By Eric Ruark
Since President Biden assumed office on January 20, 2021, his administration has taken deliberate actions to facilitate illegal immigration into the United States – including assisting smugglers to complete human trafficking operations – and to end the enforcement of immigration law in the interior of the country. As long as jobs and taxpayer-funded government benefits … Continued
By Eric Ruark
Since President Biden assumed office on January 20, 2021, his administration has taken deliberate actions to facilitate illegal immigration into the United States – including assisting smugglers to complete human trafficking operations – and to end the enforcement of immigration law in the interior of the country. As long as jobs and taxpayer-funded government benefits … Continued
By Eric Ruark
Dr. Steven Camarota, Director of Research at the Center for Immigration Studies, published a report last week on net migration (the difference between the number of people entering and the number leaving the U.S. in a given year) since 2010. He found that the “immigrant population (legal and illegal) has grown much more slowly since … Continued
By Eric Ruark
Podcaster and Vox newsplainer Matthew Yglesias has a book out today entitled One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger. An excerpt from the book appeared on the Intelligencer website of New York magazine (published by Vox Media) on August 31. Yglesias also did a podcast with Tyler Cowen on September 9. Both are very … Continued
By Eric Ruark
President Trump has taken significant steps to protect American workers. In June, he extended the immigration pause to include several categories of temporary work visas. This week he signed another executive order to ensure that federal agencies do not layoff American contract workers in order to outsource those jobs to foreign guest workers, as was … Continued
By Eric Ruark
The State Department last week released its ceiling for refugee admissions for FY2020. Set at 18,000, the ceiling is just above half of the 30,000 admissions in FY2019 and well below the ten-year admission average of 58,900. Criticism of the FY2020 ceiling, including the outcry by refugee resettlement organizations, are largely predicated on the idea … Continued
By Eric Ruark
Last week Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raided seven chicken processing plants in Mississippi and took 680 people into custody. Two of the plant operators soon followed with statements claiming they had been using E-Verify and had no idea they were hiring illegal workers and, therefore, had no culpability for having hired so many. Peco … Continued
By Eric Ruark
Last month, the Center for Immigration Studies published a blog by Jason Richwine. Richwine, who knows well the debate over the economics of immigration, wrote: No fair reading of the literature could conclude that economists believe immigration has only costs or only benefits. Nevertheless, just about everything the American people are told by the corporate … Continued
By Eric Ruark
The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that it was constitutional to include a question about citizenship on the census, and that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross’ decision to do so was “reasonable and reasonably explained.” The majority in a 5-4 decision, however, blocked the Commerce Department, the agency that conducts the decennial census, from asking about citizenship … Continued
