The U.S.-Mexico border remains officially closed to non-essential traffic. But that’s not stopping asylum seekers from pushing on and, in some cases, bringing COVID-19 with them. In the face of federal and state efforts to contain COVID, migrants cross…
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In mid-January, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer insisted that COVID-19 relief was “a top priority.” It should have been, given more than 19 million Americans were collecting unemployment at the beginning of February and 10 percent of the workfor…
A New York Times article says polls showed public opinion “grew considerably more favorable to immigration” during the Trump administration. This trend – if it ever was a trend — isn’t holding up now that Joe Biden is in the Whi…
All loss of human life is tragic, but when those lives are lost due to circumstances that were preventable, it’s not only heartbreaking but infuriating. Thus is the case that horrified the nation earlier this week when illegal immigrants, packed like s…
In January, 37,600 illegal aliens were encountered at the Southwest border by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers, which is nearly 119 percent increase from January 2020. That yearly spike also means CBP were averaging 1,000 encounters per day…
President of Mexico Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador – commonly referred to by his initials, AMLO – suggested creating a new guestworker program that would allow migrant workers from Mexico and other Central American countries to work in the United States t…
On February 28, delivering his first public address since leaving the White House, former President Donald Trump spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida. While the 90-minute-long speech covered a diverse array o…
One of the many unhelpful provisions in President Joe Biden’s massive immigration package would raise the diversity visa lottery’s annual ceiling to 80,000. Tucked into just three lines on Page 217 of the 353-page bill, it opens 25,000 additional slots…
What would be the absolutely last thing to add to a state devastated by natural disasters, where people are literally struggling just to survive? More people. Yet that is exactly what the Biden Administration has chosen to unleash on Texas in the mid…
Attempting to soften bad optics at the southwest border, the Biden administration is dispersing illegal aliens into the U.S. Walking free under catch and release policies, rising numbers of migrants have been congregating in South Texas cities along th…