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Tech mogul Elon Musk has been crashing at Mar-a-Lago since Donald Trump got re-elected on Nov. 5, with the close confidant to the president-elect paying upward of $2,000 per night to sleep in an elite suite, according to a new report. … Musk — the richest man in the world — had been galivanting around the estate, dining with the soon-to-be 47th president’s family, pausing for lunches on the posh balcony and even going out on the golf course with Trump’s granddaughter Kai. … The X owner has also been purportedly looped in on phone conversations with the president-elect and...

“This is the right position for those who want America to win. For those who want America to lose for their own personal gain, I have no respect. Zero.” See X post for full context.

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President Barack Obama’s Department of Homeland Security wants to give white-collar work-permits to a huge new group of foreign college-graduates, despite the large number of American graduates now stuck in lower-wage jobs, and struggling to pay off college debts. The proposed new regulation, due to be published Dec. 31, will dramatically up the annual inflow of foreign college-grads allowed to take jobs in the United States — and will also make each foreign graduate much more valuable to U.S. employers than many U.S.-born college grads. “Obama has gone the Full Monty to bust the immigration system,” says immigration lawyer John...

In sharp contrast to the Grassley-Durbin bill calling for some useful modifications of the H-1B program, Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) have introduced legislation that would just about terminate the H-1B worker program, as they announced in a press release. This is the most sweeping anti-H-1B legislation to be introduced into Congress in my memory. The Cruz-Sessions bill is in harmony with the Texas senator's overall current immigration policy, hailed as "imperfect but a big step forward" by Mark Krikorian in a posting last month. The Cruz-Sessions legislation, the American Jobs First Act of 2015 (S.2394), would...

"Our goal is clearly NOT to find a qualified U.S. worker....our objective is to get this person a green card...so certainly we are NOT going to try to find a place where applicants world be most numerous." Lawrence M. Lebowitz - Vice President of Marketing - Cohen & Grigsby

US AMERICANS ARE EXPENSIVE. They eat more food, use more petrol and create more greenhouse gas than the rest of us. So when they go to work they need a hefty salary. Not so Indians or Chinese, or Filipinos. Or Cubans or Iraqis come to that. You can get three or four of most of these for what you might have to pay an American. This is why tech firms are keen to ship workers into the States to get them to work for them, rather than some equally-qualified but expensive hamburger-muncher from down the road. But immigration laws pertaining...

PERRY INTENDS TO SIGN HB1 Says he is an optimist and urges legislators to continue their work on schools and taxes. At the SB20 bill signing (renewable energy) this afternoon, Governor Rick Perry announced that he intended to sign HB1, the Texas Education Agency funding he had previously vetoed at the end of the regular session. He added that his staff was still reviewing the bill, but absent any surprises, he intended to sign. The rest of the story, subscribers only