Reports
DACA: Delinquent Aliens, Criminal Aliens
By George Fishman, November 22, 2022
Excerpt: Despite the successful framing of DREAMers and DACA recipients as young people with no criminal records, it turns out that many were affiliated with gangs and many had arrest records when granted DACA benefits, and many others saw their DACA status terminated because of criminal activity. As USCIS has admitted, “[t]he truth is that we let those with criminal arrests for sexually assaulting a minor, kidnapping, human trafficking, child pornography, or even murder be provided protection from removal.”
California Dreamin’
Can California state universities legally hire illegal aliens?
By George Fishman, November 28, 2022
Excerpt: Hopefully, good sense will prevail, and the proposal to allow California public universities to hire illegal aliens will never advance beyond advocacy pieces. The Supreme Court mentioned as an aside in Hoffman that “awarding backpay [to an illegal alien] ... not only trivializes the immigration laws, it also condones and encourages future violations.” It could just as easily be said that allowing state universities to knowingly hire and employ illegal aliens trivializes the immigration laws, and condones and encourages future violations.
Mexico’s First Muslim Immigrant Shelter: A U.S. National Security Perspective
CIS travels to Tijuana to fill an information deficit
By Todd Bensman, November 30, 2022
Excerpt: While immigrant shelters in Tijuana and other northern Mexican border cities brim mainly with Spanish-speakers, this two-story, 8,000-square-foot former bar is the only one that expressly caters to Muslims, who arrive by taxi and Uber daily at its gated door from all over the Islamic world, including Yemen, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Lebanon, Egypt, Morocco, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Somalia, and other countries in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia.
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Podcast
Rep. Tiffany on Withholding Visas from Countries
Host: Mark Krikorian
Guests: Rep. Tom Tiffany and Jon Feere
Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 81
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Commentary
As Big Tech Layoffs Explode, Companies Must Prioritize Retaining American Workers
By Elizabeth Jacobs
Newsweek, November 23, 2022
Excerpt: Current rules are ineffective at protecting American workers from unfair competition, wage suppression, and displacement in the workplace. These minimal protections include limits on the duration of H-1B visas as well as labor certification requirements, under which employers pledge to the U.S. Department of Labor that hiring foreign workers will not negatively impact their current workforce and that the foreign workers they are seeking will be adequately paid. Too often, however, one or both of these assurances are never realized.
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Featured Posts
The Wall Street Journal’s Evolving Views on “Open Borders”
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: The Wall Street Journal’s two-decade-old call for “open borders” wasn’t meant to be a policy prescription. September 11 revealed, however, why it was not only a bad idea, but a dangerous one. Despite that, open borders are the Biden administration’s unofficial (but de facto) policy and an experiment we’re living through.
Speaker-Presumptive Targets Mayorkas
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: To attain the speakership, McCarthy will have to prove to those on the right of his conference that he is serious about illegal immigration and that he will hold the White House and the secretary accountable for the disaster unfolding on the Southwest border. On Tuesday, he took the first step in doing so.
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Congress Must Investigate Border Patrol Suicide Spike
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: Lost in the disaster that is the Southwest border is a recent spike in suicides among Border Patrol agents. The Biden administration hasn’t given any indication that it’s concerned about the matter, so it’s incumbent on Congress to use its oversight powers to get to the bottom of why trained agents are taking their own lives at what appear to be record rates this year.
Report: “Family Separation” Continues Under Biden
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: The Texas Observer reported recently that the Biden administration is continuing a policy that he derided as a candidate and purportedly ended (at a huge cost to taxpayers) as president—“family separation” of migrant adults and children who entered as “family units” (FMUs). There is a lot of emotion in that article, but enough facts to get a sense of what’s going on.
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