Immigration News

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reported that illegal border crossings declined in June. DHS Press Secretary Tyler Q.  Houlton noted, "Following the implementation of the Administration's zero tolerance policy, the June 2018 Southwest Border Migration numbers declined by 18 percent when compared to the previous month. DHS will continue to enforce the rule of law and uphold our nation's immigration laws as passed by Congress."

A vocal group of Democrats is proposing to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the federal agency that enforces immigration law. A Harvard-Harris poll asked registered voters if they believed that ICE should be disbanded. Sixty-nine percent said no, and 31 percent said yes. The poll also asked respondents if immigration law enforcement should be strengthened or weakened. Seventy percent called for strengthened enforcement and 30 percent were for less.

Mexico has elected Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a radical leftist as its president. On the topic of migration Obrador has stated, "[S]oon, very soon, after the victory of our movement, we will defend migrants from all over the American continent and the world who, by necessity, have to leave their towns to look for a [better] life in the United States. It is their human right that we are going to defend."  Some commentators are concerned that Obrador will try push Mexico in the direction of Venezuela. Thanks to radical socialist governments, that once relatively prosperous country has collapsed into deep poverty. If Mexico follows that path, the United States will face a new surge of Mexican illegal immigration.

President Trump affirmed that attacks against federal immigration officers will not be tolerated. He stated, "[W]e've heard of shameless attacks on these courageous law enforcement officers. Extremist Democrat politicians have called for the complete elimination of ICE.  .  .  . You know what would happen to parts of our country, it would be overrun with the worst criminal elements you have ever seen.  .  .  .  Left-wing activists are trying to block ICE officers from doing their jobs and publicly posting their home addresses.  .  .  . We will not tolerate attacks on our law enforcement.  .  .  .  We will always stand proudly with our brave heroes of ICE [and] the Border Patrol.

In a move that has disappointed immigration control supporters, President Trump has endorsed the amnesty bill advanced by House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI). The Ryan bill, supported by Republican cheap labor business interests, would grant amnesty to 1.8 million illegal aliens with only modest steps to improve border security. 

The Supreme court upheld President Trump's ban on travel to the United States from a list of mostly Muslim countries for security reasons. Chief...

A Rasmussen poll found that most Americans blame illegal alien parents for the problem of children coming across the Mexican border. Fifty-four percent of respondents expressed this view, compared with 35 percent who place the blame on the Trump Administration. Fifty-four percent also agreed with President Trump's statement that "The United States will not be a migrant camp. And it will not be a refugee-holding facility--it won't be."

The House defeated a bill sponsored by House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) to place significant limits on chain migration. The vote was 193 to 231, with all Democrats and forty-one Republicans voting against it. One reason for its defeat was that the House Republican leadership, under Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), did little lobbying to promote it. Ryan is promoting another bill, one more congenial to the cheap labor interests of the Republican Party, which would leave chain migration much more intact. 

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is a radical left-wing group that regularly smears and maligns people who dissent from its Cultural Marxist dogmas. It stridently attacks immigration control organizations because mass immigration serves the Cultural Marxist agenda of destabilizing American society. One of the SPLC's targets was Maajid Nawaz. The SPLC called him an anti-Muslim extremist and put his organization, the Quilliam Foundation, on its "hate" list. Nawaz responded by threatening a lawsuit. The SPLC backed down, apologized, and agreed to pay Nawaz more than $3 million in compensation. As a consequence of this outcome, other organizations targeted by the SPLC are considering legal action against it . 

A common media narrative is that President Trump initiated the policy of separating adult illegal aliens from the children they bring across the border. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen corrected this narrative at a press conference by noting that the current policy is based on a long-standing law, one followed by both the Bush and Obama Administrations.