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A Terror Case the "Travel Ban" Would Have Prevented

A lawsuit challenging the policy advances

A Somali terrorist case shows why the ongoing legal challenge to the "travel ban" against eight countries is so wrong-headed.

Topics: National Security

Border Patrol's Expensive New Mission

A law enforcement agency is now tasked with being caretaker for thousands of members of family units and unaccompanied alien minors.

Topics: Customs and Border Protection (CBP)

DHS Files Many Indictments in an Attack on Birth Tourism

It was good to see ICE move against birth-tourism operations, but an ounce of prevention (at visa offices and airports) would be better than a pound of cure.

Topics: Birthright Citizenship

Will Another 3,750 Military Members on the Border Do Any Good?

Absent changes in the rules that are encouraging widespread asylum abuse, freeing up Border Patrol agents by sending more National Guard troops to the border just speeds up the process of releasing illegal aliens into the U.S.

Topics: Border Wall, Influx of Unaccompanied Minors

Indian National Sues Indian Firm for Being Anti-Indian

The satirical magazine The Onion would reject a spoof piece on what follows because it is so far out.

The law and journalism schools that produced the lawyers and the reporter in the case probably won't be bragging about these graduates.

And the parents of the plaintiff probably would deny they ever met that person.

These are the facts:

Topics: H-1B Nonimmigrant Visa Progam

Fact-Checking the Fact-Checker on Migration from Islamic Countries

A call for corrections in the New York Times

The New York Times fact-checker is not alone among reporters and pundits in her false characterizations of the potential threat posed by people from countries of terrorism concern coming to the southern border.

Topics: National Security, The New York Times Coverage of Immigration

House Judiciary Democrats Go After 'Family Separation Policy'

The tunnel vision of the ruling class

Democrats are responsible for the immigration loopholes that serve as an "attractive nuisance" for Central Americans, enticing them to utilize their children as pawns in a gambit to enter the United States illegally and live here indefinitely.

Topics: Politics, Illegal Immigration

D.C. Gives Advocacy Group $100,000 for Noncitizen Outreach

While $100,000 is only a drop in the bucket of the city's $14.5 billion budget, it is still enough to raise questions. Could this grant have gone to a prominent D.C. charity fighting to improve the city for *all* residents, citizen and non-citizen alike?

Topics: Assimilation and Citizenship