The Daily Caller reports the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) will propose a rule that stops illegal immigrants from using loopholes to obtain public housing. Millions of citizens are currently waiting for assistance so the rule is expected to free up housing units they can use.
Most who travel abroad are well aware of State Department travel warnings, which inform citizens about dangers related to crime and terrorism in other countries. But have you ever seen an advisory designed to warn criminals not to travel to rule-of-law states in our own country? That’s essentially what the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and other open border groups sought when they issued a travel warning to steer illegal-alien criminals away from Florida.
Attorney General William Barr yesterday ruled that asylum seekers who illegally cross the border between ports of entry are not eligible for bond and must remain in detention. The decision does not affect unaccompanied migrant children or “family units,” who are exempt from expedited removal.
Frum addressed all of Vargas' questions and charges during the interview, but the real conflict was between one man's desire to engage on the question of limits and another man's desire to avoid it.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) yesterday said it is “way past time” for Republicans and Democrats to negotiate a solution for the border crisis. Alluding to the recent DHS personnel shakeup, McConnell said, "It can't all be solved by changing personnel, some of it requires changing the law. That means we have to deal with the Democrats. They're in the majority in the House."
The RAISE Act is exactly what a Congress would pass if it were committed to the idea of helping tens of millions of struggling Americans in stagnant jobs or outside the labor market altogether.
Here is my statement to the nation's news media on why this should be a compassionate mandate for the President and the Congress.
President Trump's hyperbolic comments about the country being "full" were followed by numerous media responses, like The New York Times article by The Upshot's Neil Irwin and Emily Badger, as if it needed to be explained to anyone that the country isn't actually "bursting at the seams" with people.
Sens. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), David Perdue (R-Ga.), and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) introduced the RAISE Act in the Senate. This is the same bill Sens. Cotton and Perdue introduced last Congress that would eliminate the visa lottery and chain migration, and would make employment visas merit-based. Rep. Rooney (R-Fla.) introduced a companion bill in the House.
Border Patrol officers apprehended 92,607 illegal border crossers during the month of March, marking the highest number of apprehensions in a single month since May 2006. In addition, more than 10,000 migrants presented themselves at ports of entry and were deemed to be inadmissible.
As Earth Day approaches, the physicist Steven Chu and the naturalist David Attenborough are issuing separate warnings about population pyramid and ponzi schemes.
More moderate levels of immigration such as those proposed by multiple commissions over the past decades are more compatible with environmental sustainability and economic justice than are the historically-high levels currently in place.
Kirstjen Nielsen stepped down as chief of the Department of Homeland Security on Sunday as the ongoing border crisis continues to worsen. Kevin McAleenan, who currently heads Customs and Border Protection, will take over in the interim.