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Is Canada Number One in Refugee Resettlement?
By Nayla Rush
According to a recent Pew Research Center analysis of new data from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Canada resettled more refugees than the United States in 2018. This contradicts the analysis I shared last March in which I stated that the United States resettled more refugees than any other nation in both 2017 and 2018. I based my conclusion on a statistical snapshot of UNHCR's resettlement activities in 2018 (figures are for the calendar year) that had the United States as the top resettlement submission and destination country in 2018

EB-5 Booster Reminds Us (Inadvertently) of the EB-5/Suicide Connection
By David North

The EB-5 irony is so thick that you can spread it like peanut butter. We would not have known about this except for a letter-writing supporter of the embattled immigrant investor program. (This is the arrangement that grants a family-sized set of green cards to aliens who place $500,000 — soon to be $900,000 — in a U.S. government-designated, but not guaranteed, investment.)

Why Is the U.S. Government Providing Visas to Affiliates of a Designated Foreign Terrorist Organization?
By Dan Cadman
Addameer, a Palestinian advocacy group that focuses on Palestinians detained by Israel for security violations, including active participation in terrorist acts, is touring the United States. Addameer's tour is supported in part by a group called the the U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN). This shouldn't be a surprise, because Addameer is closely aligned with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a designated foreign terrorist organization.

AG Issues Guidelines on State Criminal-Sentence Modifications
By Andrew R. Arthur
On October 25, 2019, Attorney General (AG) William Barr issued a decision in Matter of Thomas and Matter of Thompson, which will return logic, order, and consistency to assessments by immigration judges (IJs) and the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) of their review of "state-court orders that modify, clarify, or otherwise alter a criminal alien's sentence". The AG will make it easier for those adjudicators to determine whether individual criminal aliens are removable.

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