The southern border may face a surge in fraudulent asylum cases after the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. District Court in D.C. struck down the Trump administration’s rule requiring asylum seekers to request asylum in another country before …
Asylum & Refugees
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…
Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) calls himself a “China hawk.” And his proposal for the U.S. to grant “automatic asylum” to Hong Kong residents seems, well, bird-brained. The Nebraskan was reacting to Beijing’s latest crackdown on the semi-autonomous Chinese terr…
Addressing asylum abuse remains a top priority for the Trump administration even amidst the COVID-19 outbreak. After months of negotiations, the Trump administration reached an asylum cooperation deal with the Honduran government. The deal makes it eas…
It is appropriate for Americans to empathize with people living in tough conditions. However, according to a 2018 Gallup poll, more than 750 million people worldwide would leave their home countries and move elsewhere if they could. And a sizeable numb…
Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has recently – in the midst of a global Coronavirus epidemic – opened his borders with Greece while encouraging and aiding droves of Middle Eastern migrants to flood Europe. Thus, the anti-Western Erdogan has d…
Most Americans have never heard of Huehuetenango, but Huehuetenangoans have heard of the America, and they’ve been coming here in droves to bring the American dream to their homeland. National Geographic last year published a lengthy article describing…
The U.S.-based non-governmental organization (NGO) Human Rights Watch (HRW) recently published a report on the number of Salvadorans killed after deportation from the United States since 2013. While the findings are alarming at first glance and paint t…
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…
Although it was published in 2017, Douglas Murray,’s The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam is as relevant now as it was three years ago. A British journalist and Associate Editor of The Spectator, Murray is also openly gay and…