Immigration Blog

Democrats can talk all that they want about their support for border security. What if the face of your party on immigration, however, supports proposals that would allow alien criminals to roam free in the United States?

Extremists have issued implied threats and encouraged the murder of ICE agents from mostly anonymous online perches.

In an address from the White House on January 19, 2019, President Trump offered congressional Democrats significant concessions in order to secure funding for border security. Those included concessions well beyond anything I would've counseled, but it still was not enough. At this point, I'm beginning to wonder whether anything short of capitulation would be.

One of the most troublesome — but small-scale — portions of the annual inflows of legal immigrants consists of 3,000 to 4,000 self-petitioning spouses of citizens. It is worrisome because every one of these entrants is granted a green card because of an odd reason: a failed marriage between a citizen and an alien.

The need for better policing of overstays doesn't eliminate the need for border enforcement as well.

When President Trump spoke to the nation on Saturday, January 19, offering a deal to Democrats in an attempt to end the border wall funding impasse, he laid out several items on his list of demands and proffers:

Although overshadowed by the Trump-Pelosi struggle in Washington, the multiple tunnel operations carried out near San Luis, Ariz., last week, showed that there is real talent on the other side of the border.

We don't need to rely on trace evidence to know that thousands of "special interest aliens", from countries where terror groups are rampant, sneak across the U.S. border each year.

The administration has terminated the participation of the Dominican Republic, Ethiopia, and the Philippines in our unskilled foreign-worker programs because too many visa holders from those nations have turned themselves into illegal aliens.

The suggestions by number-two House Democrat Steny Hoyer sound superficially attractive, as befits platitudes and bloviation when emanating from a seasoned pol. But are they reasonable? I think not.