How America’s immigration surge is linked to wetlands loss
Legal and illegal immigration now amount to the rough equivalent of a new Los Angeles every year – a factor in the loss of 60,000 acres of wetlands every year.
Category: Challenges
Senate Immigration Deal Fails to Measure Up Against Barbara Jordan’s Credibility Yardstick
By Jeremy Beck
The Senate’s $118 billion border bill fails to measure up to Barbara Jordan’s simple yardstick to measure credible enforcement. Here are some of the details:
Senate Border Bill Codifies Biden Border Policies
By Jared Culver
If one thing is certain today, it is that President Biden’s border policies have been a disaster. He came into power rescinding policies like Remain in Mexico and expanding parole for aliens entering the United States illegally. With each policy step he takes, border numbers increase. As the numbers increase, more states and localities declare … Continued
Biden Legal Pathways Strategy Meets Reality
By Jared Culver
As we prepare to leave January 2024 behind (already!?), the Biden Administration has finally confirmed that there were a record 371,436 encounters of illegal immigrants nationwide, with 302,034 of those encounters at the border, alone, in just this past December. The Administration also bragged about recruiting and releasing, under parole, approximately 327,000 individuals from countries … Continued
“Worker Shortage” or Employer Preference?
By Jeremy Beck
There is a long history of legislation siding with employers’ preferences for foreign labor over Black Americans. We have the receipts.
Treat Essential Workers Better
By Roy Beck
Most of the people celebrated as “essential workers” during the pandemic were part of the working classes whose interests had been ignored and devalued for decades by the makers of immigration policies — policies that had steadily depressed their wages and their labor participation rates. And, of course, many of them were immigrants themselves who now found their climb up the economic ladder depressed by each annual legal arrival of a million more permanent competitors, not counting the unauthorized foreign workers.
Immigration and the 54th Anniversary of NEPA
The month of January marks the 54th anniversary of when the modern environmental movement started. In the 1970s major environmental protection initiatives became law starting with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), which requires that all federal agencies evaluate the environmental impacts of their actions.
Math reflects Mayhem on the Border
By James Massa
NumbersUSA explains how unprecedented border crossings are impacted by effort of President of Mexico
Immigration Policy and American Wilderness
By Jeremy Beck
America’s intact landscapes comprise 50% or more of the country. We have far more wilderness than most nations. A better immigration policy would go a long way toward protecting this rich resource and heritage.