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Date March 28, 2025

Bipartisan Amnesty?! 📉 Lower Wages is a Feature of Immigration Policy, Not a Bug

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.

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Date March 21, 2025

Immigration still No. 1; Trump gets a new app

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."

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Date March 13, 2025

Illegal population grew by at least 50 percent. What is Congress prepared to do?

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.

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Date February 11, 2025

Nine out of ten new jobs have gone to immigrants since 2020

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

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Date February 1, 2025

The Historic Surge of Illegal Immigration Under President Biden

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

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Date December 6, 2024

Another Trump campaign promise to watch

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

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Date October 3, 2024

VP Debate (Re)Actions!

Adapted from a 10/02/2024 newsletter Sen. J.D. Vance and Gov. Tim Walz spent less time debating immigration last night than their running mates at the top of the tickets did in theirs, but there was much more substance. Worker Power or Loose Borders, Pick One (hat tip, Oren Cass) Immigration policy – like any other – produces … Continued

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Date August 12, 2024

Harris’s “Tough” Border Bill Mandates Illegal Immigration

Vice President Harris has promised to pass a failed Senate border bill that requires the government to release at least 1,400 inadmissible aliens into the country every day. 

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Date August 7, 2024

States pull back their welcome mats for illegal migrants

The federal and state governments have taken a short-sighted (albeit well-intentioned) approach to illegal immigration.  Incentivized by America’s “open-border” policies, millions of migrants have descended upon communities throughout our nation.  But it didn’t take long for emergency shelters, social services, schools, and taxpayers to become overwhelmed.  With no real options left, more and more state … Continued

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