With Pope Leo XIV's views on U.S. immigration policy subject to recent public interest, we are reposting these in hope that they will contribute to the public understanding of different approaches to a humane policy.

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Biden rolled back Trump's policies; Trump rolled back Biden's; a future administration can roll back Trump's again. Trump ended Biden's programs to parole inadmissible aliens into the country on day one. But Congress will have to permanently close that loophole through legislation like the Secure the Border Act that passed the House in the last Congress but was never taken up by the Senate.

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Many an administration has declared that they can't do more to require inadmissible aliens to leave because they lack the detention space. Few of those administrations, however, asked Congress to adequately fund detention.

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More Americans support President Trump’s policy to deport people in the country illegally than any other issue. 58% of all Americans support President Trump’s policy to “deport immigration illegally in the U.S.,” according to a CBS / YouGov poll. The administration needs funding to continue to enforce the law. The budget resolution vote this week is crucial to provide the needed funding to secure the border and deport illegal aliens.

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On Thursday, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) introduced S. 1151, the Accountability Through Electronic Verification Act, to identify unauthorized workers and illegal aliens engaged in identity fraud and theft. The bill is one of NumbersUSA's "Great Solutions" for fixing immigration policies in the 119th Congress.

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On Tuesday, March 25, Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) introduced the Fairness for High-Skilled Americans Act (H.R. 2315) that would end the Optional Practical Training program (OPT) that gives U.S. employers a discount for NOT hiring American workers. The bill is one of NumbersUSA's "Great Solutions" for fixing immigration policies in the 119th Congress.

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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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Vice President J.D. Vance told a gathering of leaders from the tech industry this week that the Trump administration was fundamentally committed to getting America off of its addiction to cheap foreign labor.

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"If you allow 20 million people to compete with American citizens for the cost of homes, you are going to have a large and, frankly, completely preventable spike in the demand for housing. And that is what we, of course, have seen. Because while we made it a little bit hard to build homes in this country over the last four years, we've also, unfortunately, made it way too easy for people to compete against American citizens for the precious homes that are in our country to begin with."

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