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ICE Detains 160 Alleged Aliens at Texas Worksite

Ask any immigration expert and they will tell you that jobs are the magnet that draws aliens to enter the United States illegally, or to overstay their nonimmigrant visas. ICE is now working to turn that magnet off, as a major worksite enforcement action reveals.

Topics: Employment Fraud, Illegal Immigration

Another California Courthouse Arrest, More Phony Outrage

How is it that state judges — including, apparently, the California chief justice — think that they get to pick and choose which laws deserve enforcement and compliance within their buildings?

Topics: Sanctuary Cities, Criminal Aliens

Attorney General Issues Bright-Line Rules for Continuances

Curbing the number of continuances is critical to reducing the immigration court backlog

In another moved intended to reduce the backlog facing the immigration courts, Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a decision on August 16, 2018, in Matter of L-A-B-R-, in which he established bright-line rules for immigration judges to follow in considering continuances.

Topics: Immigration Courts

Refugee and Asylum Adjudication Needs a 'Devil's Advocate'

In refugee and asylum cases, especially, there is value in deliberately introducing a method of questioning impending approvals that is designed to express doubt and put decisions to the rigorous test of reason before those approvals are finalized.

Topics: Refugees and Asylum

A Clean Media Miss: The Murder of San Antonio College Student Jared Vargas by an Illegal Immigrant

Those who survived the June murder of college student Jared Vargas in San Antonio have yet to be inducted as angel families or to see any similar national media attention about their loss, as officials in the sanctuary city of San Antonio reportedly asked them not to speak out.

Topics: Criminal Aliens

Two Immediate Actions Can Be Taken to Manage Migration Better

Many things needed to control international migration take months or years to implement (such as The Wall), but here are two suggestions that could be useful almost immediately.

Topics: Education and Foreign Students, Birthright Citizenship

The First Border-Crosser to Attack in North America

A quest for answers to seven questions

No major traditional U.S. media outlet seems to have noted that Sharif's attack last year in Canada represents North America's first attack by a border-crossing migrant who originally came in from Mexico. And so it follows that few have pressed important questions.

Topics: National Security

Sen. Claire McCaskill's Eleventh Hour Bid to Legislatively Mandate E-Verify

One strongly suspects that McCaskill's decision to introduce the legislation (which will go nowhere) is linked with her struggle to retain her seat, which is up for grabs in the surprisingly tight November election in what has become an increasingly conservative state.

Topics: Politics, E-Verify

EB-5, Yet Again, or 'We Two Kings of Orient Are ...'

Not only am I not making this up, to borrow the words of writer Dave Barry, I am sure that I am neither creative nor imaginative enough to have done so.

Topics: EB-5 Permanent Investor Visa Program

Follow-Up Questions on Omar Ameen's Refugee Resettlement Case

ISIS member Omar Ameen came here as a refugee in 2014. He was recently arrested and awaits extradition to Iraq. But a number of important questions remain unanswered, and answers are needed to prevent similar problems in the future.

Topics: Refugees and Asylum

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Curbing the number of continuances is critical to reducing the immigration court backlog

A quest for answers to seven questions