Following in the footsteps of authorities in New York City, Boston, and Portland, San Diego may be next in line in barring federal authorities from arresting immigration lawbreakers on courthouse grounds. Last week, U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw issu…
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A day before they were to take effect, a U.S. district court judge in California blocked rules that would exclude more criminal aliens from gaining asylum in this country. The new policy would have barred migrants charged in document fraud or multiple …
Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) recently introduced H.R. 8791 – the Department of Homeland (DHS) Security Reform Act. This bill would change a number of things about how the department operates, and is largely a House Democratic wish list targeting many…
The internal watchdog at the Department of Labor (DOL) released a report last week which shows how an “aggregation of known vulnerabilities” in 4 of 6 programs used to hire foreign workers leave them “highly susceptible to fraud.” In its review of more…
Canada is launching its boldest immigration plan ever amidst a second wave of COVID-19, in hopes of creating a roadmap to economic recovery. Much like some political officials in the United States, they believe that bringing in more people to compete i…
In a recent opinion piece in Foreign Policy – a publication dedicated primarily to global affairs – Philippe Legrain argues that immigrants are in the forefront of fighting the COVID-19 pandemic and that we need more migration to revive Western economi…
U.S. immigration officials apprehended nearly 70,000 illegal aliens at the southern border last month—the highest monthly total for October in 15 years—despite a number of COVID-19 travel and border restrictions remaining in place. The surge is of sign…
The Trump administration’s Department of Labor (DOL) has implemented new prevailing wage rules that both political parties should get behind – but probably won’t. Taking aim at a system that has crassly commodified H-1B visa workers while displacing qu…
FWD.us, the tech industry’s mass immigration advocacy mouthpiece, has declared with the certainty of scientific fact that our “Economic recovery from COVID depends on a citizenship pathway for 11 million undocumented immigrants.” Of course, the declara…
As the sitting vice president when the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was dreamt up, it was expected that Joe Biden if elected president would act quickly on his pledge to revive DACA. Just how quickly? Well, according to Ron Kla…