Biden’s Latest Asylum Overhaul Attempt Worse Than the First

By Chris Chmielenski

The Departments of Homeland Security and Justice (DHS and DOJ respectively), are blundering ever on toward administrative collapse with their latest version of asylum reform. Back in August of 2021, we saw the initial draft which was a radical overhaul of the entire asylum process in the middle of “seasonal” surge of migrants at the … Continued

Increasing Immigration is not a Key Issue for Many Hispanics

By Lisa Irving

Recent polls and media analyses spell out how Republicans are capturing Hispanic voters whom Democrats lost ground with, and, notably, how Hispanic voters along the border increasingly favor Republican platforms on immigration limits and enforcement. These reports cite that economic and worker issues are the key concerns for Hispanic voters — not increasing immigration. Equis … Continued

Biden Administration’s Immigration Agenda’s Most Consistent Theme is Judicial Failure

By Chris Chmielenski

Another day, another court enjoining the Biden Administration. The issue this time was spelled out strikingly by Judge Michael Newman. He wrote, “At bottom, that is what this dispute is about: can the Executive displace clear congressional command in the name of resource allocation and enforcement goals?” He’s talking about enforcement priority memos where the … Continued

Overshoot Day…already

By Admins

Annually, the Global Footprint Network “measures a population’s demand for and ecosystems’ supply of resources and services” to inform us when during the course of a year we’ve reached overshoot – the point when we’ve used up what the Earth’s ecosystem has to give. That date this year is March 13 for the United States, … Continued

Biden avoids Ponzi demography in SOTU; his policies do not

By Jeremy Beck

Should we magically manage to employ all existing residents and then all those extra babies and extra immigrants many politicians tell us we should have, what happens when they, too, reach retirement age? We then have the same problem we were trying to solve, except now it is even bigger. This is how Ponzi schemes … Continued

Wages Are Not to Blame for Inflation

By Lisa Irving

BLS February Report – Wages Stagnant The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported last week that jobs rose by 678,000 and unemployment fell to 3.8% in February. Many in the media pounced on these numbers, predicting that the labor market will return to pre-pandemic levels this summer. A troubling aspect of the report, however, is … Continued

What do you mean by ‘EVERYONE,’ Mr. President? EVERY category of Black voters soundly rejects your chain migration.

By Roy Beck

According to Pres. Biden in last week’s State of the Union address, “EVERYONE from labor unions to religious leaders to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce” supports his “immigration reform.” Apparently, African American voters aren’t part of his “everyone.” Polling of Black voters, for example, finds 57% opposed allowing any immigrant to bring or petition for … Continued

Immigration-Driven Population Growth Arguments Disregard Inequality

By Lisa Irving

Earlier this month, The Washington Post and The New York Times yet again published articles extolling immigration-driven population growth while ignoring how it contributes to inequality through its negative impact on American workers. In “Amid Slowdown, Immigration Is Driving U.S. Population Growth” New York Times writers Miriam Jordan and Robert Gebeloff are elated that “immigration … Continued

POLL: Black voters strongly oppose ‘labor shortage’ arguments of Biden, biz lobbies, all congressional Democrats and some Republicans

By Roy Beck

Black voters are not buying the Biden Administration’s insistence that the nation faces a severe labor shortage that requires the massive increases in work permits for immigrants and other foreign workers contained in his Build Back Better proposals. A national poll released this week by Rasmussen Reports found “likely voters” who identified as “Black” have … Continued