Immigration Accountability Project
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The Immigration Accountability Project educates the public on the actions, votes, and statements of elected officials on the issue of immigration.
Washington D.C.
Joined October 2023
IAP had the honor of attending the signing ceremony for the Laken Riley Act this afternoon. Our hearts go out to all the Angel Families across America.❤️🩹 Thanks to @RepMikeCollins, @SenKatieBritt, and @realDonaldTrump for getting this bill across the finish line and signed into
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Why would @realDonaldTrump nominate someone for Labor Secretary who is for amnesty for illegal aliens? She cosponsored the Dems’ American Dream and Promise Act, as well as the DIGNITY Act, both straight up amnesties. Someone is not properly vetting these people!.
🚨 NEW: President Trump announces the nomination of Congresswoman @LChavezDeRemer as Secretary of Labor.
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Um, no. Most of us actually want America to remain America. We are a nation, with a shared culture and traditions. We are not an economic zone to enrich the rest of the world’s workers. Thanks, but no thanks.
I’d love to see America open up its borders even more to high-skilled immigration. Making it easier for the most talented people in the world to build in this country is a no-brainer to grow the economy and fix the population crisis. Here are 5 changes I’d love to see:.
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When you come here on a TEMPORARY work visa like the H-1B, you have no right to “expect” to get permanent residency ever, let alone in within several years. You made a choice to bring your children here on your TEMPORARY visa, so they have no right to expect to stay permanently,.
H-1B families expect to come here and get permanent residency within several years. But the government pulls the rug out from under them and shifts the projected wait to sometimes 10 years later. A kid raised in the US legally at a young should be able to remain in the US. They.
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LOL. America: End the H-1B program. You: Here’s an idea, let’s SUPERSIZE the H-1B program and increase green cards so we can screw even MORE American workers. Read the room, bro.
.@InnovateEconomy has released a report on important reforms to our immigration system. Two top green card reforms include allowing children of long term visa holders raised in America to stay to retain their talents and eliminating per-country caps.
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They also downplay the fact that most of them never leave, so that 85K is compounded annually.
Immigration lawyers may downplay the significance of 85K H-1B visas by claiming it's a small number, yet if you look at their lobbying initiatives, they hope to triple that quota. The public isn't fooled; they see through this contradiction.
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@Cloudwatch199 LOL. Yeah, I’m sure the CCP and Iranian lobbies are super duper concerned about American workers being replaced by foreign workers. You know who actually is concerned about that? Americans. And we don’t care what nationality the foreign workers are. We don’t want them replacing.
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Immigration to the US *should* be difficult. Hundreds of millions of people want to come here. We have every right to be extremely selective about who we admit. We need to be a lot more selective than we have been for the last several decades.
Somehow we still issue over 1.2M green cards and over 1M work visas every year despite “immigration being so difficult”.
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Give me a break! Cheap foreign labor is NOT driving America’s success. Never has, never will.
The lack of awareness surrounding the H-1B visa program and its profound impact on our country is deeply concerning. While there is a need for reform to better protect workers, it’s crucial to understand that America’s success has long been driven by the invaluable contributions.
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.@SenatorLankford @SenMikeRounds So much for liars, internet rumors, and Russian propaganda. Everything we reported would be in the bill three weeks ago, is in the bill. We'll be awaiting your apologies.
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@RepSherrill “Immigrant communities” have nothing to fear from the Trump Admin, since “immigrants” are lawful PERMANENT residents. Aliens with TEMPORARY Protected Status have no right to remain here permanently. See how that works?.
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America needs to move to a merit-based immigration system, but the fact is that most of the foreigners who came to the US on nonimmigrant visas, like H-1B, are not highly skilled professionals. They are taking jobs that Americans are willing and qualified to do, but employers.
green card backlog is a significant issue in the U.S. immigration system, particularly affecting highly skilled professionals from India and China. Over 1.2 million Indians are waiting for employment-based green cards, with @VivekGRamaswamy @elonmusk.
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So a program Congress never authorized, and that rewards employers for hiring foreign students instead of American ones, has created a national security threat. Seems like an easy problem to fix. End OPT.
