"Grapes of Wrath: the Sequel" is now playing on Capitol Hill. Supported by GOP leadership, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) is promoting his E-Verify program as a "jobs" bill that will ease unemployed Americans' woes. It's telling that the first GOP "jobs plan" introduced this year would send...
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Today, more than three years after our country entered its deepest recession in decades, the single most powerful (and cost-free) step that the federal government could take to spur job growth – fixing our broken immigration system – is a casualty of partisan gridlock.
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It's 3:25 p.m. in a dusty cucumber field in south Georgia. A knot of criminal offenders who spent seven hours in the sun harvesting buckets of vegetables by hand have decided they're calling it quits — exactly as crew leader Benito Mendez predicted in the morning.
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We know about immigrant founders at large technology companies, such as Intel, Google and eBay. Less well known is how many immigrants and children of immigrants have founded other successful American companies.
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U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta is in the unusual position of opposing a bill that would do nationally what he sought to do in Hazleton when he was mayor: require employers to check the immigration status of new workers.
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American farmers and ranchers are confident they produce the best, most affordable food in the world, but they also realize foreign workers are an integral part of production. AFBF Labor Specialist Paul Schlegel talks to AFBF's Johnna Miller about a new law that would have an enormous impact on...
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Jun 20, 2011
The Smith-Grassley push to make the ineffective and burdensome E-Verify program mandatory nationwide continues to generate significant opposition from a broad range of observers, from the editorial board of La Opinion, the largest Spanish-language daily in the U.S., to the Service Employees International Union, to respected columnist Andres Oppenheimer....
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Last week's Postdoc Conference and Career Fair for science and technology researchers had all the staples common at a recruiting event. Potential employers sat at folding tables, panelists discussed entrepreneurial endeavors and editors offered resume writing tips.
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Today in National Review, Mark Krikorian published his response to our long list of criticisms about the mandatory E-Verify bill that Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) are pushing.
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Amid controversy over this week's efforts to revive a federal E-Verify program, farmers are finding themselves with a slight reprieve. The bill, which came back on Tuesday when Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) introduced the Legal Workforce Act, would require businesses in the U.S. to verify the immigration status...
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