Recent news reports on border “encounters” beg a crucial question: What actually happens to encountered migrants? Superficially, more encounters suggest better border enforcement. With sharply higher encounters, the Biden administration must be doing a…
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In January 2022, migrant encounters at the southern border increased by 321 percent from the same time during President Trump’s final full year, according to preliminary data found in a court filing. Immigration authorities reportedly encountered 153,9…
President Joe Biden is changing America’s views on immigration — but not the way he intended. Last year, Gallup polling showed a public that equally favored increases and decreases in immigration. Now the number of people who want less migration …
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has shortened, and weakened, its mission statement to amorphously declare that the agency “upholds America’s promise as a nation of welcome and possibility with fairness, integrity, and respect fo…
04 Feb: A Twice-Deported, Swastika-Scrawling Criminal Alien and Biden’s Foolish Deportation Policies
On January 28, 34-year-old Geraldo Pando was arrested and charged with drawing swastikas on the exterior walls of Union Station in Washington, D.C., only one day after International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Initially, the matter drew significant medi…
The largest guest-worker program in America’s immigration system is getting bigger. Skirting regulatory processes, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced last month that even more jobs will be open to foreign nationals through Optional Pra…
If you live in Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Vermont, or Washington state, you will need to shell out some additional cash if you want a driver’s license that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will accept as valid ID at the airport. The…
A federal court order directed the Biden administration to reimplement the “Remain in Mexico” program in December, but the administration is slow-walking its reimplementation. Also referred to as the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), the Trump-era pr…
Eliminating virtually all immigration enforcement is not the only “accomplishment” the Biden administration has achieved in its first year in office. While illegal migrants were streaming across our borders at a record clip over the past 12 months, the…
Arrests of Haitian migrants at America’s southern border plummeted from 17,600 in September to 1,000 in November. Whether that’s an enduring trend or a temporary lull will depend largely on the Biden administration and Mexico. In the wake of the summer…