Controversial DHS Program Allows Foreign Students to Train in Sensitive Fields. From nuclear engineering to undersea warfare, from cyber warfare to combat systems engineering, OPT presents a growing national security threat that must be addressed.
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Impeached @SecMayorkas announced two rules today that make it easier for employers to replace Americans with cheaper, foreign workers. You can’t overestimate how much these people hate Americans. @JudiciaryGOP
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The Dignity Act is amnesty for illegal aliens and an increase in legal immigration. That’s a hard NO from us.
Do you support raising immigration country caps?. @elonmusk, @VivekGRamaswamy, & @realDonaldTrump are right. But we must tackle country caps (currently 7%) & green card backlogs (years/decades). The Dignity Act addresses these to increase American prosperity & competitiveness.
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We want America to be America, not an economic playground for the world’s workers.
@iamyesyouareno @MarioNawfal It comes down to this: do you want America to WIN or do you want America to LOSE. If you force the world’s best talent to play for the other side, America will LOSE. End of story.
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.@SenatorLankford It's time to walk away from the border deal. You're doing more harm than good. #BorderCrisis #NoSecurityNoFunding.
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Wrong. They should have incentivized the hiring and training of Americans.
@I_A_Project Right, they should have increased green cards instead of distorting the H-1B.
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It’s time for Congress to pass the Birthright Citizenship Act.
"After being granted automatic citizenship, these children can initiate chain migration with their family members. This is an exportation of the 14th amendment never intended by the founders.” - @RepRalphNorman .
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Same will be true of America, if we continue mass immigration.
@thatsKAIZEN Countries just become inauthentic theme parks of what they used to be.
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And OPT, which was never approved by Congress, makes the student visa program and the H-1B program much worse. What kind of nation actually subsidizes the employment of foreign workers over its own citizens?.
Student Visa program hurts American kids and is an obvious threat to US national security. Like H1B program, only purpose is to enrich political and corporate establishment.
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Ok. How many? You say the *who* is the “best and brightest.” Now you need to answer the *how many.* Is it 5,000/year? 10,000/year? 100,000/year? 1,000,000/year?.
My friend Sriram is America First. For USA to have the highest standard of living, generous govt services, and strongest military, we need to recruit the best and brightest and build the best companies. I’m against more low-end H1B immigrants; but let’s win at the talent game.
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Interesting that the FBI doesn’t mention until the end of the press release that this “California man” is actually a citizen of China who our government clearly didn’t vet properly when it allowed him to obtain lawful permanent resident status here.
Yinpiao Zhou, 39, of Brentwood, CA, was arrested today on a federal criminal complaint for allegedly flying a #drone over and taking photographs of Vandenberg Space Force Base. Details:
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Actually, Americans built this nation. Immigrants certainly have contributed in many ways, thanks to our (overly) generous immigration system. Despite the enormous size of your ego, we’d be fine without you.
@I_A_Project @bimmerboro America is a nation , a capitalist nation. Where immigrants have and have always built this nation. You can cry all you want , but I have done more for this country than you ever would in your life.
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Weird that Americans actually did these jobs before mass immigration…when they paid a livable wage.
I've been traveling the US speaking to Trump supporters abt mass deportations. What's been striking is the widespread understanding that it would be catastrophic. Mark: "If we didn’t have the immigrant workforce that we have, the hotel and restaurant industry would collapse. "
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.@SenatorLankford Border deal would:. 1) Increase green cards by 50,000/year. 2) Work permits for adult children of H-1B holders. 3) Immediate work permits to every illegal alien released from custody. 4) Taxpayer funded lawyers to certain UACs and mentally incompetent aliens. 5).
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This is really important. President Trump MUST deliver on mass deportations. Our country depends on it. The Republican donor class is going to have to suck it up and face the fact that American workers MUST COME FIRST.
Reminder to all in GOP politics:. Trump won the electoral college in 2016 on securing the border. Trump won the popular vote in an *electoral landslide* on mass deportation. Stop playing nice on immigration—foreign nationals are owed nothing, illegal aliens are owed even less!
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The question remains: How many? There are millions of “talented, hardworking and honest people” in the world who would love to come to the US. How many should we take?.
@kirillzzy Legal immigration of talented, hardworking and honest people will be expedited in this administration.
