The crisis in America’s asylum system has its roots in the Refugee Convention of 1951’s “non-refoulement” obligation to not return aliens to their persecutors. Paradoxically, the Convention’s drafters emphatically rejected the notion of adding a right to asylum. 

Nevertheless, the non-refoulement obligation itself is in many cases indistinguishable from a right to asylum because of the difficulty of finding third countries willing to accept aliens who claim to fear persecution.

The Welcome Corps is a private sponsorship program designed by the Biden-Harris administration to create opportunities for private individuals in the U.S. to select their own “refugees” and future American citizens. Sponsored individuals do not need to actually be refugees according to the UNHCR Refugee Status Determination, let alone in that subset of refugees determined by the UN to be in “need of resettlement”.

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A Report from Colombia

A new Center for Immigration Studies video report uncovers one of the world’s most organized human smuggling operations. It operates out of a northwest Colombia village named Capurgana and is controlled by a paramilitary organization called the Gaitanist Self Defense Force of Colombia (a/k/a the Clan del Golfo), which controls the area with an iron fist.

The legislation that Kamala Harris championed during her four years in the U.S. Senate reveals a disturbingly extreme immigration agenda. Sen. Harris introduced or co-sponsored a wide array of bills designed to negatively impact the ability of DHS to enforce our nation’s immigration laws.

Read also: Kamala Harris Tried to Take $220 Million Out of ICE’s Enforcement Division

The foreign-born or immigrant population (legal and illegal) hit new record highs in March 2024 of 51.6 million and 15.6 percent of the total U.S. population. Since March 2022 the foreign-born population has increased 5.1 million, the largest two-year increase in American history.