BIA Decision Demonstrates Weaknesses in Removal Process: Does China own the State Department?
By Andrew R. Arthur
In this case, I guess that the PRC owns the State Department — it has so much trade with the United States ($634.8 billion, both imports and exports in 2019), and sends so many of its nationals, the United States apparently cannot afford to impose visa sanctions. So decades pass, and Chinese nationals under removal orders remain. Even if they have been found to have filed frivolous asylum applications.

DoL IG's Report Is a Devastating Critique of Foreign Worker Programs
By David North
While largely written in the careful — color it grey — terminology of government reports, this one includes these sentences on its third page: "The PERM program relentlessly has employers not complying with the qualifying criteria. Therefore, the PERM and H-1B programs remain highly susceptible to fraud."

Time for Local Communities, the Media, and Both Parties to Wake Up to the Dangers of MS-13
By Andrew R. Arthur
The sadly ironic thing is that those immigrant communities are usually located in areas that are designated as "sanctuary jurisdictions", that is areas that refuse to cooperate with ICE in identifying, arresting, or removing alien criminals in one way or another. They usually – either directly or obtusely – contend that they are doing so to protect the immigrant community.

Border Patrol Cocaine and Fentanyl Seizures Up in October: Not all drugs come through ports of entry
By Andrew R. Arthur
CBP has released its enforcement statistics for October (the first month of FY 2021). It shows that seizures of cocaine and fentanyl are up slightly over September (the last month of FY 2020). There is an additional, more interesting statistic that you really have to look for, as well – Border Patrol drug seizures at the border, as opposed to at interior checkpoints. That statistic suggests the border is more porous when it comes to drugs than many imagine.

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• Dysfunctional by Design: New H-1B prevailing-wage rule won't change much without changes to the statute
• USCIS, in a Nice Touch, will offer the Naturalization Test in Braille
• A Roundup of Marriage-Related Immigration Fraud Items
• Should Legal Status Be a Factor When the Vaccine is Distributed?