Newsletter: Immigration didn’t make Congress’s must-do list

By Jeremy Beck

Congress has just 24 legislative days left to leave America with a better immigration policy. Politico published a list of lawmakers’ “must-do” legislation this week and immigration wasn’t on it. The counter on our homepage has been ticking down the days, hours, and seconds since this Congress started in January of last year. Most of … Continued

Newsletter: Booker T. Washington vs. the Dignity Act

By Jeremy Beck

The immigration surge from 2021-2025 was the largest in U.S. history, doubling down on a broken promise that Washington, D.C. has left unacknowledged and unaddressed for sixty years. Voters decisively backed immigration reductions in the 2024 elections. The Dignity Act flies in the face of that mandate. We have an alternative vision. And we need the citizen lobby to rise up and state our preference.

Newsletter – Abolish ICE? Congress built this problem.

By Jeremy Beck

Abolishing ICE would be a radical step toward open borders. Tackling the border crisis with ICE alone is an unsustainable strategy. But these aren’t the only two options. The entire burden of the border crisis cannot be placed on the shoulders of the men and women of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. We have to take the illegal jobs away to encourage more people to return home on their own.

The Securing Agriculture’s Workforce Act Is the Biggest Foreign Guest Worker Expansion in Congress

By Joe Jenkins

Rep. Glenn Thompson (R-Pa.) introduced the Securing Agriculture’s Workforce Act (H.R. 9535) on June 30 with 49 original cosponsors. Supporters describe it as a practical fix for farm labor shortages. In reality, it is the most consequential expansion of the H-2A foreign agricultural worker program introduced in the 119th Congress – a bill that would … Continued

2-0: Today’s SCOTUS Decisions

By Jeremy Beck

The Supreme Court today cleared the way for the government to turn back migrants before they reach the border, and to terminate “Temporary” Protected Status designations that have shielded hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens. These are big wins! The two rulings will help future administrations prevent asylum abuse before it happens, and wind down … Continued

The Gang of Eight Bill (S. 744): Forty Years of Broken Promises

By Joe Jenkins

What “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” Actually Delivered – and Why Its Enforcement Promises Could Never Be Kept More than a decade later, the 2013 “Gang of Eight” bill – the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act, S. 744 – is still invoked as the model for what “comprehensive immigration reform” should look like. Its … Continued

“TPS” Amnesty Vote In House

By Jeremy Beck

President Biden expanded TPS as part of his broader effort to go around immigration limits set by Congress. During the Biden Administration, number of Temporary Protected Status beneficiaries tripled from roughly 400,000 to approximately 1.3 million. Haiti alone expanded from the original 60,000 in 2010 to 350,000 by the end of Biden’s term.

Dignity Act Exposes the Cost of Inaction

By Jeremy Beck

After the largest wave of foreign workers (legal and illegal) in history arrived during the Biden Administration, the Dignity Act would put even more “mass” in mass immigration.

Creating Alliances with Radical Community Builders

By Andre Barnes

My role as HBCU Engagement Director can be very schizophrenic because essentially I have two roles. I am the educator who goes to Historically Black Colleges and Universities and community groups to give presentations about immigration. I am also the agitator who will work with grassroots organizations to conduct polling, organize twitter spaces, and rally … Continued