U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has shortened, and weakened, its mission statement to amorphously declare that the agency “upholds America’s promise as a nation of welcome and possibility with fairness, integrity, and respect fo…
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Sanctuary policies that protect illegal aliens do not exist in a vacuum; they reflect a mindset. What began as an attempt to ensure “law-abiding” illegal aliens that it was safe for them to report crimes or provide information to police has turned into…
Fifty-five years ago – on October 3, 1965 – President Lyndon B. Johnson (D) signed into law the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, also known as the Hart–Celler Act. While to some 1965 may seem like a very long time ago, that year’s immigration l…
President Donald Trump announced that he intended to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court following the passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on September 18. President Trump declared that he would only consider female nominees, and legal…
“No state wears its multicultural veneer more ostentatiously than California,” writes Joel Kotkin, a longtime observer of social trends in the Golden State. In the state’s decades-long effort to shake free of bourgeois unifying concepts like a common c…
Largely absent from the Democratic presidential debates, immigration has been ever-present in a possibly more important venue – the Supreme Court. While oral arguments concerning the fate of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) have …