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…
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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…
As America clamps down on non-essential travel within its borders, transcontinental flights continue to arrive from nations suffering coronavirus outbreaks. In the two months since President Donald Trump imposed a travel ban on China, 279 flights from …
As coronavirus spreads in the Southwest, the Border Patrol is quickly turning back illegal aliens who enter the U.S. Under expedited deportation procedures, migrants are being expelled to Mexico in an average of 96 minutes. U.S. agents are processing a…
“I will build a great, great wall on our southern border and I’ll have Mexico pay for that wall.” This signature line came from President Donald Trump during a border security conversation in 2015. Since taking office in 2016, the Trump administration …
Three members of a Philippines church, who exploited religious workers on R-1 visas and preyed on the charity of generous Americans, were indicted last month on charges of human trafficking, forced labor and marriage fraud. Guia Cabactulan, Marissa Due…
Some border-state members of Congress are getting restless as the coronavirus starts to surface in Mexico. “Given the porous nature of our border, and the continued lack of operational control, it is foreseeable, indeed predictable, that any outbreak i…
Can running migrants across the border be a humane enterprise that is “mutually beneficial” to immigrants and traffickers alike? A new paper by the Migration Policy Institute concludes that the answer is a complicated yes. “Despite the illicit nature o…
The American Voter was the Real Loser of the Las Vegas Debate The Democratic presidential debate moderators seemed to have forgotten that they sitting in Nevada, a state in which nearly 20 percent of the residents are foreign-born and a state which has…