Immigration Blog

An advance press briefing last week teased that at tonight’s State of the Union address the president would move beyond the current border-security wrangling and offer a grand, new vision for moving forward on immigration, involving something Trump has not said before.

Border barriers can do more than just curb the traffic of aliens and drugs entering this country illegally; they can help to protect the lives of those who protect us.

The inordinate emphasis on alternatives to detaining illegal aliens in proceedings will result in increased costs, decreased compliance with the law, and no deterrence of prospective future illegal aliens.

The proposal would cut funding for detention so much that ICE couldn't even hold all the hardened criminals it encounters, neatly shifting the blame for their release away from the sanctuary jurisdictions.

As long as the United States ignores the need to reform its entry/exit enforcement mechanism, visa overstays will continue to grow as the greatest source of illegal immigration.

A recent visit to California and Arizona shows that form follows function regarding the specific style of barrier that is being used at different parts of the border.

Only a physical barrier prevents aliens from entering illegally and then taking advantage of our weak credible-fear and asylum laws; those are the loopholes that are crushing the system. Unless a "smart wall" comes with real, substantive asylum law changes, the whole thing is a massive shell game.

After two years in office, the Trump administration has finally released its long awaited H-1B regulations. These regulations might best be called "The Swamp Has Taken Over the Trump Administration."

On January 28, 2019, the Catholic News Service (CNS) reported that the government of Mexico had promised "humanitarian visas" to migrants making their way north through the port of Ciudad Hidalgo, on Mexico's border with Guatemala. The visas were good for one year and "allow them to freely travel through Mexico, work in the country and claim social benefits such as health care and education."

The New York Times and other papers reported today on how DHS investigators created a phony visa mill, the "University of Farmington", in Michigan, and how they arrested eight recruiters, all with Indian names, who steered at least 600 phony students to the non-existent university. Everyone concerned knew that the "university" was a hoax designed to secure immigration documents, but until this week no one outside the government knew that it was a sting run by DHS.