Parsing Immigration Policy Podcast
Why Immigration Has Become France’s Defining Political Issue
Host: Mark Krikorian
Guest: Nicolas Pouvreau-Monti, the co-founder and executive director of the French immigration think tank L'Observatoire de l'Immigration et de la Démographie (OID)
Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 265
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Commentary
Published in National Review:
El Campamento de los Santos?
By Mark Krikorian, July 31, 2026
Excerpt: My colleague Andrew Arthur notes the contrast between the Spanish Supreme Court’s open-borders ruling and our own Supreme Court’s decision just days before that allowed the president to physically prevent foreigners from crossing the border. The three Democratic justices in dissent shared the suicidal view of their Spanish colleagues, that asylum law in effect applies to foreigners who aren’t even in your country yet.
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Featured Posts
‘The Promise’ of the Refugee Convention?
As UN recommits to the 1951 treaty, Critics Call for Reform
By Nayla Rush
Excerpt: While UNHCR and its supporters are re-committing to the 1951 Refugee Convention on its 75th anniversary, others are denouncing the legal framework drafted in the aftermath of World War II as an obsolete system. In its place, critics are pushing for a new one that takes into account modern day large-scale migration and is less permeable to abuses.
DHS Issues New Rule to Alleviate Affirmative Asylum Backlog
By Elizabeth Jacobs
Excerpt: The rule is designed to reduce USCIS's historic affirmative asylum backlog, which surpassed 1 million pending cases for the first time during the Biden administration and has continued to increase. USCIS now reports approximately 1.43 million pending affirmative asylum applications.
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BIA Orders Alien Voter Removed, Denies Relief
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: How widespread is alien voting? Given the secrecy that surrounds ballots and the unwillingness of states to share their voter information with the federal government, there’s no way to know for sure. That said, this case calls into question the claim that alien voting is “a problem that does not exist” – and it’s an issue the BIA takes very seriously.
The Ceuta Migrant Surge, and the Important SCOTUS Decision Everybody Missed
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: Understanding why the rush of migrants in Spain happened highlights the importance of Mullin v. Al Otro Lado (Spanish, ironically, for “the other side”), the most important U.S. Supreme Court case this last term that most people missed.
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