Immigration News

Leo McKinstry, British journalist and author, writing in the Express of London today has strong words for the politicians allowing a mass invasion of Europe from...

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), a leading Republican supporter of amnesty in the House, said that the GOP House leadership doesn't have the votes "right now" to pass amnesty. He added that work continues on finding a "consensus" for doing so.

A new poll reveals that sixty percent of likely voters oppose provisions in the Senate's immigration bill to increase substantially the number of foreign workers admitted to the United States. Three-quarters said that there are enough unemployed Americans to fill jobs.

John Banzhaf, a law professor at George Washington University, stated that the proposal to ban Muslim immigration is permissible under the Constitution. This viewpoint, he maintained, is “consistent with that of most people who know constitutional law.”

A writer for Forbes complains that President Trump's restriction of H-1B visas will create a "tight market" for tech workers, i.e., a market where...

Using data from the Census Bureau, the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) found that immigration (legal and illegal) rose sharply last year. In the first six months of 2016 1.03 million immigrants settled in the U.S. As the CIS notes, "This represents a 13 percent increase over the same period in 2015, a 21 percent increase over 2014, and a 53 percent increase over 2011, when new immigration reached a low point after the recession. " The CIS estimates that the total of new arrivals through all of last year was 1.8 million.  That number would match 1999, the year with the highest total of immigrants in American history.

According to Richard Fisher, the former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Houston cannot be rebuilt in the wake of Hurricane Harvey without "Mexican labor." He did not specify as to whether they would be legal or illegal. Research suggests, however, sufficient numbers of American construction workers are available to do the work. The Center for Economic and Policy Research found that there are 3.3 unemployed construction workers for every 2.5 job openings. Commenting on this and other data, the Daily Caller commented that "there are unemployed and underemployed workers whom Texas builders could recruit to rebuild Houston. Part of that strategy could also include offering higher pay to match wage growth in other sectors of the economy."

The Biden administration has revealed, in a just-published report, that last year, the CBP encountered and then released an illegal migrant in Arizona on...

The Center for Immigration Studies has looked at currrent Census figures and issued a new analysis. Among other findings, their analysis reveals the following: ...

Two Christian leaders strongly criticized the claim of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor that granting amnesty to illegal aliens in the Dream Act category is the "biblical" thing to do. The two leaders are Mark Tooley, president of the Institute on Religion and Democracy, and Keith Kullberg, coordinator of Evangelicals for Biblical Immigration.