On June 30, 2020, You Win USA ringleader and Chinese national, Chao “Edwin” Chen was sentenced in absentia to 37 months in federal prison for operating a large-scale birth tourism scheme out of Orange County, California. In June 2016, Chen pleaded guil…
Immigration Blog Posts
On Tuesday, United States Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents in the Rio Grande Valley Sector of Texas arrested a human smuggler for attempting to re-enter the United States illegally. Ivan Villalobo, a Nicaraguan national, was caught by authorities…
Score another victory for fast-track deportations of those attempting to game the system. On the heels of an appellate court ruling clearing the way for more expedited removals of illegal aliens, the U.S. Supreme Court did the same in a case of a Sri L…
During a recent interview on Fox’s “Mornings with Maria,” host Maria Bartiromo spoke with Richard Trumka – the president of the largest federation of labor unions in the U.S., the AFL-CIO (American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizatio…
The Center for Immigration Studies has reported that, in the final months of 2019, there were 340,810 asylum applications pending with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). USCIS handles asylum applications filed by people who are not curr…
Since the outset of the coronavirus pandemic, many open-borders organizations, such as the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), have filed numerous lawsuits all across the United States seeking to release illegal aliens from detention. These co…
The news Thursday was predictably grim for American workers. Another 4 million people filed first-time unemployment claims, bringing the total number of unemployed to 43 million. Meanwhile, in an alternative universe that exists on Wall Street and in c…
On May 11, the National Public Radio (NPR) published a piece entitled “Will Filing For Unemployment Hurt My Green Card? Legal Immigrants Are Afraid.” The key takeaway here is that, as the title itself suggests, is the claim that because of the Trump ad…
The role of health care professionals in the United States during the COVID-19 outbreak cannot be understated. Their front-line work has saved and treated hundreds of thousands of Americans as the country remains the epicenter for the disease. Without …
FAIR spokesperson Ira Mehlman was recently interviewed for a story airing in Tucson regarding an upcoming Supreme Court decision – set to be announced by June – on Deferred Action for Children of Aliens (DACA) and the impact of that decision on the loc…