The growing case that immigration-fueled housing prices are driving inflation. As former Clinton staffer and writer William A. Galston wrote for the liberal Brookings Institute website last month, inflation is “President Biden’s biggest political problem.” Around that same time, I saw an interesting Tweet from Roosevelt Institute scholar Mike Konczal breaking down different aspects of … Continued

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This story was originally posted in the March 19th Newsletter. Total encounters of illegal aliens at the Southwest border remained steady at 154,998 in February, marking the 24th consecutive month that encounters exceeded 150,000. Of the nearly 155,000 encounters, Border Patrol agents made 128,877 apprehensions of illegal border crossers. The rest (26,211) were illegal aliens … Continued

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Another Department of Homeland Security (DHS) catch and release policy bites the dust. Florida Judge T. Kent Wetherell II reviewed the DHS “Parole + Alternatives to Detention (ATD)” policy in a fiery opinion that must be read to be believed. This policy allowed Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to release aliens without a Notice to … Continued

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Here we go again…again. Maybe you thought indentured servitude and forced labor were only found in the agricultural sector of our immigration system, but now we have a nurse filing a lawsuit and seeking a class action certification against her employer. This employer is Health Care Facility Management which is doing business and known as … Continued

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Migrants move to improve their quality of life. This is true of a “Yankee” moving to South Carolina, a Californian moving to Colorado or a Venezuelan coming to the United States. When the numbers get too high, when the demands on infrastructure and resources become too great, the quality of life at those destinations diminishes … Continued

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) takes a lot of the heat for the crumbling border and the chaos it causes in our communities for good reason. The Republicans in the House of Representatives are talking seriously about impeaching Secretary Mayorkas for his total abdication of responsibility to enforce our immigration laws and for endangering … Continued

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Amid border happenings, sanctuary policies outrages, and declarations that New York City is “full” of migrants, the underlying truth about the immigration battle is that it is fundamentally between those with an insatiable appetite for more foreign workers, and those who embrace the social good of tight labor markets. The economic question has the deepest … Continued

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You may have heard from some circles that the Biden Administration is proposing to ban asylum and that it is an example of President Biden adopting policies of former President Donald Trump. These critics either have not read the proposed rule or believe even attempting bureaucratic virtue signaling to deter migrant flows at the border … Continued

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Second verse, same as the first. H-2A agricultural workers from Mexico are suing their domestic employers for unpaid wages. Allegations include failure to reimburse for the costs of obtaining their visas (as had been promised), the promised wage rate in their contract not matching what they were actually paid, and failure to pay overtime. Additionally, … Continued

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