Immigration Blog

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.

So jailing the parents of truant kids is okay, but not detaining illegal-alien parents who dragged their kids across miles of dangerous terrain so they could serve as get-out-of-jail-free cards?

Cognizant , one of the Indian staffing firms with lots of H-1B workers, seems to be using green card applications strategically as a means of creating an indentured foreign workforce.

Stout and tall fences and a substantial staff of Border Patrol agents are both very useful. But the focus of our leaders and the press should go beyond the flow of new illegals and instead address the problems caused by the stock of millions of illegal aliens already here.

Only a fool would think aliens who become the happy recipients of so-called "blue cards" would continue working in agriculture, knowing the abysmal conditions that so often prevail.

A critique of my new report on failures to appear in immigration court falls short. Here's why.

A new report from the OECD and EU shows that the notion that all immigrants and refugees easily integrate into their host countries and live happily ever after is an illusion. Failed integration is real, and resentment is around the corner; hence the need for immigration policies that prioritize integration measures.

While the large majority of senators voted along party lines, 13 did not, and their votes, or non-votes in four cases, may foreshadow their votes in future immigration policy debates.

Immigration has reduced the proportion of students whose families pay sufficient taxes to cover education costs, creating the ongoing strains on the district budget.