Former Democratic presidential aspirant and U.S. Representative Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) introduced a new bill that would transform the flawed H-2B nonimmigrant guestworker program into a permanent pipeline for low-skilled permanent immigration. This p…
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The Trump administration finalized a major overhaul of the asylum system which will take effect January 11, 2021, just nine days before President-elect Joe Biden is set to take office. The U.S. asylum policies have long been open to rampant abuse and f…
Is the incoming Biden administration up for the challenge of oncoming waves of migrants? Apprehensions on the southern border have risen for six straight months, and smugglers are using more aggressive tactics to move migrants — including sharply…
Countries across the globe are struggling to maneuver the economic destruction caused by the Coronavirus pandemic. One country has taken the initiative to strengthen its immigration laws to preserve employment opportunities for its citizens during a st…
Sir William Arthur Lewis was honored on Google’s Dec. 10 webpage. Given the Nobel Prize-winning British economist’s position on immigration and wages, that day’s “Google Doodle” was a richly ironic icon. In his 1954 treatise, “Development with Unlimite…
The headline in the Philadelphia Inquirer’s opinion page stopped me in my tracks. ‘Habitual drunkenness’ is not a reason to deny someone like me U.S. citizenship, it read. I checked again to make sure that I was actually looking at the most important n…
In what might be a glimpse of things to come, a new migrant caravan has formed in the northern Honduran city of San Pedro de Sula and, according to its participants, is bound for the U.S. Migrants are claiming that they are fleeing the destruction unle…
Despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic which has cost millions of Americans their jobs, the incoming Biden administration seems determined to increase immigration levels. One of the avenues by which they may seek to increase immigration is through an un…
On December 7, the House of Representatives unanimously passed legislation by voice vote to protect nationals of Hong Kong living in the United States. But it is much more than a noble effort to provide relief to people whose homeland is suffering unde…
Throughout the 2020 election cycle, the integrity of our election system was openly questioned by people across the political spectrum. Among the reasons for this skepticism is evidence that significant numbers of noncitizens and illegal aliens are on …