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Wages decrease during a slowing economy. Reduce immigration.

Immigration threatens worker bargaining power even more during a slowing economy.

Democrats should not use immigration to cut wages

It troubles me that the Democratic party is intent on sabotaging U.S. workers through mass immigration.

Tight labor markets give workers a fighting chance

As the liberal labor economist Vernon Briggs, Jr. has noted, we are now in another era of large-scale immigration that works against U.S. workers:

Please cosponsor H.R. 4644 to end the OPT program

The Optional Practical Training (OPT) program for foreign graduates of American universities harms all American and legal immigrant graduates, but it harms STEM graduates the most. Currently, all foreign graduates are eligible for a 12-month OPT visa to work in their fields of study after graduation. To make matters much worse, foreign STEM graduates are eligible for an additional 24-month OPT visa.

End the ‘Optional Practical Training’ program

I’m very disturbed by a D.C. court ruling against American tech workers, not least because the Optional Practical Training program is a blatant attack on the American middle class. Moreover, the OPT program unfairly disadvantages Americans in competitive STEM fields where Blacks, Hispanics and older workers often struggle to find opportunities.

Increasing H-2B visas harms American workers

On October 12, the Department of Homeland Security, in conjunction with the Department of Labor, announced that it would increase by 65,000 H-2B visas for fiscal year 2023. This nearly doubles the existing 66,000 cap. There are roughly 50 million working-age Americans without jobs. Americans are available to do the jobs that DHS wants to give away to foreign-born workers, IF they are offered fair wages and working conditions.