This week's media coverage shifted from analyzing the importance of immigration policy in the elections to anticipating Trump's actions in his first days in office and his longer-term goals.

READ: Roll Call quoted Eric Ruark in "Trump can make immigration moves on his first day back in office" (Also here, here, here and here) (Nov. 8th)

Homeland Security reporter Chris Johnson discusses Trump's immigration plans, including the potential use of executive orders and actions that could be taken further down the line.

Eric Ruark suggests Trump could end two Biden programs immediately: discontinuing the use of the CBP One App and eliminating the parole program for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans. According to Ruark, Trump could also later target ending birthright citizenship, implementing E-Verify, and restricting funding for sanctuary cities.

LISTEN: Jim Robb appeared on Alabama's Morning News with JT in "Jim Robb looks at the demographic shift of the 2024 election" (Also here, here, here and here) (Nov. 8)

Host JT Nysewander and Jim Robb discuss exit polling, national polls and census data when it comes to the Hispanic population. Jim explains some of the questions asked in Rasmussen's recent national polls which explain the results of Hispanic males voting for candidate Trump. @1:30 - 8:00

READ: Daily Caller quoted Eric Ruark in "Mass Deportations, Cracking Down On Sanctuary Cities And More: Here's What Trump Has In Store For Immigration" (Also here) (Nov. 9)

Immigration reporter Jason Hopkins previews actions President Trump and Congress could implement on immigration when he takes office. Eric Ruark is certain legal challenges will happen. He puts forward what the administration could do on day one:

"Ending the parole abuse," he said, referring to the CHNV program and others like it that have paroled into the U.S. more than half a million foreign nationals during the Biden administration. Around 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans have been flown into the country under the CHNV initiative.

"On day one I think he would end those parole programs," Ruark said. "And people who come in under parole were being allowed -- and I guess they still are -- to sponsor other people to come in, which is a complete violation of the law. So that is something Trump can end on day one."

He also listed the termination of the CBP One app -- which has allowed roughly one million foreign nationals to schedule appointments at ports of entry since it was first rolled out -- and the withholding of federal funds from sanctuary cities as other unilateral actions that Trump will likely embark on immediately.

LISTEN: Jim Robb appeared on The Chris Salcedo Show in "Our Veterans Didn't Fight For The UNELECTED Bureaucracy" (Nov. 11)

Host Chris Salcedo talks to Jim Robb about: the three-way race for the Senate majority leadership; Rasmussen polling of Hispanics voters - in particular, where they stand when it comes to deporting illegal aliens; and who the many Hispanic veterans serving this country should be fighting for (answer: Americans). @1:08:00 - 1:18:00

READ: The Center for Immigration Studies quoted Roy Beck in "The Rise and Fall of the Immigration Act of 1924: A Greek Tragedy" (Nov. 11)

Senior Legal Fellow George Fishman studies the 1924 and 1965 Immigration Acts. He includes Roy Beck's analysis of how the 1924 Act played a major role in advancing Black Americans in the 20th century and writes in detail from Beck's Emancipation Reclamation monograph.

Roy Beck, founder of NumbersUSA, recently set forth an audacious hypothesis that the 1924 Act "was the greatest federal action in U.S. history -- other than the Civil War Constitutional Amendments -- in advancing the economic interests of the descendants of American slavery, and perhaps of all American workers". The Act led to a tighter labor market, resulting in an openness and even a desire by employers both North and South to recruit Black workers. This, in turn, opened the door for the Great Migration of millions of Blacks out of the South and helped pave the way for the civil rights revolution of the 1960s. And it turned America into a middle-class society for whites and for Blacks. Beck's hypothesis is not only plausible, it is the most compelling reading of the historical evidence.

LISTEN: Jim Robb appeared on KURV 710 in "Jim Robb-NumbersUSA" (Nov. 12)

Jim Robb analyzes why "out of control" borders and immigration led voters, particularly Hispanic voters, to help elect Donald Trump. @0:00 - 9:58

READ: The Washington Times highlighted NumbersUSA Grade Cards in "Trump to pick Gov. Kristi Noem to lead Homeland Security" (Nov.12) (Also here)

Reporters Tom Howell, Jr. and Stephen Dinan report on president-elect Trump's expected selection of South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem to head the Department of Homeland Security. The story includes Noem's lifetime C+ NUSA grade and explains how her score was determined.

Ms. Noem during her congressional career earned a lifetime C+ rating from NumbersUSA, which advocates for stricter immigration controls.

The group gave her high marks for her approach to border security and deporting unauthorized immigrants from the interior but middling scores for her votes on reducing guest workers and shrinking asylum claims. The low scores were largely due to her supporting large spending bills that didn't defund Obama-era leniency toward unauthorized immigrants.

READ: The Washington Examiner quoted Eric Ruark in "Deporter in chief: What to expect from Trump's promised mass deportation" (Nov. 12)

Reporter Anna Giaritelli discusses Trump's deportation plans and profiles his border czar Tom Homan. Eric Ruark spoke on the need for Congress to pass mandatory E-Verify::

Eric Ruark, director of research at the nonprofit NumbersUSA in Washington, said Trump ought to get Congress to pass a national mandate for E-Verify, a federal program that immediately checks a person's work status. At present, E-Verify is available to all employers but is not a requirement to vet employees.

NumbersUSA, which is nonpartisan but takes a more rigid approach to immigration, supports a national bill requiring E-Verify.

READ: The Washington Examiner quoted Eric Ruark in "Trump ending CBP One migrant app could have unintended border consequences" (Nov. 14) (Also here and here)

Anna Giaritelli writes on preparations being made by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection in anticipation of an influx of arrivals in the weeks before President-elect Trump takes office. Trump wants to end use of the CBP One app. Giaritelli provides scenarios if Trump gets his wish.

Eric Ruark further explains:

The Biden administration has used parole and [temporary protected status] and the CBP One app to get people in under what they would say is lawful pathways. Are they going to try to expedite those to get more people in and then have a Trump administration deal with the headache of trying to reverse these things," said Ruark. "I would anticipate that they're going to try to expedite getting as many people in before January [2025].

READ: In The Boston Globe's "Letters Little is settled in the immigration debate" David Holzman quotes Roy Beck in "Trump's gains among Latino voters speak to community's fiscal concerns":

As Roy Beck, founder of NumbersUSA, a group that advocates for immigration reform, explains in his 2021 book, "Back of the Hiring Line," employers prefer the most recent immigrants since they are the easiest to exploit.

Thank you,