor-saving machinery throughout the labor-intensive farm sector."
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The international language is increasingly driving division
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Mark KrikorianHow Global English became a source of division @UnHerdunherd.com/2019/12/how-gl… "in Korea, for example, commentators speak of an 'English divide' between those who can work for international businesses, or work in tourism, or successfully migrate, and those who cannot."
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Jeff Sessions pretty much single-handedly took down the two most massive globalist pieces of legislation we’ve faced in the past decade. We need him back in the Senate.
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Mark KrikorianAmerica Needs Jeff Sessions breitbart.com/politics/2019/… Amen.
"One man, @jeffsessions, with the courage of his convictions, pretty much single-handedly took down the two most massive globalist pieces of legislation we’ve faced in the past decade."
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Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said this week that the U.S. needs "an awful lot more immigrants rather than less."
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Mark Krikorian"Michael Bloomberg said this week that the U.S. needs 'an awful lot more immigrants rather than less.' " fxn.ws/37G801c That is a clear policy position, a national debate over which would be clarifying. Unfortunately, Trump agrees with Bloomberg on this.
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Donald Trump is talking about labeling the Mexican drug cartels
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Mark Krikorian"But no matter how many Mexican students end up beheaded with chainsaws on video, and no matter how many Americans are murdered, there is no way the Democrats and the corporate GOP would ever stand for a real border."
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ICE ERO deportation officers arrested Feliciano Perez-Bautista, 32, on Tuesday, Nov. 26. Perez-Bautista, a twice removed Mexican national who has pending manslaughter and gang assault charges, was
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Mark KrikorianICE arrests Mexican national with pending manslaughter, gang assault charges; released despite active detainer
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Federal prosecutors have wrapped up what appears to be the largest takedown in the history of smuggling cartel scouts, winning prison sentences for 18 people who were involved in an intricate scheme to spy on Border Patrol movements and help the...
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Mark KrikorianPart of the reason for Trump: "Chief of staff Karl Rove ridiculed the idea that Mexican drug cartels had armed agents on U.S. soil."
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TORREON, Mexico – As Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador marks his first year in office on Sunday, Mexicans’ romance with the left-leaning...
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Mark Krikorian"a surprising number of Mexicans — 40% — said they or a family member plan to migrate to the U.S. The vast majority, 86%, say the reason is jobs, defying ongoing assertions from experts who’d concluded that economic migration from Mexico has peaked."
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In four-day visit to Gulf, France pushed for new Maritime mission and Paris to play larger role in region amid US decline, accusing the US of retreating in face of recent instability, Iran threats.
Five years after a gunman stormed the Family Research Council, planning to smear Chick-fil-A sandwiches in his victims’ faces, the Chick-fil-A Foundation donated $2,500 to the Southern Poverty Law Center — the group credited by the shooter with...
A growing migrant stream from rural Guatemala is bringing ancient Mayan languages to Southwest Florida and beyond. There aren't enough interpreters.
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Mark Krikorian"He told Collier County sheriff’s deputies he brought the child with him from Guatemala so he would 'not have any problems with immigration for entering the U.S.A. illegally.' "
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DHS has granted DACA status to some 825,000 aliens over the last seven years, but more than 172,000 of them, or about 21 percent, have dropped out of the program, leaving about 653,000.