“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 …
Immigration Blog Posts
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…
An article in the January 16 Miami Herald calls attention to protests by Cubans who are unhappy with what they see as new hurdles to getting asylum in the United States. (https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/cuba/article23932147…
Declaring that his state has had enough, Gov. Greg Abbott is pulling Texas out of the U.S. refugee resettlement program. Texas, which has accepted more refugees than any other state since 2010, is the first to quit the program. Opting out became an opt…
In recent weeks, U.S.-Iran tensions escalated to new heights. The U.S. killing of Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani in Iraq led Iran to launch more than a dozen missiles at Iraqi military bases housing U.S. troops. These events combined with Iran’s…
New York’s “Green Light” law is flashing a brazen red light at federal immigration enforcement. Authorizing driver’s licenses for illegal aliens, the Empire State joins 14 other states in undermining public safety and national security. As FAIR noted t…