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I guess we need to find out what “a lot of people” means. America can handle letting in 100,000 certified geniuses. We absolutely cannot handle continuing to let in 1,100,000 mostly poor and uneducated legal immigrants, as we have for the past 30 years. SECURE THE BORDER, THEN.
In private speech, Trump reiterates to Mike Johnson that he plans to “let a lot of people come in” as legal immigrants in his second term. Follow: @AFpost
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More reason to dismantle the foreign student visa program.
@I_A_Project Universities make a lot of money from foreign students, especially from China. They often pay the full tuition.
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Let’s see. Mass deportations or amnesty? I’m gonna go ahead and stick with mass deportations. How about you?.
Immigration economics expert: Congress has a choice. Instead of mass deportation, we can instead “crack down on exploitation, strengthen millions of families, and build American prosperity” by providing undocumented immigrants a way to fix their papers.
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Ok, so how many? There are billions of people in the world, probably millions who are talented. How many do you want to bring here? We already bring in an average of 1.1 MILLION legal immigrants every year. Bringing in the brightest 5,000 is a LOT different from bringing in 1.1.
I’d argue this is one of the best America First policies. We want the best talent in the world working on the important problems here. The brightest minds exist everywhere, attracting them to America should be a paramount issue.
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American jobs for American workers.
Bannon: I’m also for big restrictions on legal immigration. Every college and engineering school is flooded with foreign students taking American jobs. American jobs should be for Americans. President Trump and I disagree on this. He said every college and community college
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America First means Americans First.
NEW: Trump's immigration team is having "a heated debate" over adding additional vetting to H1B applications as a means to grind the program to a halt, per a source with direct knowledge of the discussion. The proposal is facing stiff opposition from DOGE.
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Yes, all the gov’t officials should be prosecuted, AND all the individuals who committed marriage fraud should be prosecuted and the foreign nationals deported.
Wanda Geter-Pataky conducted hundreds of sham marriages between Indian immigrants and local girls (who got paid thousands of dollars). Connecticut punished the whistleblower for violating the state's sanctuary state policies.
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Our foreign student visa program is a mess. Foreign students who are suspended for any reason should have to return to their home country immediately. Foreign students who violate our laws, for example by assaulting cops, should have to return home immediately.
DISGUSTING: CNN wrote a puff piece about Cornell student Momodou Taal. CNN said Taal was nearly suspended for “protesting for the civilians in Palestine.”. In reality, he was suspended for assaulting a police officer and antisemitic tweets. CNN’s bias could not be clearer.
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You know what WILL solve the “undocumented immigrant” (illegal alien) problem? Mass deportations, which is exactly what America voted for in November.
Geraldo Rivera threatens to punch top Trump advisor Stephen Miller in the nose for deporting illegal immigrants. Rivera is a 5 foot, 9 inch tall, 81-year-old, self-admittedly “frail” man.
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The Dignity Act is 100% amnesty for illegal aliens. Americans aren’t buying what you’re selling, @RepMariaSalazar. Been there, done that.
Matt Gaetz has been one of most intelligent members in Congress. We will miss his debates!. 1. Dignity Act is not amnesty. It’s the opposite. Amnesty is what we have now. Illegals have.free roads,.free schools,.free hospitals. No more.
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The OPT program, like DACA, was created by executive fiat. Congress should eliminate it, if President Trump doesn’t.
The US government provides employers an incentive to hire foreign student grads over American grads:. Both the employer and foreign grad on OPT work permits are exempt from paying Medicare and Social Security taxes. This results in a labor cost savings of 15%! Why hire American?
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US taxpayers should not have to subsidize foreign workers in any way, shape, or form. The only reason to admit foreigners into the US is if they benefit us!.
@I_A_Project The Social Security Trust Fund has been mismanaged by Fed policy as mandated by Congress. There is justification for exempting a foreign students earnings from employment taxes (they most likely will not get benefits). There is no justification to exempt the employer portion.
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Surprise, surprise. There is rampant fraud in our foreign student visa program. @JonFeere reports on it here:
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No one has caused more long-term damage to America than impeached @SecMayorkas. He MUST be held accountable.
