With the Southwest Border under the control of cartels and American workers struggling to make ends meet, the House of Representatives is spending this week considering a bill to eliminate limits on legal immigration to the United States. The bill is H.R. 3648, the Equal Access to Green Cards for Legal Employment Act of 2022, … Continued
By Jeremy Beck
Some of us took time over Thanksgiving to invoke our ancestors who came to these shores generations ago. For many, our relatives established themselves here during The Great Wave of Immigration. We honor their struggles. We celebrate their perseverance through adversity. We give thanks – for them and for their migration to the land we … Continued
By Andrew Good
We now know that Republicans will have control of the House of Representatives, and Democrats will have the edge in the Senate. And “Whoa, Nellie“… We know immigration was one of the top issues this year. Poll after poll before the election indicated it. Exit polls were even clearer. In the end, immigration just couldn’t … Continued
By Jeremy Beck
“Are you earning too much money?” Briahna Joy Gray asks on a recent episode of Rising. Real wages have been stagnant since the 1970s, but Gray notes (as we have) that the conventional wisdom among the policy elite is that “the real problem here is that workers aren’t working enough and that wages … Continued
By Jeremy Beck
The executive branch caused this border crisis. The legislative branch can end it. President Biden pledged that we wouldn’t see “2 million people on our border” on his watch. He was wrong. How we got here (hat tip, The Washington Post): Biden’s Border Promise (video) At the time he made his pledge, President Biden probably … Continued
By Jeremy Beck
What Hurricane Ian tells us about immigration policy and resiliency Hurricane Ian will likely go down as the most expensive storm in Florida history: $66 billion in property damage and a record number of homes and properties destroyed. The damage is still being calculated. By one measure, Ian is tied for the fifth strongest storm … Continued
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the appeal of U.S. tech workers desperate for a fighting chance for a job today in the latest chapter of a 14-year lawsuit. The workers challenged the power of the Federal government to allow foreign students in the United States to work, while being exempt from Social Security … Continued
By Christy Shaw
Senator Manchin was right to call out Vice President Harris’s delusional claim that the border is secure. His firm reproach of her false claim, saying she is “dead wrong,” is also timely given that just in this year alone the Department of Homeland Security has so far recorded an unprecedented 2.2 million southern border apprehensions. … Continued
By Lisa Irving
Since this past spring, thousands of migrants have been sent by Republican governors from the southern border to several sanctuary cities via buses and planes. The mayors of these targeted cities, along with other Democratic leaders and many media outlets, have been denouncing the buses and flights using stark terms, declaring that Republicans are playing … Continued
