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For 9 months, I've asked fellow environmentalists why they don't address immigration as population issue
Here are representative comments of what I heard from my first 73 conversations.
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Calls to eliminate ICE get serious. Is disdain for nationhood behind it all?
This is a different kind of 4th of July holiday than we've had since at least the early '70s.
A growing number of Members of Congress -- and protesters in the streets -- are questioning the legitimacy of the United States of America remaining a true nation of self-determining people.
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Breaking Down House Votes on the Securing America's Future Act & the Goodlatte-Ryan-Denham Amnesty
The Securing America's Future Act, H.R. 4760, fell just 20 votes short of passing the House last week, setting a high-water mark for supporting an end to chain migration and mandatory E-Verify. Notably, more than 100 House Republicans voted against the Goodlatte-Ryan-Denham Amnesty, H.R. 6136, and in favor of H.R. 4760 -- a bill that NumbersUSA had supported since its introduction back in January.
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President Trump Fails to Acknowledge E-Verify As the Most Effective Deterrent of Illegal Immigration
The Trump Administration's "zero tolerance" policy for illegal border crossings will reduce illegal immigration. If Congress takes action, it can ensure that parents and children are kept together while they await the outcome of their cases. If the President wants to pursue a "zero tolerance" policy against criminal employers who knowingly hire unauthorized workers, he must support the inclusion of E-Verify as part of any necessary reform bill.
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'Goodlatte bill' vote was highest in House EVER to end chain migration & mandate E-Verify
Although it came up 20 votes short of passing, H.R. 4760 ("the Goodlatte bill") yesterday gained the most votes in the history of the U.S. House of Representatives in terms of mandating E-Verify and ending the chain migration categories.
That is something to celebrate!
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President Trump Has a Clear Choice When It Comes to a DACA Amnesty
President Trump has a clear choice. he can sign the Goodlatte bill, which would fulfill some of his campaign promises, or he can sign the Speaker Ryan "compromise" bill, which is a Gang of Eight redux. Ryan's bill does not include E-Verify, and it won't cut the number of green cards issued every year.
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Ryan Amnesty Follows Gang of 8 Playbook -- Amnesty First, Enforcement Maybe Later
The draft text for House Speaker Paul Ryan's "compromise" bill is out, and it's as bad as we feared. Speaker Ryan's amnesty plan follows the same playbook that the Gang of 8 followed, granting an immediate and permanent amnesty to at least 1.8 million illegal aliens with only promises of future enforcement.
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Our ads continuously declare what House negotiators are trying to ignore: MOST VOTERS WANT IMMIGRATION CUTS
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Acting ICE Director Says Blame Congress for Rapid Rise in Illegal Border Crossings
DHS released border apprehension numbers for the month of May, and the numbers aren't good. Specifically, the release shows huge spikes in the number of unaccompanied children and family units attempting to cross the border illegally. Pres. Trump's tough talk on enforcement was able to slow the surge over his first year in office, but in year two, word has spread across the globe that his hands are tied when it comes to dealing with illegal border crossers unless Congress makes changes to existing law.
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Borjas Continues to Challenge Conventional Immigration Narrative
In 2017, Harvard economist George Borjas reexamined David Card's well-known study of the effect of the 1980 Mariel Boatlift on the Miami labor market. Unlike Card, Borjas found that the influx of Marielitos had caused wages for competing workers to drop. Earlier this month, Borjas, along with several coauthors, released a working paper that looks at employment prospects for workers in Miami in the years following Mariel.