After a marathon 15-hour vote-a-rama , the U.S. Senate passed a budget resolution by a vote of 51-50, with Vice President Kamala Harris casting the tie-breaking vote. Because the Senate considered the bill under the budget reconciliation process, Democ…
Immigration Blog Posts
Frustrated by the release of hundreds of criminal illegal aliens in North Carolina, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is posting some of their mug shots on billboards around Charlotte and Asheville. “These individuals were previously arres…
President-elect Joe Biden could save $2.6 billion if he keeps his pledge to end construction of the southern border wall, according to an Army Corps of Engineers estimate. But media reports glossed over, or simply ignored, the much bigger costs of such…
Since last year, President Donald Trump has worked with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez-Obrador to reduce the number of migrants arriving in the United States from Central America and other parts of the world. The initial indication is that is th…
Despite serving as a defining political issue in the 2016 general election, immigration has taken a back seat in 2020. In the first two nationally televised presidential and vice-presidential debates, debate moderators Chris Wallace and Susan Page fail…
The administration of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) diverted more than $4 million from a regional development fund to immigration containment last year, according to a new report from the Associated Press (AP). The diversion of f…
U.S. District Judge George Daniels clearly has a thing about the Trump administration’s public charge rule for immigrants. For the second time in less than a year, Daniels knocked down administration efforts to strengthen the rules. Though his judicial…
“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…
Mike Hethmon was a long-time attorney with the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI), an affiliate of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). News that he was killed this weekend in a car wreck, at the hands of an alleged criminally ne…
The coronavirus outbreak has spurred reckless calls from members of Congress to release detainees from Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) custody over concerns of spreading the virus. Now, a case in California is making it increasingly…