When Australia closed its borders in response to the coronavirus, many politicians and members of the media were predicting doom and gloom for the economy. And then a not-so-remarkable thing happened. Without an economy artificially juiced on immigration, Australians began to see gains for themselves as per capita GDP began to rise and unemployed workers began to rejoin the workforce. This is a story that deserves a lot more attention.
Nineteen years after NumbersUSA published our first study, sprawl is still devouring valuable farmland and wildlife habitat, both in Oregon and nationwide. But national and state environmental groups, by and large, have shifted their focus to other issues and away from the loss of habitat and open space due to the unsustainable outward expansion of cities in America.
Sprawl Still a Problem After All These Years (and Americans and Oregonians Are Still Concerned).....
The Department of Justice has repealed an extremely effective policy put in place during Donald Trump’s presidency that restricted hundreds of millions of dollars in grants to Sanctuary Cities that disregard the rule of law and endanger their law-abiding constituents.
According to a press release from the Department of Homeland Security, DHS is extending the REAL ID full enforcement date by an additional 19 months - from October 1, 2021, to May 3, 2023.
This coming Wednesday, the House subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship, will hold a hearing oddly entitled "Why Don't They Just Get in Line? Barriers to Legal Immigration." You may think this is a waste of time and certainly I forgive the sentiment. However, there is always opportunity to learn even in the darkest of times. On paper, Democrats holding a committee hearing to rebut a strawman rhetorical question they asked themselves is an excellent microcosm of how Democratic leadership has functioned in the majority this year, but it does provide some space for an actual discussion about how many legal ways aliens can enter the United States.
DHS has stopped fining illegal aliens who have overstayed their visas and refuse to depart from the United States, after previously agreeing that they would depart during the initial process to acquire a visa. The Admin. will also cancel the debts of those fined for overstaying visas under President Trump.
Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton is suing the Biden Administration, again; this time, asking the courts to make the federal government follow their own Coronavirus rules when it comes to the crisis at the Southern Border.
NumbersUSA's two-decade focus on the relationship between immigration policy and the destruction of natural habitat received a nice national spotlight on this 51st Earth Day.
The House of Represen -tatives has voted on and passed two immigration bills: H.R. 1333, the No BAN Act, and H.R. 1573, the Access to Counsel Act.
The Biden adminis -tration is expected to make an additional 22,000 seasonal guest worker visas available to foreign nationals before this summer