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After his address Saturday offering a compromise to end the partial government shutdown, the best thing the president could have done was stand pat, say nothing, and allow the details of the proposal speak for themselves. But that often isn't the president's way.

Topics: Politics

Turkey-Based Schools in U.S. Continue to Attract Negative Attention

This time, a non-Gulen Turkish school in the U.S. is having problems with accreditation.

Topics: Education and Foreign Students

Enough with the 'Either-Or' Wall Arguments

Trump doesn't want just a wall

I am convinced that the government shutdown will end when I run out of "wall" arguments to refute. Regrettably, that day never comes.

Topics: Border Wall

About 40% of H-1B Jobs Give Employers a Tidy $40,000/Year Discount

A new report shows that while employers and their lobbyists talk about the H-1B program as being designed to bring America the "best and the brightest" of the foreign workers, they actually pay the vast majority of these workers at substandard wages.

Topics: H-1B Nonimmigrant Visa Progam

New Bill Would Swell H-2B Program to Over 100,000 Annually

Sen. Thune's "Prioritizing Help to Businesses Act" (S.135) would ensure that employers wouldn't have to raise wages and expand their recruitment efforts in order to fill less-skilled jobs.

Topics: H-2B Nonimmigrant Visa Progam

Jon Meacham Misuses a Reagan Anniversary to Preach the Gospel of Open Borders

The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author's open-borders vision is admirable in its good intentions, but like many sweeping policy proposals from ideologues, it is a formula for overreach and excess.

Topics: Media Coverage of Immigration Policy

Blue Flu at TSA and Elsewhere in DHS?

There can be no excuse for letting the American public down; what's happening is not their fault. DHS employees owe them their presence at work.

Topics: Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

Breaking Down TRAC's Surprising Asylum Stats

Representation was up, but so were denials

The actual reasons behind the increase in asylum denials is not clear from the TRAC report. But increased resources, efforts by DOJ to speed removal cases, and a shift in focus from the prior administration to the present one likely had a significant effect.

Topics: Immigration Courts

USCIS Should Take a Stand Against Child Marriage

There's no minimum age for spousal immigration, but the marriage is required to be "valid". Defining underage marriages as not valid for immigration purposes would end up in court, but it would be worth the fight even if DHS were to lose.

Topics: Marriage Fraud