Taken together, two reports from the Department of Labor suggested that immigrants were needed to fill the coming worker shortage. The Report on the American Workforce predicted that by 2008 there would be 155 million workers in the United States. The other, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, projected there would be 161 million jobs. ...more

December 20, 2008

It's been said many times in letters to the editor and radio call-in shows: The U.S. government should round up all illegal immigrants and send them home. ...more

September 6, 2008

Union bosses in this region of rural Mississippi long have grumbled that the largest factories here hire illegal immigrants, and the immigrants have been starting to get more overtime and supervisory positions. ...more

August 28, 2008

Mexicans working in other countries are sending less money home, threatening businesses, stalling construction and choking cash flow to hamlets where as much as half the population works in the United States. ...more

August 7, 2008

Plant City is the nation's winter strawberry capital, and local farmers depend on immigrant workers to bring in the crop, a growers group official said. ...more

January 12, 2008

A contractor in Mississippi has withdrawn a government application to allow up to 400 foreign workers to enter the United States to take welding jobs at Tampa's largest shipyard, an official with Florida's Agency for Workforce Innovation said Wednesday. ...more

October 18, 2007