George Will has never been particularly good on immigration, so I was a little surprised by his column calling for an end to automatic citizenship at birth (specifically, for the U.S.-born children of illegal aliens). Read more...

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1. ICE to rev-up arrests
2. Graham reiterates tough sell
3. DC-area jailing violent aliens
4. Activists protest enforcement
5. Activists rally for amnesty Read more...

The "Judy Miller problem" heaved its lazy, destructive head in Saturday's New York Times.

This time it won't set the predicate for an invasion of a Middle Eastern country. This time it lends legitimacy to a reckless campaign to smear groups that oppose illegal immigration. Read more...

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau's practice under Obama administration priorities is resulting in fewer overall deportations. That amounts to a law enforcement agency being hindered to the point of going soft on crime. Read more...

I was talking to a nonimmigrant PhD student from Nepal the other day, and asked him what his dissertation would be about. He is studying engineering at the University of Maryland-College Park and he replied that it would deal with nano materials.

Then I asked, "what can you do with that specialty in Nepal?" Read more...

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1. Admin's sights on amnesty
2. Graham: no momentum in Senate
3. U.S., Mexico teams up
4. Feds warn of U.S. gangs
5. Amnesty bill benefits grads Read more...

I'm a fan of Terry Gross, host of the NPR interview program "Fresh Air," normally one of the most interesting and thought-provoking shows on the air. That is why I felt sick about her interview yesterday with Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center. As I told two journalist friends, I haven't come so close to losing my cookies since I got food poisoning in 2005. Read more...

Though Thomas Friedman's New York Times column "America's Real Dream Team" squandered a teachable moment, copping out by failing to offer an explicitly political condemnation of America's current immigration policies and the unending campaign for "comprehensive immigration reform," he indirectly demolished both. Read more...

This morning the Washington Post released news that the State Department has been hiding from us for months: not once, but twice, State Department failed in keeping a U.S. visa out of a terrorist's hands. The Christmas Day bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, had initially had his visa denied in 2004, four years prior to his 2008 application. Read more...

Supposing you work for a government agency that has just improved its anti-bank-robbery program.

Could you write a press release about it without using the words "bank" or "robber"? Well, USCIS has pulled off a comparable feat visa-a-vis the E-Verify program, whose sole purpose in life is preventing illegal aliens from getting jobs. Read more...

The Washington Post recently editorialized that … “it’s hard to think of a higher [White House] priority than stabilizing a neighbor and major trading partner.” Statements from the Clinton entourage echo this naïve belief that Uncle Sam can fix intractable problems abroad, especially in an adjacent nation. Read more...

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1. Feds ill-equipped for amnesty
2. Foreign-born unemployment
3. Kennedy amnesty film
4. AZ house advances bill
5. FL considers measures Read more...

The criminal justice system and the immigration enforcement system often operate independently, like two trains on parallel tracks. Although communication between law enforcement and federal immigration officials has improved dramatically over the past decade, there remain some loopholes and inconsistencies. When communication is strong, a criminal illegal alien picked up by local authorities is reported to ICE as soon as he is taken into custody and then turned over to ICE for deportation at the end of any jail term. Read more...

Tom Barry is the director of the TransBorder Project at the liberal Center for International Policy in Washington. He works from New Mexico, where for more than 30 years he has done valuable research and writing on public policy issues. I first began learning from his work in the late 1970s, when I was working on a book about a bitter land dispute between the Navajos and Hopis in northeastern Arizona. Read more...

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1. SCOTUS to rule on birth-right
2. AZ to consider enforcement bill
3. CNMI Gov. signs immigration bill
4. AL city consults prominent hawk
5. Former DHS official convicted Read more...

Charles H. Kuck (pronounced "cook"), the immediate past president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, clearly knows a lot about immigration law. But if the comments he made recently on his radio program, Immigration Hour, are any indication, he has a few gaps in his knowledge of immigration lobbying in Washington. Here are some excerpts: Read more...

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1. Activists rally in DC
2. Issues collide in NE
3. CA candidate eyes cuts
4. Evangelical for amnesty
5. Ex-official on trial Read more...

Harris N. Miller, the talented immigration lobbyist, the man who expanded the H-1B program to new, huge dimensions and helped create immigration breaks for the Irish, has a (relatively) new job. Read more...

Media Matters, the liberal watchdog group, sent a video camera to yesterday's CIS press conference, where we introduced our new report: "Immigration and the SPLC: How the Southern Poverty Law Center Invented a Smear, Served La Raza, Manipulated the Press, and Duped its Donors." Read more...

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1. DHS ends fence funding
2. Dept. to assist with U Visa
3. Amnesty groups mobilizing
4. TX senators invite Obama
5. CA Gov. for more BP agents Read more...

The director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) offered no help at all yesterday regarding the influx of nonimmigrant workers vis-a-vis the current high levels of unemployment in the United States. Read more...

The evening newscast on Univision last night included an advertisement calling on Latinos to come to immigration march in Washington this Sunday.

In the 30-second spot a young man says he will march because "I don't want them to separate me from my family." A middle-aged man says he'll march "so that Obama and the Congress fulfill their promise." A middle-aged woman says she'll march "because without immigration reform the suffering will continue." Read more...

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1. DHS to freeze fence funds
2. Bill may face NCLR opposition
3. Poll finds allegiance to Mexico
4. CA co. to screen inmates
5. Detainees bemoan transfer Read more...

One would not know that there were swirling immigration controversies from the content of yesterday's hearing before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security on the proposed 2011 budget of USCIS. Read more...

The Transborder Immigrant Tool, a cell phone GPS app developed by university professors with taxpayer monies, has been touted as essentially guiding illegal migrants more safely across the desert, helping them find water and avoid the Border Patrol. The app is available to anyone for free, thus encouraging illegal entry while aiding and abetting violations of immigration and criminal law. Drug dealers, smugglers, traffickers, MS-13 gangs and potential terrorists also are being provided a free technology gateway into America. Read more...

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1. Labor unions take stand
2. Haitians ignore TPS offer
3. Census targets "hard to reach"
4. Immigrants avoid large cities
5. Ex-official arrested Read more...

Things aren't quite spinning out of control yet in Mexico, but it's not looking good, as seen in this weekend's murder of three people associated with our consulate in Juarez, right across the river from El Paso — three among 100 people killed over the weekend in what has turned into a war against the state itself. Read more...

There was an interesting exchange yesterday between White House senior adviser David Axelrod and reporter Candy Crowley on CNN's program, "State of the Union." (See it here, starting at 1:55.) It begins with a question from Crowley about a statement from Democratic Congressman Luis Gutierrez of Illinois: Read more...

The in-house immigration appeals agency in the Department of Homeland Security, the Administrative Appeals Office, does not provide statistics on what it does. Read more...

The immigration issue could put health reform at risk once again, as it did last fall. Then, President Obama had to do some fancy footwork after an unceremonious challenge during his speech to a joint session of Congress. Rep. Joe Wilson was right, and the House bill held gaping loopholes that pretty much guaranteed illegal aliens would benefit under health reform. Ultimately, Speaker Nancy Pelosi added a modicum of eligibility verification to the House bill, and Majority Leader Harry Reid kept the relatively stronger verification provisions in his Senate version. Read more...