The Depart- ment of Home- land Security recorded a record-shattering 178,840 illegal alien encounters at the border this past December, closing out the 2021 calendar year with an astonishing total of approximately 2.03 million encounters with illegal aliens.
The Biden Adminis- tration is expec- ted to unveil a new federal program bankrolled by American taxpayers that will provide “legal services” to illegal aliens who unlawfully crossed the southern border, including the record-shattering two million aliens who crossed the border in 2021.
The Rio Grande border sector has led the other eight sectors in border apprehensions during the ongoing border crisis, but that distinction appears to be shifting to the Del Rio border sector according to recent apprehension numbers. The Del Rio sector, which lies east of the Big Bend National Park to Laredo, Texas, saw 4,000 apprehensions of illegal border crossers over the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday weekend.
Our National Parks and protected areas are revealing their fragility as pressures from our growing immigration-driven population increase. Unprotected areas are part of the larger ecosystems of protected land, and urban sprawl brings with it habitat loss and increasingly fragmented landscapes along with a myriad of other issues. Between the years 1940-2000, 28 million housing units were built within 50 km of protected areas in the United States. If this trend continues, this number will increase by another million by 2030, many of which will be built within 1 km of protected areas.
The benefits of an immigration policy that prioritizes per capita prosperity over GDP include higher wages, longer productive lives, more intergenerational caregiving among families, shorter commutes, and more breathing room.
Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, frequently uses the retort "More Immigration!" whenever a problem facing the U.S. is raised in the media. He uses it tongue in cheek, of course, to mock those, like Kelsey Norman in Foreign Affairs, who do make immigration the panacea that will save Americans from ourselves.
Whenever wages threaten to rise, we’re advised that the best way to keep labor costs down is to increase immigration.
The denial rate for H-1B visa applications dropped to only 4% in FY2021 after reaching a rate of 24% in FY2018. The dramatic change in the denial rate demonstrates the key difference between Pres. Trump's 'America First' immigration policy versus Pres. Biden's policy, which is much more favorable for foreign workers and the companies that seek them.
Earlier this week, U.S. Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), the ranking member of the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, released newly obtained data from the Department of Homeland Security exposing the complete failures of the Biden Administration’s disastrous border policies.
The Inspector General for the Department of Homeland Security found rampant fraud over the years in the U-Visa program that provides a visa to illegal alien victims of crime. The Inspector General also found that the program provides little assistance to local police in the investigation of crimes, despite claims from the program's supporters.