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Identity Theft and Illegal Employment: What a Major Investigation Reveals About the Crisis Harming American Citizens

By Joe Jenkins

More than a million Americans may be victims of identity theft by an illegal worker. That is one of the startling findings from a December 2025 RealClearInvestigations exposé that documented the staggering scale of identity theft connected to illegal employment – and the devastating consequences for the American citizens whose identities are stolen. The investigation, … Continued

Community Safety or Immigration Enforcement? A False Choice.

By Jeremy Beck

An ICE officer shot and killed a U.S. citizen last week during an enforcement operation in Minneapolis. Protesters continue to clash with ICE nationwide, especially in sanctuary cities where local officials like Mayor Frey of Minneapolis have called on federal agents to leave. This doesn’t have to be a choice between community safety and law … Continued

Sanctuary Policies Push Immigration Enforcement Into the Streets

By Joe Jenkins

The New York Times reports that these arrests are more common in states with sanctuary policies limiting cooperation with ICE. A Washington Post analysis found that ICE is now making more than four times as many at-large arrests per week than during President Trump’s first term. Sanctuary policies do not stop enforcement–they shift it into less controlled environments.

2026 will determine the legacy of a historic 2025

By Jeremy Beck

The Laken Riley Act became the first bill to address enforcement failures to be passed by Congress on a bipartisan basis since the 2006 Secure Fence Act. Twenty years ago, the bipartisan support came from the likes of Senators Jeff Sessions (R-AL), John McCain (R-AZ), Joe Biden (D-DE), Hilary Clinton (D-NY) Barack Obama (D-IL), and Charles “Chuck” Schumer (D-NY).

Twenty Years Ago Today: House Passed Bipartisan Immigration Reduction and Enforcement Legislation

By Joe Jenkins

On December 16, 2005 – twenty years ago today – the House of Representatives passed H.R. 4437, the Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005, by a vote of 239-182. The legislation included mandatory use of the E-Verify system (phased in over two years), construction of 700 miles of reinforced border fencing, … Continued

Report Exposes the Cost of “Compassion” at the Border

By Jeremy Beck

Most Americans would probably prefer a stable system that prevents illegal immigration in the first place and limits these wild fluctuations. To this point, however, Congress has not acted to provide that stability.

60 Years of the Hart-Celler Act and Mass Immigration

By Jeremy Beck

In the end, the bill changed both the “which ones” and the “how many.” The discriminatory quotas were abolished, but immigration numbers almost immediately doubled. Decades of declining inequality, an expanding middle class, and shrinking racial wealth gaps were halted and reversed.

How Congress can take the pressure off ICE

By Jeremy Beck

Congress should reintroduce and pass H.R. 2 from the previous Congress to secure the border – and the workplace – forever. Without E-Verify, the crushing burden of reversing the worst border crisis in history falls on ICE alone. With E-Verify, the jobs magnet disappears, and people who came illegally lose their biggest reason to remain here.

Why Black Americans should support ICE and Deportations 

By Andre Barnes

A response to Travis Claybrooks’s op-ed, “Why Black America can’t be silent on ICE arrests and deportations” in the publication The Tennessean In his May 21st, 2025 opinion editorial for the The Tennessean, Travis Claybrooks tries to paint a portrait of fear and abuse from ICE toward illegal aliens, and encourages Black Americans not to … Continued