Journal Article
The Cost of Illegal Immigration
By Steven A. Camarota
National Affairs, June 18, 2024
Excerpt: The chaos at the border in recent years, along with even Democrat-run cities complaining about its impact, have cast into stark relief one of the central issues såurrounding illegal immigration: its fiscal costs. Unfortunately, most discussions on the subject tend to be filled with misconceptions, half-truths, and at times even outright falsehoods.
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Commentary
Amnesties All the Way Down
By Mark Krikorian
National Review, June 18, 2024
Excerpt:The amnesty the White House announced today is simply the latest — and maybe not even the largest — of its many unilateral decrees legalizing and/or letting into the country individuals who have no right to be in the United States. Unless Congress is willing to completely cede its power over immigration, as it has over war-making, it will at some point need to radically restrict a president’s discretion, in detail and without waivers or wiggle room.
Donald Trump, Immigration Expansionist
By Mark Krikorian
National Review, June 21, 2024
Excerpt: This week’s comments by Trump really were more preposterous than usual. While he cited “people who are No. 1 in their class in top colleges,” he specifically added that foreign students getting a two-year degree from “junior colleges” should also automatically get green cards. Even lobbyists for higher ed and the tech industry aren’t this brazen. They exploit the appeal of keeping the “best and brightest” among foreign students as a means of protecting broader cheap-labor schemes, but I’ve never heard one seriously argue for giving green cards to graduates of community colleges.
After Suspected Tajik Terrorist Arrests, Little-Known Biden Border Entry Program Demands Hard Focus
By Todd Bensman
The Daily Wire, June 20, 2024
Excerpt: A multi-state FBI counterterrorism wiretap sting has rolled up eight Tajikistani nationals in three cities who had entered over the U.S. Southwest Border and were plotting some sort of bombing.
House Committee Demands Answer on Eight Tajik Border Crossers Arrested for Terror Plot
By Todd Bensman
New York Post, June 18, 2024
Excerpt: In a new letter, House Homeland Security Committee Mark Green and several subcommittee leaders are demanding that Alejandro Mayorkas, secretary of Homeland Security, disclose whether border agencies could have known of terrorism connections when the Tajik Eight first crossed, and how those agencies handled the immigrants after their releases through to the moment the FBI alerted them about plot.
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Podcast
De Facto Amnesty for Half a Million Illegal Immigrants
Host: Mark Krikorian
Guest: Andrew R. Arthur
Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 160
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Featured Posts
This Week's Other Quasi-Amnesty
By Elizabeth Jacobs
Excerpt: By expediting and streamlining DACA beneficiaries’ access to this type of waiver, the Biden administration believes more DACA beneficiaries will apply for and receive work visas, giving them lawful immigration statuses in the United States and be potentially placed on pathways to citizenship.
Gov. Wes Moore (D-Md.) Blames Congressional Republicans for Border Fiasco Following Migrant Murder
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: Gov. Moore’s ill-informed comments on the merits of the Senate border bill do nothing to protect Marylanders, two of whom were allegedly raped and murdered by illegal migrants. He has instead chosen to parrot political talking points on a bill that would undermine — not advance — border security. It’s a bad choice.
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Biden Has Paroled In Two Million-Plus Inadmissible Aliens
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: Congress is supposed to decide how many new aliens can come here, but the Biden administration doesn’t care. It’s running its own alternative immigration program using its extremely narrow parole power, completely divorced from congressional limits, and thus from the say of the American people.
To Justify His New Border Rule, Mayorkas Fesses Up to the Harm Caused by His Mass Releases
By George Fishman
Excerpt: In issuing his new border rule, Secretary Mayorkas had to disavow positions he has consistently taken during his tenure and forced him to admit to the harm caused by his mass release of aliens apprehended at the border.
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Todd Bensman discusses several different cases where those on terror watchlists or others who went on to attempt terror-related activities were released at the southern border.
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