An immigration policy that stops stealing wealth from Black Americans would also lessen the destruction of habitat that deprives our own ecosystems of the keystone species that keep them (and us) healthy.
Future demand for housing is driven almost entirely by immigration. Record housing starts haven't been a balm for affordability. Is there also evidence that immigration-fueled housing prices are driving inflation, even as many elites fret about rising wages? Well, yes.
Total encounters of illegal aliens at the Southwest border remained steady at 154,998 in February, marking the 24th consecutive month that encounters exceeded 150,000.
Another Department of Homeland Security (DHS) catch and release policy bites the dust. Florida Judge T. Kent Wetherell II reviewed the DHS “Parole + Alternatives to Detention (ATD)” policy in a fiery opinion. As the judge observes, this is completely counter to the law and a direct cause of the border crisis the country is currently enduring.
Congress has left immigration-driven population growth on auto-pilot, and American motorists are losing over a year of our lives to increased traffic and congestion. The U.S. has been adding 2-3 million people per year. Commutes aren't getting any easier, making immigration policy a basic quality-of-life issue.
Maybe you thought indentured servitude and forced labor were only found in the agricultural sector of our immigration system, but now we have a nurse filing a lawsuit and seeking a class action certification against her employer. This employer is Health Care Facility Management which does business as CommuniCare Family of Companies.
Texas, Florida, Colorado, and Arizona were overwhelmed last year and started to bus migrants to Washington D.C. and New York. New York declared a state of emergency and is busing migrants to destinations further north, aggravating international relations.
The free, online system reduces illegal hiring and presence. Employers like it, voters want it, and in the absence of national legislation, states are looking to take advantage of the tool on their own.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) takes a lot of the heat for the crumbling border and the chaos it causes in our communities for good reason. The Republicans in the House of Representatives are talking seriously about impeaching Secretary Mayorkas for his total abdication of responsibility to enforce our immigration laws and for endangering the public he’s sworn to protect. But a shocking (if you have not been reading this blog) New York Times investigation should put Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Xavier Beccera squarely in the crosshairs of House oversight efforts.
To continue on the projected path of immigration-driven demand on a dwindling, life-giving resource would be...something less than wise. Between overstays and gottaways, we have a million additional people looking for illegal employment opportunities every year. An obvious first step toward establishing a credible, fair, and sustainable immigration policy would be for the House to pass the bi-partisan Legal Workforce Act (H.R. 319).