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.

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December 31, 2025 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration ServicesU.S. Department of Homeland Security5900 Capital Gateway DriveCamp Springs, MD 20746 RE: DHS Docket No. USCIS-2025-0205Collection and Use of Biometrics by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services NumbersUSA welcomes U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ (USCIS) Notice of ProposedRulemaking (NPRM) related to the collection and use of biometrics, and submits … Continued

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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).

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Overall environmental conditions in the United States deteriorated in 2025, as the nation continued to add more people to already overburdened ecosystems. As the U.S. population reaches 345 million, the country's environmental problems increasingly reflect a basic mismatch between human numbers and ecological capacity.

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There's already a bill to end the lottery: H.R. 1241 - The SAFE Act (by Mike Collins, GA) would eliminate the visa lottery, which raffles off 55,000 green cards each year without regard to employment skills or family ties. As of this writing, 32 representatives have signed on to H.R. 1241.

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The legislation that bears her name takes only modest steps toward a secure system, yet opponents argue that the government should continue to place migrant children with sponsors who are in the country illegally.

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For decades after the Clean Air Act (1970), new emission standards, cleaner fuels and technological innovations brought steady air quality improvements to America's metro regions. But those gains have since stalled, as population growth, with its traffic expansion and rising energy demands, overwhelms the benefits of air pollution controls.

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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

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The Kayla Hamilton Act prioritizes child safety, public safety, and basic accountability. Sen. Cortez Masto's bill risks reviving the chaos, exploitation, and tragedy that defined the height of the border crisis.

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