On November 9, the DOJ and DHS adopted an interim final rule that bars aliens from receiving asylum if they are subject to a presidential proclamation suspending or limiting entry into the U.S. across the Mexican border.
Poverty and welfare use double that of native-born Americans
A new analysis by the Center for Immigration Studies of the latest Census Bureau data, which includes legal and illegal immigrants, shows that the size of the Central American immigrant population (from Guatemala, El Salvador, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama) has grown enormously in recent decades.
As the caravan of primarily Central American migrants advancing toward the U.S.-Mexico border continues to grow, several key issues have emerged for U.S. lawmakers and those involved in the national immigration debate:
On November 9, the DOJ and DHS adopted an interim final rule that bars aliens from receiving asylum if they are subject to a presidential proclamation suspending or limiting entry into the U.S. across the Mexican border.
Poverty and welfare use double that of native-born Americans
A new analysis by the Center for Immigration Studies of the latest Census Bureau data, which includes legal and illegal immigrants, shows that the size of the Central American immigrant population (from Guatemala, El Salvador, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama) has grown enormously in recent decades.
As the caravan of primarily Central American migrants advancing toward the U.S.-Mexico border continues to grow, several key issues have emerged for U.S. lawmakers and those involved in the national immigration debate:
One of the most open-borders groupings in Congress is the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus; it consists of both House and Senate members with Asian roots and the three non-voting delegates from American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands.
It has been growing steadily in recent years, and it will probably soon expand its numbers by either two or three seats in the House, depending on the latest vote counts. Here is a thumbnail portrait of its growth over the last three elections:
If all it takes to preclude enforcement of those laws is to self-identify as a journalist, every illegal alien in the country will soon be putting himself forward in that guise.
The people in Congress and the courts who created this mess no doubt were acting in what they thought was the best interests of both the UACs and the nation. But their decisions are having deleterious consequences, both for the children involved and for our system of justice as a whole.
Thousands of cases are heard by immigration judges each year that don't even need to be presented to the courts. Congress has already legislated expedited ways of handling those cases.
