Panel
OVERRUN - The Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History
Reporting-based analysis on the causes, dimensions, and impacts
Participants
* Todd Bensman, the Center's Texas-based Senior National Security Fellow and author of “Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History” and “America’s Covert Border War: The Untold Story of the Nation’s Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration”.
* Chuck Holton, the author of seven books, is a freelance correspondent and award winning war reporter.
* Charlotte Cuthbertson, is a senior reporter for the Epoch Times who covers the Texas border.
* Mark Krikorian (moderator), is the Center’s Executive Director.
Panel Video and Transcript
Link to book: OVERRUN: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in American History
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Podcast
OVERRUN - The Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History
Host: Mark Krikorian
Guests: Todd Bensman, Chuck Holton, and Charlotte Cuthbertson
Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 93
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Commentary
Biden’s new Bizarro border move just waves in more illegal migrants
By Mark Krikorian
New York Post, February 24, 2023
Excerpt: The Biden administration has created a Bizarro World immigration policy. The law as written places the burden of proof on a foreigner to show why he should be let in — but that burden is now on immigration officers to show why someone should be kept out.
DeSantis Calls for Universal E-Verify in Florida
By Jason Richwine
National Review, February 24, 2023
Excerpt: Without E-Verify as a tool to counter illegal immigration to his state, DeSantis has pursued lesser measures – filing lawsuits, limiting state support for migrant shelters, and flying migrants to Martha’s Vineyard before they could come to Florida. While the governor’s tenacity is admirable, these efforts have only a modest impact on the illegal immigration problem. That’s why it’s so encouraging to see him trying again for universal E-Verify.
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Featured Posts
Pennsylvania County Scraps Sanctuary Policy
By Jessica M. Vaughan
Excerpt: Determined to avoid protecting criminal aliens and attracting illegal immigration, the prison board of Butler County, Pa., voted unanimously to reverse policies that kept county prison officers from maximizing cooperation with ICE to remove deportable inmates.
NBC News: Administration Leaves Released Migrants in ‘Legal Limbo’
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: I recently asked how long DHS is waiting before it places the hundreds of thousands of migrants it has caught and released at the Southwest border into removal proceedings. NBC News has reported that the migrants themselves are asking more or less the same question.
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Buttigieg Is Wrong: Immigrants, Not the U.S.-Born, Are Over-Represented in Construction
By Steven A. Camarota
Excerpt: Transportation Secretary Buttigieg recently implied that there are too many native-born white construction workers and suggested that more of these relatively good-paying jobs need to go to minorities. It turns out, however, that it is immigrants (legal and illegal) who are significantly over-represented in construction.
Mayorkas and McCarthy Battle Over ‘Operational Control’ of the Southwest Border
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: A surprisingly specific provision of federal law defining the secretary of Homeland Security’s obligation to “achieve and maintain operational control over” the Southwest border has emerged as a flashpoint between the current secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, and Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.).
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