White House push for H1B visas could affect American workers

OAN Newsroom
UPDATED 4:20 PM PT Sat. Jan. 12, 2019

The Trump administration is making a push to promote a potential path to citizenship for high-skilled foreign workers.

In a tweet on Friday, the president focused his attention to hundreds of thousands of workers living in the country on H1B visas.

The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced that H1B visa application process

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Caravan forming in Honduras, could be larger than previous attempt

 

OAN Newsroom
UPDATED 8:30 AM Sat. Jan. 12, 2019

Another migrant caravan is reportedly forming in Honduras.

The caravan’s organizers plan to leave for the U.S. sometime next week, and they are using social media as a way to spread the word.

Mexico is already sending hundreds of additional law enforcement agents to its southern border, in anticipation of the caravan.

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Trump Wants $5.7 Billion For The Wall. One Month Ago, Chuck Schumer Wanted Much More Than That For Green Energy Subsidies

Michael Bastasch | Energy Editor

  • Democratic New York Sen. Chuck Schumer pushed for billions in green energy subsidies while refusing to fund a border wall.
  • Wind and solar subsidies alone cost nearly six times what President Donald Trump asked for in border wall funding.
  • The ongoing government shutdown is tied with the 1995-1996 shutdown as the longest in history.

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President Trump tours border in Texas, meets with agents, lawmakers & angel families

OAN Newsroom
UPDATED 1:44 PM PT — Thursday, January 10, 2019

President Trump recently reaffirmed his right to declare a national emergency over border security funding, and slammed Democrats for politicizing the issue.

He visited McAllen, Texas Thursday, where he toured the border and met with law enforcement on the front lines.

The president held a roundtable with agents,

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Trump will not go to Switzerland sighting government shutdown requires his attention

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he’s canceling his trip later this month to a global forum in Switzerland because of the partial government shutdown, now in its 20th day.

The president was scheduled to leave Jan. 21 to attend the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, an annual event that attracts high-profile business and political figures, plus thinkers, artists and other elites. He blamed the cancellation on Democrats in Congress, saying they are not willing to negotiate a resolution to the shutdown, which is hung up on Trump’ demand for money to build a wall on the southern border.

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President Trump calls on Democrats for cooperation on border security

OAN Newsroom
UPDATED 8:39 AM PT — Thursday, January 10, 2019

President Trump is threatening to use his executive power to declare the border crisis a national emergency if Congress fails to come to an agreement on funding.

Prior to his departure for Texas, the president insisted a strong border is needed, adding, a wall or steel barrier is essential to border security in order to stop people from entering the country illegally.

The president went on to say he would rather work with Congress in order to secure funding for the wall, however, he is

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Trump prepared to go to southern border in Texas, as the federal shutdown continues

FILE - In this Monday, Jan. 7, 2019, file photo, floodlights from the U.S, illuminate multiple border walls, seen from Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)By Brooke Singman, Alex Pappas 

Just one day after he walked out of a contentious White House meeting with Congressional leaders, President Trump is preparing personally to visit the southern border as he continues to contemplate whether to declare a national emergency to fund a wall there.

Trump is scheduled to visit near the U.S.-Mexico border in McAllen, Texas, a city of 143,000 on the river,

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