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Note that on June 25 the Supreme Court allowed the administration to proceed with terminating Haiti’s TPS designation.

Haitian TPS workers are heavily concentrated in a small number of occupations. Of the estimated 200,000 Haitian TPS beneficiaries who are employed in the United States, about 11% work as cooks or restaurant servers, compared with 2.4% of the total U.S....


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A tiny share of persons detained by Dept, of Homeland Security are violent criminals.

ABC has examined DHS databases on persons detained or deported. I am skeptical of the accuracy of


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Farm labor particularly in the California produce industry is heavily foreign born and unauthorized. The USDA’s national crop workforce estimated as of January, 2025: “In 2020–22, 32% of crop farmworkers were U.S. born, 7% were immigrants who had obtained U.S. citizenship, 19% were other authorized immigrants (primarily permanent residents or green-card holders), and the rema...


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What American Exceptionalism Really Means

There is a term so often used to describe our nation and those who have shaped it: American exceptionalism. American exceptionalism, the conventional wisdom tells us, makes our freedom a little more free, is how we dug the Erie Canal and irrigated the West, is why children in faraway lands grow up dreaming of on...


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Classify this posting as yet another view of a 30 years plus phenomenon of the transnational Indian IT workforce.

Despite a formal cap of 85,000 on new H-1B workers, the entirely actively working H-1B...


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