https://www.numbersusa.com/content/feedtypefilter/blog Verified: RSS Feeds en https://www.numbersusa.com/content/nusablog/beckj/february-8-2012/medias-identity-theft-blindspot.html When the media covers identity theft and fraud as an isolated story, it treats those crimes as serious felonies that adversely impact the lives of victims in real and compelling ways. Young children are often targets, and by the time they realize they have had their identities stolen, the damage has already been done. Attrition through Enforcement Illegal Immigration Interior Enforcement media Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:47:28 -0500 beckj 13052 at https://www.numbersusa.com/content https://www.numbersusa.com/content/nusablog/beckr/february-3-2012/now-we-know-white-house-declares-war-jobless-higher-skilled-american- Want to get your blood pressure up?  Read the transcript of a White House press conference this week about the insistence that the hundreds of thousands of unemployed high-skilled Americans apparently don't exist.   While Pres. High-Tech Worker Visas H-1B visas Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:41:11 -0500 beckr 13047 at https://www.numbersusa.com/content https://www.numbersusa.com/content/nusablog/beckr/february-1-2012/news-pres-obama-18-million-americans-engineering-degrees-dont-have-en Pres. Obama's own staff has produced the data to show that the President was wrong Monday when he said America doesn't have enough engineers, was wrong last week in the State of the Union to say we need more high-skilled foreign workers, and was wrong in sending out spokespersons to claim that not enough Americans are obtaining engineering degrees. engineers unemployed Americans H-1B visas Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:44:27 -0500 beckr 13045 at https://www.numbersusa.com/content https://www.numbersusa.com/content/nusablog/beckr/january-31-2012/fla-vote-winners-are-latino-dignity-self-deportation.html Offered a stark choice on the illegal immigration issue, Florida Latino Republicans today broke nearly 2-1 for the candidate with the firmest opposition to amnesty and strongest support for enforcement.  It was a strong rebuke of the majority of media commentators who insist that Latino-Americans can only be won by promising rewards for lawbreaking. And it was a victory for the concept of self-d 2012 Presidential Election Hispanic Americans Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:33:39 -0500 beckr 13013 at https://www.numbersusa.com/content https://www.numbersusa.com/content/nusablog/drewbueno/january-31-2012/pres-obama-panders-high-tech-lobby-expense-unemployed-americans.h A Google-sponsored town hall event with President Obama Monday evening quickly turned to immigration issues.In the most publicized moment of the event, a woman from Texas asked Pres. Obama why he supported importing more high-tech foreign workers when her husband, who is a semiconductor engineer, has been unemployed for the past three years. Pres. American workers Legal Immigration High-Tech Worker Visas America's Jobless Barack Obama H-1B visas Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:35:09 -0500 drewbueno 13012 at https://www.numbersusa.com/content https://www.numbersusa.com/content/nusablog/dgorak/january-30-2012/us-chamber-commerces-efforts-help-unemployed-veterans-dont-go-far-en Much has been written recently about the dismal unemployment rate (13 percent) among returning veterans, and a recent Washington Times story notes that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, who for years has had a soft spot for illegal aliens, has initiated a drive designed to help returning service members and their spouses find jobs. Illegal Immigration American workers America's Jobless Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:58:54 -0500 dgorak 13006 at https://www.numbersusa.com/content https://www.numbersusa.com/content/nusablog/beckr/january-26-2012/debate-starts-11-million-illegal-grandmothers-vs-11-million-illegal-w Newt & Mitt mixed it up with vigor at the very beginning of tonight's debate over whether opposition to amnesty is "anti-immigrant."  The exchange was the best yet in a debate at finally connecting illegal immigration to the jobs issue. But the heat also cooked up some comments that were scary indicators about expanded legal immigration. 2012 Presidential Elections Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:55:01 -0500 beckr 13004 at https://www.numbersusa.com/content https://www.numbersusa.com/content/nusablog/beckr/january-24-2012/obama-speech-brags-about-3-million-new-jobs-fails-mention-3-million-n Compared to the heavy-metal terror I used to feel listening to Pres. Bush's State of the Union immigratiion appeals, Pres. DREAM Act jobs unemployed Americans amnesty Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:50:39 -0500 beckr 12978 at https://www.numbersusa.com/content https://www.numbersusa.com/content/nusablog/beckr/january-24-2012/romney-shocks-news-media-numbersusas-basic-self-deportation-plan.html In the Tampa Bay debate Monday night, Mitt Romney confounded wide swaths of the internet with a concept that we've been trying for years to persuade the news media to acknowledge:  A concept of handling the illegal alien population with something between mass legalization and mass deportation.  Simply put, you take away the things that drew illegal aliens here and let most of them self-deport. 2012 Presidential Election Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:51:25 -0500 beckr 12950 at https://www.numbersusa.com/content https://www.numbersusa.com/content/nusablog/beckr/january-20-2012/weighing-some-confusing-immigration-comments-final-south-carolina-deb An audience member asked a great question:  How would the candidates ensure that Americans are first in line for jobs? 2012 Presidential Election Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:39:52 -0500 beckr 12876 at https://www.numbersusa.com/content