According to a report by the Congressional Budget Office, Democrats’ hope to include a complete “pathway to citizenship,” also known as amnesty, in the Budget Reconciliation bill would cost the Federal government more than $500 billion over the next few decades.
The economic conditions brought about by the pandemic give us a glimpse of what a landscape even marginally tilted toward workers might look like: more flexibility, better working conditions, higher wages, and last but not least: the dignity that goes hand in hand with meaningful work. The immigration framework drafted by the House for the budget reconciliation bill would short-circuit that progress.
A recent analysis of the Census Bureau’s monthly Current Population Survey conducted by the Center for Immigration Studies shows that the total foreign-born population increased by 1.6 million from September 2020 to September 2021. The total foreign-born population fell for much of 2020 but rebounded immensely during recent months.
Readers weigh in on an article in The New York Times that claimed erroneously that COVID-19 and natural disasters are driving the recent record surge in illegal immigration.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested a vote was imminent on a bill that would grant amnesty to nearly 8 million illegal aliens on Thursday afternoon only to rescind it just a few hours later. Regardless of yesterday's events, Congressional Democrats moved closer to passing their sweeping budget reconciliation bill.
Progressive House Democrats and activist groups have ramped up their calls for amnesty in the budget reconciliation bill, despite two previous attempts being shot down by the Senate Parliamentarian for such a proposal breaking the Byrd Rule.
Earlier this week, reports circulated of a massive migrant caravan organized via QR code that had left the southern Mexican city of Huehuetán on Monday en route to the southern border.
In a letter sent over the weekend, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) denied an additional emergency request from Texas Governor Gregg Abbott. The Gov. asked FEMA to reconsider its previous denial to approve Texas’s request for an emergency declaration to assist in the ongoing border disaster.
Federal prosecutors in the state of South Carolina have secured dozens of guilty pleas from people involved in S.C.'s construction industry who illegally hired unauthorized aliens and paid them through unlicensed check-chasers to avoid detection of their unscrupulous business practices.