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I mean, ok, so Senate Republicans missed the entire 2024 campaign cycle, where every Dem used the Lankford bill as their primary immigration talking point. But sure, let’s try it again. Hopefully, this time they’ll keep it secret FOREVER.
Senate Republicans remain undefeated as the most out of touch group of humans in America. (Besides the women of The View.)
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Eye-opening reporting here. We already knew that no one leaves China without the knowledge of the CCP, but now we know that the CCP is orchestrating it, down to the last detail. Why? That’s the million dollar question we better answer fast. Glad @RepDanBishop is on the case!.
Explosive report from @LenczyckiPhilip, who spent months in Chinese Telegram channels that help migrants cross the southern border. Behind all of this is Jack W, who claims to be a 'Cyber Police' agent in China, who is guiding the Chinese nationals.
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Setting aside my absolute disgust for this child’s parents, who placed him in the hands of smugglers, he should be immediately reunited with them for the return trip to El Salvador. Remember: any American parent who did this would go to jail.
NEW: Crying 10-year-old boy found alone by Texas State Troopers on Thanksgiving at the US border after human smugglers abandoned him. The El Salvador boy was sobbing, trying to find his parents who had already entered the country. “As many of us are celebrating Thanksgiving
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That’s a load of crap. Take away the universities’ incentives to bring in (and lobby for more) foreign students and that would turn around immediately.
@fluminabbylonis @I_A_Project Have you walked the halls of Grad School programs in Engineering for the top twenty US universities? Do you know who does basic / fundamental research? Who maintains the lab equipment? Who runs the labs for undergrads (including grading)? The US kids are not willing to put in 1/.
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Amen! It’s time to put “Americans First.”.
Making it affordable for a hardworking young person to afford a family is the core of “America First.” . Too many have bought the lie that the path to prosperity is to flood the nation with cheap labor. In the next administration, we’ll fight for American workers.
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America, please pay attention! The “border bill” @SenSchumer plans to bring to the Senate floor is a FARCE! It codifies the current border crisis, so we are LEGALLY BOUND to accept current levels of illegal immigration. ARE YOU OK WITH THAT??.@SenMikeLee.
The fake border bill will fail, again, because it does nothing to seriously secure the border—just cement outrageous levels of illegal immigration. Ironically, some Democrats will vote against it, because even pretending to limit illegal immigration is a step too far for them.
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The amnesty attempt in 2019 failed, as it should have, and resulted in a surge of unaccompanied alien children at the border. Amnesty rewards law breaking and incentivizes more of it.
President-elect Donald Trump says that he wants to work with Democrats on a "plan" to help illegal immigrants who entered the U.S. as minors and were protected from deportation under an Obama-era order -- echoing a similar push he attempted in 2019
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It wasn’t enough that they were broadcasting the welcome message to the entire world. Whoever authorized spending OUR money to do this needs to be held accountable.
The Biden Administration ran an advertising campaign in Haiti on how to leave Haiti and come to the United States. They calculated 600,000 listeners/viewers per broadcast. Haiti has a population of ~12M.
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NO! The proper response to India if it refuses to take its nationals back is to cut off ALL visas. Other countries have no right to dictate our immigration policies.
THE CATCH: India seeks U.S. protection of legal immigration channels, particularly student visas and the H-1B program, which accounted for nearly 75% of the 386,000 visas granted to Indian citizens in 2023. “In return for its cooperation, India hopes that the Trump
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While @SenatorLankford implies in his press release that the bill includes additional wall funding, Sec. 205 (p. 76) actually rescinds existing wall funding and moves the deadline by which it must be used to FY2028 (so Mayorkas never has to build any more wall!).
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It’s weird that the IRS has determined that IAP is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, but @Microsoft thinks it has a say. What’s up with this, Microsoft? Why do you get to make us “ineligible” for nonprofit status without even telling us why?
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No amnesty. If you reward lawbreakers, you get more law breaking. Just ask California and New York.
@I_A_Project @realDonaldTrump Because there will also need to be amnesty for some of the illegal immigrants. They are starting with criminals and non productive and then will need to look at what policies etc for the productive immigrants to become citizens. Have some vision and foresight.
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This would mean that America is finally joining the rest of the developed world (except Canada). It’s long past time to end birthright citizenship!.
