Immigration
Immigrants helped build America’s manufacturing industry, and immigration reform is essential to our competitiveness worldwide. We need a system that provides certainty for our businesses and dedicated employees, ensures national security, offers compassion and is consistent with our values and our history as a nation of immigrants.
Some Truck Inspections Halted at Texas Border
April 14, 2022The Wall Street Journal (subscription). What’s happening: “Texas international bridges have faced days of worsening chaos since state inspections focusing on the physical safety of trucks began last week, causing hours- and days-long delays. Monday and Tuesday, Mexican truckers blockaded and completely closed two bridges in protest, in Pharr and El Paso. Both have now…
Legislators Urge Biden to Clear Path for Refugees
April 8, 2022The Washington Post (subscription). What’s happening: “Sixty-five members of Congress, mostly Democrats and a handful of Republicans, asked the president to extend temporary protected status to thousands of Ukrainians who sought refuge at the nation’s ports and borders in recent weeks, expedite immigration processing so that U.S. citizens and green-card holders can bypass the slow-moving…
Congress Votes to Limit Economic Ties with Russia
April 8, 2022The Hill. Ending normal trade relations: “Senators voted 100-0 on two bills. The first, H.R. 6968, codified the Biden administration’s ban on oil imports and other energy products from Russia. New U.S. sanctions: On April 6, the U.S. announced a ban on all new investments in or exports to the Russian Federation by the U.S.
Immigration Deceleration Worsens Labor Shortage
April 7, 2022The Wall Street Journal (subscription). Feeling the pain: The decline “has left the U.S. with 2.4 million fewer immigrants of working age—about 1% of the working-age population—than if pre-2017 immigration trends had continued, according to Giovanni Peri, a labor economist at the University of California, Davis.” Industries that tend to employ more non-U.S.-born employees than…
U.S. Planning New Sanctions on Russia
March 30, 2022Reuters (subscription). What the administration is saying: “In addition to sanctioning companies in sectors that enable the Kremlin’s malign activities, we also plan to take actions to disrupt their critical supply chains,” said Deputy U.S. Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo. “Our goal is to use an integrated approach that includes export controls which will bite over…
New Home Sales Hit Three-Month Low
March 24, 2022data. The numbers: New home sales declined 2.0% in February, to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 772,000 units. January’s sales pace was 788,000 units. New homes sales were 11.4% of U.S. home sales in February, according to NAM Chief Economist Chad Moutray. The median new home sales price settled at $400,600 in February, up…
