Immigration News

Organizations backed by the billionaire Koch brothers are demanding that the lame-duck Congress pass amnesty for as many as 3.5 million illegal aliens in the DACA category. The Koch brothers are libertarians who favor mass immigration as a means of providing cheap labor to businesses.  Read more at breitbart.com

A U.S. District Court Judge has blocked President Trump policy of denying asylum to people who illegally cross the U.S. border between ports of entry. To apply they must go those ports. Spokesmen for the Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department denounced the ruling. They stated,  "Our asylum system is broken, and it is being abused by tens of millions of meritless claims every year. . . . It is absurd that a set pf advocacy groups can be found to have standing to sue to stop the entire federal government from acting so that illegal aliens can receive a government benefit to which they are not entitled." Read more at cnn.com  

Mexicans in Tijuana continue to protest the arrival of caravan migrants in their city. One stated,  “They entered the country violently, they are demanding services.  .  .  . The United States already said they can’t come, so what’s going to happen?” A large number anti-caravan protesters marched through the streets chanting, “Out of Tijuana” and “Mexico has its own problems.” Many sang the Mexican national anthem.   The Guardian, a left-wing U.K. newspaper, labeled the protesters "racists," even though they and the caravan people are of the same racial background.    Read more at theguardian.com

Members of the migrant caravan seeking to enter the United States admit that they do not qualify for asylum--the alleged reason for their coming. In interviews with The New York Times and the Guardian, migrants have revealed that their real reason is to improve their economic circumstances.  Read more at breitbart.com

Democrats and cheap labor Republicans may push an amnesty for illegal aliens in the upcoming lame-duck session of Congress. One possible strategy may be to offer President Trump funding for a border wall in exchange for signing an amnesty bill for 3.5 million illegal aliens in the DACA category. Immigration reform advocates say this would be a bad deal because a wall alone would do little to stop illegal immigration, while amnesty would be a strong encouragement for more foreigners to come to this country illegally. Outgoing House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) may lead this effort. The billionaire Koch brothers are spending millions of dollars to support a DACA amnesty during the lame-duck session. Read more at thenationalsentinel,com and breitbart.com   

Gallup's most recent global estimate found that "Three percent of the world's adults -- or nearly 160 million people -- say they would like to move to the U.S. This includes 16 percent of adults from Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador, Panama and Costa Rica, which translates into nearly 5 million people." Read more at news.gallup.com

President Trump issued a temporary order requiring asylum applicants to apply for asylum at U.S. ports of entry. Under the order they will not be able to apply after illegally crossing the border outside the ports. The purpose of the order is to asylum requests in an orderly fashion and discourage bogus applications. One likely outcome will be slowing the migrant caravan in Mexico now moving toward the U.S. border. 

Data from the Department of Homeland Security show that less than 10 percent of migrants claiming asylum and have a legitimate basis for that claim. In fiscal year 2018, almost 90 percent of Central American migrants asked for asylum when they arrived at the U.S. border. Only nine percent of those claims were deemed legitimate.  Read more at breitbart.com 

An article in American Thinker rebuts the idea that mass immigration can save retirement benefits for older Americans. The article notes that immigrants can make a contribution because they generally take more in public benefits than they pay in taxes. The article advocates technological development to make the economy more productive in order to fund retirement benefits. Read more at americanthinker.com  

The Center for Immigration Studies reports that "Newly released data show that 2016 tied with 1999 as the highest single year of immigration in U.S. history, with the arrival of 1.75 million new immigrants (both legal and illegal). The new numbers represent a continuation of the dramatic rebound in new arrivals since 2011, when annual immigration bottomed out after the Great Recession."  Read more at cis.org