Foreign students and exchange scholars from certain countries — predominantly, but not exclusively, the People's Republic of China — represent an extraordinary risk to the United States through their extracurricular espionage activities.

It is becoming clear that the federal government has finally started to focus in earnest on the danger posed by China's pervasive espionage efforts, particularly in and around U.S. universities and research institutions. 

By Jerry Kammer
If the Democrats fail to return to defending the interests of working Americans who in recent decades have suffered the downside of mass immigration, globalization, and automation, they may antagonize and frighten just enough voters to ensure their own defeat once again.

Imagine the OPT Program as Amnesty for the Well-Educated
By David North
In a highly creative manipulation of the Option Practical Training program, UCLA seems to have gotten away with reclassifying its Masters of Business Administration programs as being in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), thus enabling former foreign students to pretend to still be students for visa purposes and thus work in the U.S. for two extra years (and avoid paying payroll taxes).

DHS Changes Rules for Asylum Work Permit Applications: Would deter frivolous applications and rubber-stamping; more changes to follow
By Andrew R. Arthur 
Elimination of the current 30-day deadline for USCIS to adjudicate asylum work permit applications will discourage aliens from making frivolous asylum claims in hopes of living and working here indefinitely.

Mounting Evidence Points to Covid Refugees from Mexico as a Major Factor in Border-State Spikes
By Todd Bensman
Evidence continues to mount that spikes in Covid cases in U.S. border states are due to successive waves of infected people fleeing Mexico's dysfunctional and overwhelmed hospitals to get American medical care at least as much, if not more than, to the re-opening of those states' economies. 

• DHS Further Tightens Asylum Work-Permit Rules: Removing incentives for frivolous asylum filings, and aligning employment and asylum eligibility
• Yet Another Chinese Citizen Arrested for EB-5 Fraud in California
• DHS/DOJ: Raise Credible Fear Standard for Statutory Withholding and CAT: A familiar burden of proof, and an overdue change
• SCOTUS: Judicial Review Limitation for Expedited Removal Does Not Violate the Constitution: Avoiding a calamitous result, and supporting Congress’s elimination of the 'entry doctrine'
• For the First Time, DHS Estimates the Total Size of the H-1B population: Finally a number reflecting the stock, not just the flow — but it seems low
• EB-5 (Immigrant Investor) Filings Drop to Seven a Month vs. 10,000 a Year
• How Will the New Presidential Proclamation Impact Different Foreign Worker Programs?
• Trump Takes Steps to Protect American Workers
• USCIS Has 5.5 Million Applications Pending, Up 2.2 Million from 2015