Reports Biden's Executive Actions:
President Unilaterally Changes Immigration Policy
By Rob Law, March 15, 2021
Excerpt: While the pace of immigration-specific executive actions has slowed recently, it is expected that the Biden administration will continue to rely on executive actions as a tool to reshape immigration policy throughout his term.
Weaknesses in Immigration Vetting
Passing a background check doesn't mean a clean record
By Rob Law, March 18, 2021
Excerpt: Background checks that would be conducted on amnesty applicants have important gaps. Passing a background check or national security check does not mean the alien has a clean record or even that the alien is admissible under the immigration laws. The tools exist to close these immigration vetting vulnerabilities if the Biden administration chooses to avail itself of them.
Featured Blogs House to Consider Two Amnesty Bills This Week in the Midst of Border 'Challenge'
By Andrew R. Arthur
Democrats, who control the House of Representatives, are set to take up two amnesty bills this week, even as what DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has described as a "challenge" (read: crisis, emergency, or disaster) is occurring at the Southwest border. Texas Republican Rep. August Pfluger derided the effort, declaring: "It is one of the most disrespectful and tone-deaf things that I've heard of." He's right — it's like watering petunias in a hurricane.
VAWA, with Its Immigration Provisions, Is Before the House Today
By David North
The problem is that VAWA is full of excellent provisions and is generally popular, but within it — hidden from all but a few of us — are arrangements that allow an alien bride or groom to complain, falsely or not, to the Department of Homeland Security that his or her citizen spouse abused them, and that gives them the right to a self-petitioned green card.
Paid Lawyers for Gang Members and Public-Safety Risks in the Dream Act: Can I be reading this correctly?
By Andrew R. Arthur
There are more than 240,000 employees at DHS, and the secretary is legally responsible for all of them. DHS's components run the gamut from TSA to cybersecurity to the Coast Guard. And in the midst of all of that, the secretary is expected to make decisions about cases involving individual aliens. But it gets stranger yet.
Mark Krikorian, the Center’s executive director, explains the importance of enforcement and legal immigration reductions to offset the over two million ‘Dreamer’ amnesty incorporated into the Dream and Promise Act.
