By Jeremy Beck
Until the 2021-2025 border crisis, the majority of illegal immigration in recent years started as legal immigration. The terror attack in Boulder, Colorado this week reminds us of this weakness in our system. The suspect arrived in the U.S. legally in 2022, on a tourist visa. That year, 850,000 people overstayed their visas – almost … Continued
By Jeremy Beck
The Trump administration is ramping up immigration enforcement in the workplace, and people are rioting in the streets. ICE is reporting a record number of arrests in a single day (2,300) Detention facilities are running out of space. The fate of immigration enforcement after the worst border crisis in history is now in the hands of the Senate, which is considering the “One Big Beautiful” Reconciliation bill, including $150 Billion in immigration funding.
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
Representatives of both political parties took part in the fly-in event and vowed to work with their colleagues to make sure illegal workers keep their jobs. None offered a word of concern for legal workers.
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
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.
By Jeremy Beck
According to a new Center for Immigration Studies analysis of the January 2025 household survey, released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics: “The long-term increase in men not in the labor force is linked to profound social problems,” writes Dr. Steven A. Camarota, “such as crime and overdose deaths. Addressing this deterioration is challenging, but … Continued
By Eric Ruark
International audiences who follow American media are aware that under President Joe Biden, “unprecedented migration” to the United States occurred. The term migration is wholly appropriate here in the sense that millions of people from around the world crossed the U.S. border. However, under U.S. law, these migrants were overwhelmingly inadmissible aliens – an alien … Continued
By Jeremy Beck
Citizens of other nations can enter the U.S. on a tourist visa (or cross the border illegally), take a weekend vacation, deliver a baby, and the U.S. government will automatically bestow U.S. citizenship on the newborn. When the child turns 18, the whole family becomes eligible for green cards. This is incompatible with the global … Continued
