Over three years of border madness the White House has remained stubbornly allergic to the idea that illegal aliens are arriving at the border and claiming asylum as a pretext to gain entry and work authorization in the United States. This denial of the basic truth driving the crisis has poisoned every enforcement effort attempted. … Continued

There is a good deal of discussion right now about forced labor in China and the seafood industry, among others. Many in Congress are up in arms about securing America’s supply chain to ensure goods and services entering America are not enabled by forced labor. While this is laudable, the same Congress, media, and Executive … Continued

Remember when the media and politicians claimed calling the mass migration at the border an invasion was racist? Or remember all the times American politicians and economists have haughtily dismissed the idea that rising immigration puts pressures on housing prices, inflation, and wages? Well, I stumbled upon a 60 Minutes piece detailing (at about the … Continued

A working theory of government is that they can reduce undesirable behavior by taxing it. When the government wanted to reform the health insurance industry, they imposed a tax penalty for citizens who refused to buy health insurance. The government taxes early distributions of retirement savings accounts because it wants to discourage early withdrawals. This … Continued

The current cause celebre of the open borders crowd is the oft-repeated canard that illegal aliens are less likely statistically to commit a crime than American citizens. The veracity of that statement is very much in doubt for all sorts of reasons, including the pesky fact that many law enforcement encounters do not inquire or … Continued

Both the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and the Wage and Hour Division (WHD) have noticed new regulations designed to protect foreign workers from the explosion of exploitation within the labor market. While the attempts to stop the exploitation should be applauded, the new regulations are correctly understood as mere Band-Aids on deep … Continued

This week has seen reports that Tyson Foods is anxious to hire recent asylum seekers.

The House of Representatives is considering H.R. 7511, the Laken Riley Act. The legislation empowers state governments to challenge the plainly illegal actions of presidents.

The most direct and fundamental way to resolve America’s decline in biodiversity is to gradually bring down our high levels of immigration. Habitat loss cannot be stopped as long as immigration (legal and illegal) continues to add roughly three and a half million people every year.