By Jeremy Beck
Routine immigration enforcement remains the Trump Administration’s most popular policy. The question now is: will Congress provide the funds necessary to meet Barbara Jordan’s credible immigration yardstick: “Those who should get in, get in; those who should be kept out, are kept out; and those who should not be here will be required to leave.”
By Jeremy Beck
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has a new campaign with a message to business owners: “You know you’re not supposed to hire illegal aliens. We’re enforcing the law across the board — all businesses in all industries.”
By Jeremy Beck
Biden rolled back Trump’s policies; Trump rolled back Biden’s; a future administration can roll back Trump’s again. Trump ended Biden’s programs to parole inadmissible aliens into the country on day one. But Congress will have to permanently close that loophole through legislation like the Secure the Border Act that passed the House in the last Congress but was never taken up by the Senate.
By Jeremy Beck
Many an administration has declared that they can’t do more to require inadmissible aliens to leave because they lack the detention space. Few of those administrations, however, asked Congress to adequately fund detention.
By Jeremy Beck
More Americans support President Trump’s policy to deport people in the country illegally than any other issue. 58% of all Americans support President Trump’s policy to “deport immigration illegally in the U.S.,” according to a CBS / YouGov poll. The administration needs funding to continue to enforce the law. The budget resolution vote this week is crucial to provide the needed funding to secure the border and deport illegal aliens.
By Jeremy Beck
On Thursday, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) introduced S. 1151, the Accountability Through Electronic Verification Act, to identify unauthorized workers and illegal aliens engaged in identity fraud and theft. The bill is one of NumbersUSA’s “Great Solutions” for fixing immigration policies in the 119th Congress.
By Jeremy Beck
The problem for the Democratic Party, in Leonhardt’s view, is that while corporations often push for higher immigration in order to lower wages, immigration expansionist advocates take a moralistic view that’s devoid of nuance: “The advocates’ position, in essence, was: More is good, and less is racist. Voters disagreed, and they rebelled.”
By Jeremy Beck
“If you allow 20 million people to compete with American citizens for the cost of homes, you are going to have a large and, frankly, completely preventable spike in the demand for housing. And that is what we, of course, have seen. Because while we made it a little bit hard to build homes in this country over the last four years, we’ve also, unfortunately, made it way too easy for people to compete against American citizens for the precious homes that are in our country to begin with.”
By Jeremy Beck
The final reckoning of the Biden Administration’s immigration and enforcement policies has yet to come, but the 2021-2025 era was clearly historic. Biden’s border crisis is over, but the fallout will be with us for years.
