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On Inauguration Day, An Immigrant’s Son Sends a Hopeful Message
Just days before Donald Trump’s inauguration, I read a heartening guest opinion column that...
on Jan 20, 2017New DHS Secretary John Kelly Should Act Swiftly to Clean up TPS Mess
Last week, the Department of Homeland Security quietly announced that, effective March 18, 2017,...
on Jan 19, 2017Rep. Chaffetz: ‘The Legal Immigration System is Broken’
U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) has introduced an important new bill aimed at reducing asylum fraud...
on Jan 18, 2017Environmental Justice and Immigration
Back in 1994, President Bill Clinton signed Executive Order 12898, entitled “Executive...
on Jan 17, 2017Martin Luther King, Jr. and Cesar Chavez on Immigration
Today’s Black and Latino Leaders are Embarrassed by their Views Over at National Review, Ian...
on Jan 16, 2017MLK Friend and Advisor: High Immigration that Displaces Black Workers Would ‘Outrage’ King
After spending more than 30 years on the immigration beat, one mystery puzzles me more than the...
on Jan 16, 2017A Matter of Taste, Judgment
Watching Meryl Streep at the Golden Globes last weekend made me nostalgic for Marlon Brando’s...
on Jan 14, 2017Obama Beats Trump to the Punch, Ends Wet Foot, Dry Foot
On January 12, President Barack Obama announced that, effective immediately, he would end the...
on Jan 14, 2017In Obama’s Final Days, Immigration Abuses Pile up, Americans Count Down to Jan. 20
President-elect Donald Trump, Sen. Jeff Sessions and Gen. John Kelly, the Attorney General and...
on Jan 12, 2017CA State Sen. Lara Back at it…More for Illegal Immigrants, Less for Citizens
California State Senator Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens) is promoting yet another round of expanded...
on Jan 11, 2017Feds Funding Deported Illegal Immigrants Living Back Home
For Americans who understandably can’t make heads or tails out of U.S. immigration policy,...
on Jan 10, 2017Giraffe Populations Plummet in Africa
Yet Another Iconic Animal Threatened by Human Overpopulation Earth is the only place in an...
on Jan 09, 2017The Obama Administration’s Swan Song BLS Report: 95.1 Million Not in Labor Market
In December, the economy created 157,000 jobs, about 20,000 less than Wall Street analysts...
on Jan 06, 2017‘Family Man,’ Illegal Alien Martinez-Maldonado Rapes 13-Year-Old Girl
For all of the 30 years that I’ve been following immigration, the argument against building a...
on Jan 05, 2017Overpopulation, Development, Stagnation, Migration and Vindication
Rejecting demographic reality should not be rewarded. Back in 1994, the Los Angeles Times...
on Jan 04, 2017New York's Suffolk County Reverses its Sanctuary Policy
In the first of what will be many reversals of sanctuary city policies, Suffolk County (N.Y.)...
on Jan 03, 2017In 2017, Trump Needs to Deliver on his Campaign Pledges
For the first time in history, a presidential candidate ran on a platform that espoused as its...
on Dec 31, 2016Tinkering with the Visa Waiver Program
The Visa Waiver Program (VWP) is back in the news, but this time with an encouraging note. The...
on Dec 30, 2016Let’s Start the New Year by Resolving to be Honest about Immigration
President-elect Donald Trump was the only candidate in the 2016 race for the White House to propose...
on Dec 29, 2016Donald Trump to CAPS Members, America: Merry Christmas!
Early in his campaign, President-elect Donald Trump promised a fired-up crowd of supporters that,...
on Dec 23, 2016