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…
Immigration Blog Posts
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…
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…
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…