Can we have a good-faith debate about limits while the government runs a de facto open borders policy? Enforcement at the border has been essentially abandoned under the Biden Administration and this sea change has been given little notice by the D.C. media corps.
The Chamber of Commerce has started a lobbying campaign to massively increase legal immigration into the United States, specifically a momentous increase in foreign visa workers to further stagnate and even lower prevailing wages in the American job market.
The Department of Homeland Security has officially terminated the Migrant Protection Protocols, also known as "Remain In Mexico," initiated under President Donald Trump. The Remain In Mexico policy enabled immigration agencies like ICE and Border Patrol to keep illegal aliens in Mexico while waiting for their immigration court date in the U.S.
Republicans on the House Committee for Natural Resources hosted a forum this week to discuss the environmental impacts of Pres. Biden's ongoing border crisis. In each of the last two months, 170,000 illegal border crossers have been apprehended by Border Patrol agents, not to mention the countless number of individuals who crossed illegally and undetected.
Many schools across America are bursting at the seams. Children, in some places for most of their elementary and secondary educational years, have been packed into overcrowded classrooms that threaten their ability to learn and succeed in safe and supportive environments.
The island nation of New Zealand is now facing a real estate bubble caused by businesses' demands for more immigrant workers, home buyers, and overall consumers. Amazingly, New Zealand's Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, has had the courage to address the nation's housing affordability crisis at its root causes, uncontrolled mass immigration and investor schemes to exploit them.
Today, DHS Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas announced a new 18-month designation of Haiti for Temporary Protected Status (TPS). This amnesty enables Haitians illegally residing, and those already under TPS in the United States as of May 21, 2021 to file applications for Temporary Protected Status
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas advanced the Biden Administration's efforts this week to completely dismantle interior immigration enforcement. DHS took steps to shut down two facilities that detain illegal aliens -- one in Georgia and one in Massachusetts. Along with the closing of the Massachusetts facility, DHS announced it's also cancelling its 287(g) agreement with the Bristol County sheriff's office.
It won't matter if a judge eventually orders the border crossers to go home. Or if the border crossers never show up for a hearing. Or if a claim for asylum is proven to be completely bogus. No degree of absconding will make any difference, because our current "I-9" immigration law ensures that illegal aliens can easily obtain jobs that will support them well enough so they never have to go home.
Joe Biden’s new rules imposed on Immigration and Customs Enforcement to reduce arrests and deportations of illegal aliens have slashed the department’s targeting of criminal aliens by 75%.