As the January 1, 2010, deadline approaches for REAL ID compliance -- a deadline that could leave airline passengers all over the country delayed in TSA lines for failure to have a federally certified secure driver license -- DHS Secretary Napolitano faces a quandary: enforce the law she is trying to repeal, or risk turning a law for which she is responsible for implementing into a joke. Read more...

Taxpayers will have difficulty finding dialysis treatments due to illegal immigration, reported the New York Times over the weekend. Our open-border immigration policy is resulting in increased costs to taxpayers and medical patients, layoffs of hospital employees, and is simultaneously endangering public health. Read more...

CIS does all of us a service by its annual listing of Immigration-Related Theses and Dissertations, such as Matt Graham's most recent edition published earlier this month.

Each of the approximately 360 papers listed for 2008 represents from one to two year's full-time work, sometimes more, and its completion is usually the last step on the way to the writer's securing a Ph.D. In these studies could contain a treasure-chest of highly useful information and insights that could help the nation as it struggles to define its immigration policy. Read more...

Cooking up Thanksgiving-style metaphors, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano stated yesterday that "E-Verify is at the centerpiece of our efforts to maintain a legal workforce both for large and small businesses." She quickly added that "employers need to be held accountable for maintaining a legal workforce” and “our commitment to this approach is growing." It seems that E-Verify has made its way onto the menu for immigration fixings, so much so it holds a prominent position in the center of the immigration reform table. Read more...