Immigration Blog

The U visa is often abused, but here is a clear-cut case of a totally legitimate use of it.

Really getting serious about immigration and border control, beyond a "Build the Wall" mantra, will require the president or his aides to be willing to get down in the weeds and begin to understand those things that can and should be done outside of the congressional deadlock zone.

The plot for which Rondell Henry is being investigated may well turn out to have no provenance in his home islands. But if it turns out that Henry was traveling back and forth to his homeland, or communicating extensively with foreign terrorist fighters from Trinidad & Tobago, then lessons need to be learned and actions taken.

Just about every agency in sight failed 45 exploited foreign school teachers in the J-1 exchange visitor program run by the State Department — except for a government agency little known outside the District of Columbia, the D.C. Office of the Attorney General.

Here's some irony: John Sandweg, a former head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during the Obama administration, said during a CNN interview that the Trump administration's idea of eliminating immigration judges is the "single dumbest idea I've ever heard".

The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) was given a new lease on life by the House of Representatives last week; it included new protections for some aliens, but none for citizen spouses often falsely accused of abusing their alien wives.

One Obama-era immigration official must be saying (if only to himself) "I told you so," while another faces an ongoing investigation by federal officials.

Collectively, foreign computer programmers do not bring higher skills to America. They simply bring cheap labor.