By Jeremy Beck
The Senate’s $118 billion border bill fails to measure up to Barbara Jordan’s simple yardstick to measure credible enforcement. Here are some of the details:
By Jared Culver
If one thing is certain today, it is that President Biden’s border policies have been a disaster. He came into power rescinding policies like Remain in Mexico and expanding parole for aliens entering the United States illegally. With each policy step he takes, border numbers increase. As the numbers increase, more states and localities declare … Continued
By Jeremy Beck
There is a long history of legislation siding with employers’ preferences for foreign labor over Black Americans. We have the receipts.
By Roy Beck
Most of the people celebrated as “essential workers” during the pandemic were part of the working classes whose interests had been ignored and devalued for decades by the makers of immigration policies — policies that had steadily depressed their wages and their labor participation rates. And, of course, many of them were immigrants themselves who now found their climb up the economic ladder depressed by each annual legal arrival of a million more permanent competitors, not counting the unauthorized foreign workers.
The month of January marks the 54th anniversary of when the modern environmental movement started. In the 1970s major environmental protection initiatives became law starting with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), which requires that all federal agencies evaluate the environmental impacts of their actions.
By Jeremy Beck
NumbersUSA’s sprawl studies have, for more than two decades, explored the role of population growth in each county in each state and the role of a multiplicity of decisions by government, business, and individuals that increase the average amount of developed land for each person in each county. Our sprawl studies have been cited in scholarly literature over a hundred times in over a dozen languages.
By Andre Barnes
As I continue to go to different colleges and universities, I am going to continue to provide students with information, demonstrations, and tools to get involved. I am going to continue to develop my craft and find new ways to excite students about immigration. I want to provide them with information that will inspire them to take an interest, vote, and possibly be future activists for an issue that directly affects them.
By Jeremy Beck
America’s intact landscapes comprise 50% or more of the country. We have far more wilderness than most nations. A better immigration policy would go a long way toward protecting this rich resource and heritage.
By Roy Beck
While government, banking, and societal practices have taken wealth from Black communities before the wealth could grow, federal high-immigration/loose-labor policies have taken wealth from Black communities before it is even earned.
