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Indian-born CEOs are closing their firms and fleeing back to India to escape charges of fraud in the annual lotteries for visas to import H-1B foreign contract workers, says a lawyer for many Indian-owned subcontractors and visa workers.

Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA), Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), and 12 other GOP legislators are pushing legislation that would help Fortune 500 companies hire foreign visa-workers instead of hiring the American graduates who might vote for the GOP.

President Joe Biden’s draft amnesty bill includes at least four legal changes that pressure and reward CEOs for importing foreign workers to take the white-collar careers needed by U.S. graduates, including the millions of young graduates who voted for Biden.

Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren will put her Silicon Valley version of GOP Sen. Mike Lee’s S.386 green card giveaway bill into the year-end omnibus bill — if top GOP leaders stand aside, say sources and lobbyists.

President Donald Trump has “shattered” Washington D.C.’s bipartisan consensus on immigration, says Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post newspaper.

The White House is touting President Donald Trump’s curbs on the mass replacement of Americans by H-1B visa workers. raising some hopes among reformers that the President may push the issue in the final weeks of the campaign.

The Department of Homeland Security must be dismantled and partially defunded, says an op-ed by the far-left director of the American Civil Liberties Union.

A Rasmussen poll shows two-to-one public opposition among swing voters to the universities’ little known Optional Practical Training (OPT) program, which quietly puts 500,000 foreign graduates into the starter jobs needed by American graduates each year.

Universities and migration advocates are denouncing the administration’s decision to revive a rule that denies student visas and work permits to migrants who enroll in online-only U.S. colleges.

A California state agency is recognizing the quiet spread of India’s ancient caste discrimination into America’s Fortune 500 professional workplaces.

Twenty-one GOP legislators asked President Donald Trump to preserve a program that rewards Fortune 500 companies that hire foreign graduates instead of American graduates from their own heartland GOP districts.  

Federal agencies will open “hundreds and thousands” to American job-seekers if they don’t extend work permits for foreign visa workers, says a plea from advocacy groups funded by Mike Bloomberg, the Koch networks, and many Fortune 500 companies.

The Supreme Court voted 5:4 against immigration lawyers who argued their legal immigrant client should not be deported after a conviction on drug charges. 

U.S. and foreign companies have asked for H-1B visas to import 275,000 foreign graduates for white-collar jobs, according to an April 1 statement from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency.

Mykala Steadman of the Young Leaders Program at The Heritage Foundation writes in the Daily Signal about how president and CEO of Job Creators Network Alfredo Ortiz became a champion of capitalism and small business and went after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortiz.