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Administration Moves to Increase Efficiency and Protect the Integrity of Asylum System

Matt O'Brien — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 21:19:11 +0000

The Center for Immigration Studies has reported that, in the final months of 2019, there were 340,810 asylum applications pending with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). USCIS handles asylum applications filed by people who are not currently in deportation proceedings. At the same time, more than 476,000 asylum cases were pending before the Executive [...]

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Antifa Builds Border Wall and Recruits Armed Border Patrol

Matt O'Brien — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 18:46:41 +0000

Antifa and many of the other groups now calling on political leaders to “defund the police” were also at the forefront of the “Abolish ICE” movement – insisting that the federal government abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). In June of 2018, a Nebraska affiliate of the group doxxed roughly 1,600 ICE employees, making [...]

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Big Media’s Fake News Narrative About Corporate America and ICE

Matt O'Brien — Wed, 27 May 2020 17:10:01 +0000

Since the beginning of the Trump administration, the mainstream media have regularly carried stories touting woke workers whining about their companies’ business relationships with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). In 2018 the consulting firm McKinsey and Company canceled a contract with ICE, due to employee concerns. In [...]

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SCOTUS: 9th Circuit Can’t Twist Law to De-Criminalize Aiding and Abetting Illegals

Matt O'Brien — Fri, 15 May 2020 16:17:35 +0000

The Supreme Court recently handed down a decision in United States v. Sineneng-Smith, reversing a Ninth Circuit decision that purported to invalidate the federal statute that makes it a crime to encourage illegal immigration. Court commentators were quick to characterize the decision as a reversal “on a technicality” rather than “on the merits.” They also [...]

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In Forbes’ Case, OPT Should Stand for “Optional Preference for Truth”

Matt O'Brien — Tue, 05 May 2020 16:39:22 +0000

It’s no secret that the mainstream media has abandoned all pretense of objectivity in its coverage of immigration matters. Nevertheless, the lengths to which open-borders-leaning publications will go to distort the truth are still shocking. Forbes recently published an opinion piece titled, “Next Trump Immigration Target: OPT For International Students.” OPT stands for Optional Practical [...]

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The COVID-19 Immigration Moratorium: Reasonable Not Racist

Matt O'Brien — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 19:42:46 +0000

The Washington Post has published an article attacking President Trump’s recently announced a temporary COVID-19 immigration halt as “racist,“ “nativist” and “xenophobic.” According to the post, “immigration is not a vector for the spread of the coronavirus, which is already circulating within the country.” Therefore, the “immigration suspension has nothing to do with coronavirus.” If [...]

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