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.
The United Kingdom is facing many of the same immigration-related issues as the United States because policy makers have failed to plan sufficiently for immigration-driven population growth, while public support for reducing annual immigration levels remains strong. In order to accommodate housing demand, open space is being paved over for development.
Oren Cass and David Leonhardt ponder whether the left or the right are capable of embracing worker-friendly immigration policies.
As the curtain closes on 2020, the NumbersUSA staff who work as part of the Media Standards Project have each pulled together a list of 10 noteworthy media items* from the year that advanced a healthy, civil, productive conversation on immigration-related issues.
As part of NumberUSA's mission, the Media Standards Project team analyzed and reviewed news throughout the year focusing on media that elevated discussions about how immigration limits and levels should serve our national interest. While the global pandemic and U.S. elections dominated news cycles this year, these events also influenced writers on how to broach immigration topics.
These 10 noteworthy pieces encapsulate the immigration conversations that took place during 2020 that will help inform policy decisions for 2021.