The New York Times Magazine writer C.J. Chivers ponders an immigration enforcement puzzle while failing to consider that E-Verify would prevent illegal aliens coming into the U.S. by land or sea.
In immigration votes this week, we began to see which Senators feel their constituents want protections for American workers, and which ones are on the fence voting for American workers some of the time and against them others.
In a pair of articles for The Hill in January, the demographer Joseph Chamie (formerly of the United Nations Population Division) provides a road map for how the Biden-Harris administration and Congress might unite the nation around immigration reform.
On the path that acting DHS head Pekoske started us down yesterday, anybody in the world can take a trip to Disney World and then start moving into the U.S. jobs market and never have to leave. Any visa for work, study, or pleasure would be a "Magic Kingdom Pass" for the whole world to take U.S. jobs.
Pres. Biden has proposed amnesty for more than 11 million illegal aliens, a massive expansion of legal immigration, and the dismantling of enforcement if yet to be released legislation is anything like an outline provided by the new Administration hours before Biden was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States.
The clock has run out for the Trump Administration to move forward an interim final "G-Verify" rule that would require employers to file their "I-9" employment verification forms online. That would allow federal officials to actually see the forms and whether procedures were properly followed to prevent hiring of illegal aliens. Currently, employers can fill out the forms and just stuff them into their desk drawers.
Human trafficking continues because the U.S. government refuses to take adequate steps to combat illegal immigration. Amnesty will only encourage more of the same. Border security and interior enforcement -- not lip service to the "rule of law" -- are necessary to end this scourge.
At the 1963 March on Washington that included Martin Luther King Jr.'s iconic "I have a dream" speech, the lead organizer and head of the event was A. Philip Randolph. The president of the Sleeping Car Porters union had a long history of advocating for immigration restrictions as part of his five decades of advancing Black economic interests.