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NumbersUSA’s public comment on biometrics rule for immigration benefits

By admin

December 31, 2025 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration ServicesU.S. Department of Homeland Security5900 Capital Gateway DriveCamp Springs, MD 20746 RE: DHS Docket No. USCIS-2025-0205Collection and Use of Biometrics by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services NumbersUSA welcomes U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ (USCIS) Notice of ProposedRulemaking (NPRM) related to the collection and use of biometrics, and submits … Continued

2026 will determine the legacy of a historic 2025

By Jeremy Beck

The Laken Riley Act became the first bill to address enforcement failures to be passed by Congress on a bipartisan basis since the 2006 Secure Fence Act. Twenty years ago, the bipartisan support came from the likes of Senators Jeff Sessions (R-AL), John McCain (R-AZ), Joe Biden (D-DE), Hilary Clinton (D-NY) Barack Obama (D-IL), and Charles “Chuck” Schumer (D-NY).

An Overcrowded Nation Under Strain: A Year-end Roundup of U.S. Environmental News

By Philip Cafaro

Overall environmental conditions in the United States deteriorated in 2025, as the nation continued to add more people to already overburdened ecosystems. As the U.S. population reaches 345 million, the country’s environmental problems increasingly reflect a basic mismatch between human numbers and ecological capacity.

Visa lottery in spotlight after university shooting

By Jeremy Beck

There’s already a bill to end the lottery: H.R. 1241 – The SAFE Act (by Mike Collins, GA) would eliminate the visa lottery, which raffles off 55,000 green cards each year without regard to employment skills or family ties. As of this writing, 32 representatives have signed on to H.R. 1241.

House-Passed Kayla Hamilton Act: Bipartisan Commonsense

By Jeremy Beck

The legislation that bears her name takes only modest steps toward a secure system, yet opponents argue that the government should continue to place migrant children with sponsors who are in the country illegally.

Clean Air is Losing Ground to Population Growth

By Henry Barbaro

For decades after the Clean Air Act (1970), new emission standards, cleaner fuels and technological innovations brought steady air quality improvements to America’s metro regions. But those gains have since stalled, as population growth, with its traffic expansion and rising energy demands, overwhelms the benefits of air pollution controls.

Twenty Years Ago Today: House Passed Bipartisan Immigration Reduction and Enforcement Legislation

By Jeremy Beck

On December 16, 2005 – twenty years ago today – the House of Representatives passed H.R. 4437, the Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005, by a vote of 239-182. The legislation included mandatory use of the E-Verify system (phased in over two years), construction of 700 miles of reinforced border fencing, … Continued

A fight we must win: vetting unaccompanied minors and their sponsors

By Jeremy Beck

The Kayla Hamilton Act prioritizes child safety, public safety, and basic accountability. Sen. Cortez Masto’s bill risks reviving the chaos, exploitation, and tragedy that defined the height of the border crisis.

Sen. Gallego sounds the H-1B alarm

By Jeremy Beck

Gallego is not questioning the value of skilled immigrants; he is questioning a system that appears to sideline young Americans even as companies claim no domestic talent exists.