Through a little-known national program called the Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC), designed as a mutual aid system between states, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced he is sending much needed and requested help to Texas & Arizona.
Attorney General Merrick Garland has struck down two immigration opinions penned by his AG predecessors under the Trump administration, reversing limits on who is eligible for asylum.
How would you answer that question? This was how it was put to me recently and I thought it might be helpful to others to share how I responded. It is my job, of course, to talk about immigration reduction, but it also is something I strongly believe will help Americans, especially the most desperate already among us.
The Biden Administration is barreling towards the midway point of its inaugural year and while their immigration policies received rave reviews from cartels, smugglers and traffickers, the courts are starting to signal the honeymoon is over.
Texas Rep. Chip Roy recently sent Vice President Kamala Harris a nine-page letter that expressed his, and the American peoples’ disappointment in Biden’s so-called “Border Czar” not visiting the Southern Border while the border crisis continues to rage at the U.S. Mexico Border.
The Department of Homeland Security recently released May's southwest border apprehension data, showing more than 180,000 encounters with illegal aliens last month alone. These most recent apprehension numbers are keeping up the pace of the worst border surge in two decades.
The American Farm Bureau Federation recently joined all 50 state Farm Bureaus and the Puerto Rico Farm Bureau in sending a letter urging the Biden administration to address the surge of undocumented immigrants entering the United States.
The Supreme Court, through a unanimous decision, has curbed the parameters of Temporary Protected Status, ruling that its temporary protection from deportation does not guarantee a shot at a more permanent stay.
The Biden administration's responses have more so encouraged the surge than quelled it. Reversing the surge requires closing the border to most, non-essential traffic during of the COVID-19 pandemic; Title 42, restarting the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP, or "Remain In Mexico" program), which requires asylum seekers to remain in Mexico until their case can be heard by an immigration judge; and other actions.
When Covid-19 hit New Zealand, that country's government took decisive action to seal its borders. The New Zealand government is now taking a course to ensure that its immigration policy operates for the benefit of its citizens.