BREAKING NEWS: Donald Trump says on day 1 of his administration he will end birthright citizenship for illegal aliens known as “anchor babies.” . He will also end “birth tourism” which is when immigrants travel to America to have a baby just so they can be citizens. This will
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We don’t actually want you to reshape the Western world. We’re good. Feel free to take your globalism elsewhere.
After 31 years, 4 months, and 28 days—11,473 days—I’m finally documented. Arriving in Mexico City, I was flooded with emotions and questions: What is home? Who am I without America? What if American citizenship is no longer my goal?. To watch the full episode of this journey,
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There would be no need for mass deportations if the Biden Administration hadn’t opened our borders and let millions of illegal aliens into our country. Actions have consequences.
A mass deportation policy would rip apart American families and devastate our economy. It's also such a centerpiece of the Republican Party agenda that they had literal signs made.
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@Cloudwatch199 😂So you’re saying the CCP and Iranian lobbies identify themselves in their posts? Doesn’t seem like you’d need the FBI to prove anything, if that’s the case.
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Exactly! E-Verify is free, easy to use, and reliable (I know, shocking for a gov’t tool, but true!). Every employer in the US should be using it.
At least 100 workers at NYC's Tin Building lose jobs after employment authorization check. This is why you should always do E-Verify checks when you first hire someone, not wait til they've settled into the job and you've become dependent on them.
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Yep. And they should notify the rightful owners of any stolen SSNs they come across, since it currently is SSA’s policy NOT to inform victims of identity theft!.
Trump should conduct a nationwide check of SSN usage and prosecute all illegal aliens who are using false credentials. @MarkSKrikorian @NumbersUSA @Roy_H_Beck @ryfun @Drewbueno @AnnCoulter
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.@SenMikeLee is pushing for a vote on an amendment to the FAA reauthorization bill that would effectively prohibit airlines and TSA from allowing illegal aliens and parolees to board airplanes using the CBP-One app, a Notice to Appear (in immigration court), or a Notice to Report.
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We are all for a moratorium. America needs to have a national debate about what our immigration policy should be—how many and who. That can only happen after our border is completely secured in a way that can’t be undone by future administrations.
No, we need to stop immigration period. We've seen that the government cant be trusted with enforcing immigration laws in any nuanced manner.
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Remember when Trump-45 tried to add a citizenship question to the Census and SCOTUS blocked it? Congress could require that question AND require the Census Bureau to apportion based on only US citizens.
The Director of the US Census Bureau just admitted to us that criminal illegal aliens are counted in the US Census.
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As long as Big Business supports amnesty for illegal aliens and the continued replacement of American workers with cheap, foreign labor, they don’t deserve a seat at the table. They shouldn’t even be in the same town as the table.
The Business Community Turned on MAGA in Partnership with the Left in 2020/2021–That won’t be Forgotten—.Big Business Cannot be Trusted .
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I know this will come as a shock to the elites who’ve never done hard work, but Americans have been growing and picking our food and building our houses for generations. The fact that the elites seem to want to return to the days of slavery and indentured servitude is shameful.
Would love to hear from a Republican worried about food or housing costs how exactly deporting 10 million people who grow and pick our food and build our houses is going to lower food or housing costs.
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Hey @TheJusticeDept, pretty sure this is illegal.
JUST IN: Arlington's Washington-Liberty High School is promoting a scholarship exclusively for "DACA or TPS recipients, asylum seekers, and students with undocumented status," EdNews Virginia has learned.
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You mean people like my brother, who’s a PhD in engineering? Those Americans?.
@TheIvyExile @I_A_Project Ha ha . Just go speak with some American high school kids. No one wants to be the nerd with pocket squares, glasses, years of differential equations analysis and then low salaries / low appeal to the ladies - while kids in sports, law, advertising and real estate make 3X ~ 5X.
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@SkiBohemia @realDonaldTrump The Labor Department plays a major role in immigration. They determine when foreign workers are *needed* to fill American jobs.
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Amen. There is no question at all that DACA was unlawful. President Obama admitted it himself.
VICTORY: Today, we secured a major victory in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which affirmed a district court’s ruling that the Biden Administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (“DACA”) policy is unlawful. This is a win for Texas. I am pleased the.
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