Immigration Blog

We don't need to rely on trace evidence to know that thousands of "special interest aliens", from countries where terror groups are rampant, sneak across the U.S. border each year.

The administration has terminated the participation of the Dominican Republic, Ethiopia, and the Philippines in our unskilled foreign-worker programs because too many visa holders from those nations have turned themselves into illegal aliens.

The suggestions by number-two House Democrat Steny Hoyer sound superficially attractive, as befits platitudes and bloviation when emanating from a seasoned pol. But are they reasonable? I think not.

After his address Saturday offering a compromise to end the partial government shutdown, the best thing the president could have done was stand pat, say nothing, and allow the details of the proposal speak for themselves. But that often isn't the president's way.

This time, a non-Gulen Turkish school in the U.S. is having problems with accreditation.

I am convinced that the government shutdown will end when I run out of "wall" arguments to refute. Regrettably, that day never comes.

A new report shows that while employers and their lobbyists talk about the H-1B program as being designed to bring America the "best and the brightest" of the foreign workers, they actually pay the vast majority of these workers at substandard wages.

Sen. Thune's "Prioritizing Help to Businesses Act" (S.135) would ensure that employers wouldn't have to raise wages and expand their recruitment efforts in order to fill less-skilled jobs.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author's open-borders vision is admirable in its good intentions, but like many sweeping policy proposals from ideologues, it is a formula for overreach and excess.