By Lisa Irving
Many in the U.S. have faced housing challenges over the past year, with costs rising for those seeking to purchase or rent and insufficient resources for lower-income people in need of affordable units and shelter. Up to now, there has been minimal if any media discussion on the impact the current, record border crisis is … Continued
Per a scoop from Axios, the Biden Administration is launching an expansion of their attempt to release seemingly every illegal immigrant they encounter. This time they are expanding “Alternatives to detention (ATD)” with the aim of having most aliens released and on some “stricter” form of monitoring like a version of house arrest. Often, we … Continued
By Jeremy Beck
A few days after the Twitter Spaces event “How Does Immigration Benefit Black Americans” trended #1 on the social media site, Pamela Denise Long hosted Roy Beck for two sessions to discuss his book Back of the Hiring Line: A 200-year history of immigration surges, employer bias, and the depression of Black wealth. The two … Continued
By Admins
Eileen Sullivan and Miriam Jordan of the New York Times teamed up to write an article “Illegal Border Crossings, Driven by Pandemic and Natural Disasters, Soar to Record High,” that states the reasons for the record surge at the southern border can be blamed on the ongoing pandemic and natural disasters, such as hurricanes. While … 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 Andrew Good
As the curtain closes on 2020, the NumbersUSA staff who work as part of the Media Standards Project have each pulled together a list of 10 noteworthy media items* from the year that advanced a healthy, civil, productive conversation on immigration-related issues. These pundits and reporters provided their consumers with high-quality commentary and information, allowing … Continued
By Jeremy Beck
Lat week, we highlighted “Joseph Chamie’s warning”that another surge at the border is imminent. We don’t know how this latest one will play out — which depends largely on how the next administration handles it — but we can look back over the last decade to get a good idea of what we might expect. … Continued
By Jeremy Beck
Joseph Chamie, the former director of the United Nations Population Division says the migrant surge is coming, whether you like it or not: With a COVID-19 vaccine on the horizon, mobility restrictions are expected to be gradually lifted and social and economic conditions worsening in most developing countries, including dwindling flows of remittances, a surge … Continued
By Jeremy Beck
Pictures can move us in ways that words cannot and it is hard to find the right words for the photograph of Óscar Ramírez and his 23-month old daughter that went viral this week. Ramirez and his daughter, Valeria, drowned trying to cross the Rio Grande. Ramirez’s wife, who successfully crossed before them, reportedly watched … Continued
