A bill that would force employers to actually try hiring an American before importing labor, set real wage floors, and cut chain migration by roughly 275,000 green cards a year. Unlike the maximalist bills I've panned this week, this one might actually work.
On September 30, 2026, Florida's minimum wage hits $15 an hour — a look at what that number is actually worth against Florida rent.
TRAC's June 2026 numbers put the immigration court backlog at roughly 3.2 million pending cases — record closures haven't stopped the pile from growing.
Florida's minimum wage hits $15 on September 30 — the final step of a six-year phase-in voters approved in 2020. It's a real raise for real workers. It's also arriving into an inflation environment that's already spent it.
Trump reshuffled ICE's top enforcement leadership after months of frustration that arrests weren't hitting the demanded pace.
The Department of Labor's own estimate: employers underpay H-1B workers by $15.6 billion a year. The firms doing most of that underpaying aren't secret — they're some of the largest IT outsourcers on earth, and they're not hiding it.
A screening system built to flag terrorism risk is now feeding ICE the travel records of visa holders — including people with pending green cards and active work permits. That mission creep should worry conservatives too.
EPI's own numbers show tariffs without union bargaining power don't translate into worker wage gains, while consumer prices took a real hit.
A senior engineer in India makes $16,000 to $28,000 a year. The same role here pays around $58,000. That gap doesn't need a conspiracy to explain what H-1B remote work has done to American tech wages — it just needs arithmetic.
A Utah Republican and an Arizona Democrat co-sponsored a bill letting states sponsor their own workforce visas, and almost nobody covered it.