Monthly Archives: March 2023

Congress remains pretty much unwilling/unable to do anything on immigration policy, with bills introduced that clearly have no chance of passage and wild talk about “invasion from Canada” and other nonsense that clearly has no basis in reality. In the … Continue reading →

Today’s immigration news continues to focus on the fire at a Mexican immigration detention center that killed at least 40 people on Monday. This was a needless and preventable tragedy exacerbated by our failed asylum policies and blatant disregard for … Continue reading →

At least 40 migrants were killed in a fire at a Mexican immigration detention center in Ciudad Juárez Monday night. All of the other imprisoned migrants were injured in the fire. Families of imprisoned migrants ask why the migrants remained … Continue reading →

If you have not yet submitted a comment on the Biden administration’s anti-asylum proposal, you still have a few hours to do so—until midnight, Eastern Daylight Time. Here’s the text of the comment that I submitted:  Please withdraw the proposed … Continue reading →

With Congress unable or unwilling to do anything about immigration reform, states and local jurisdictions are testing to see how far they can go—both for and against immigrants. Arizona, Massachusetts, California, Rhode Island, and Minnesota are among the states safeguarding … Continue reading →

The Biden administration is reviving, with slight cosmetic changes, the Trump-era regulation that would ban almost all asylum seekers. Two articles from today’s news highlight the desperation of children and adults seeking asylum. The new anti-asylum regulation is open for … Continue reading →

If you are reading this, you want to know about immigration. And if you want facts about immigration, the Migration Policy Institute has it covered. They have just published their annual statistical summary, which has “information about the approximately 45.3 million immigrants in the … Continue reading →

Restrictive U.S. asylum rules have impacts far beyond U.S. borders. Other countries in the Americas, already struggling with far higher rates of immigration than the United States, are following the U.S. lead in implementing more restrictive policies and denying asylum. 

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Start the weekend with a couple of good-news stories from Maine and Atlanta. Maine might just expand MaineCare to include immigrants, and Atlanta is home to some pretty impressive volunteer Grannies, who make life a little … Continue reading →

Migrant apprehensions at the southern border were at a two-year low in February. The Biden administration claims credit for the low numbers, citing its parole-and-sponsorship program for migrants from Haiti, Nicaragua, Cuba, and Venezuela, along with rapid expulsion of migrants … Continue reading →