Share Tweet Share Commentary Immigration and the Aging Society By Steven Camarota National Affairs, June 22, 2021 Excerpt: The idea that immigration is the solution to the aging of American society has become an article of faith among those arguing for ever-higher levels of new arrivals. They assert that, in societies such as the United States, where fertility rates are low relative to historic patterns, the native population will not supply enough workers to maintain a robust economy and pay for government services, particularly retirement programs. If native-born Americans aren't going to have enough children to balance the longer-lived elderly population, the argument goes, then our only option is to increase immigration levels. It's not a crazy argument; it just happens to be incorrect. In reality, a significant body of research shows that the impact of immigration on population aging is small. While immigration can certainly make our population larger, it does not make us dramatically younger. Kamala Harris’s Layover in El Paso By Mark Krikorian National Review, June 25, 2021 Excerpt: So Harris’s visit to the border isn’t the end of her immigration problem — it’s just the beginning. Whether she likes it or not, her stopover in El Paso definitively establishes her as the administration point person on border issues. The visit ensures that she has, in the words of the L.A. Times report, “becom[e] more closely tied to one of the Biden administration’s diciest political problems.” It doesn’t bode well for her political future. Podcasts Cash-Assistance Programs Benefiting Illegal Immigrants Guest: Steven Camarota Moderator: Mark Krikorian Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 9 June 24, 2021 We Are All Less Safe: Biden Targets ICE Law Enforcement Program Guest: Jon Feere Moderator: Mark Krikorian Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 8 June 17, 2021 Featured Blogs Biden Administration Erases ICE’s ‘Most Wanted’ List for Victims of Illegal Alien Crime By Jon Feere Media should reach out to Biden political appointees in DHS and ask, How many drunk-drivers will they allow to go free this year, despite having no permission to be in the United States? How many people will suffer as a result?   Immigration that Even USCIS Sees as Troublesome By David North The program is a small one, involving only a few hundred green cards a year, and deals with a minor class of aliens — those who claim that their adult, citizen children have mentally or physically abused them. At least one case was rejected because the alleged abuse of the non-citizen parent by the citizen child supposedly happened when the child was 10.   If and When VP Harris Does Visit the Border, Don’t Expect Her to Go Where Its Collapse Can Be Seen By Todd Bensman Harris will be able to check the box by, say, helicoptering over an empty stretch of Arizona desert or be seen walking or driving along the border where all the illegal immigrants are hiding or have been cleared out ahead of time. Smuggler Driving 12 Migrants Leads Cops on High-Speed Chase in McAllen, Texas: The natural consequence of a lack of interior enforcement, as Governor Abbott vows to build a wall By Andrew Arthur Increasing numbers of migrants are trying to evade Border Patrol safe in the knowledge that if they succeed and make it to the interior of the country, ICE under the Biden administration almost definitely won’t remove them. 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