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:
The number of real foreign students dropped by 1.3 percent over the last year, but the number of foreign grads taking government-subsidized U.S. jobs while masquerading as students increased by almost 16 percent.
The president made the immigration system, and in particular fixing the immigration system, a key point in his election campaign. Attorney General Jeff Sessions helped President Trump to carry out many of the promises he made to fix that system.
Unless the prison-reform bill currently under consideration specifically excludes deportable aliens, Congress will be making removal of alien criminals — already a hard job — even harder.
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:
