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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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Mass Incarceration Remains a Myth, Mass Migration Is Still a Problem

Matt O'Brien — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 18:41:51 +0000

The Intercept has published an article titled, “Immigration Detention Is Part of Mass Incarceration: The Case for Abolishing Ice and Everything Else.” It is, in essence a promotion piece for two unabashedly anti-Trump screeds: Migrating to Prison: America’s Obsession With Locking Up Immigrants, written by law professor César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández and All-American Nativism: How [...]

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The Mainstream Media Turns the Truth Upside Down

Matt O'Brien — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 17:49:57 +0000

The Wall Street Journalrecently ran a piece titled, “Attorney General Blocks Asylum Applications Based on Family Ties.” The article discusses Attorney General (AG) William Barr’s reversal of a Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) decision which held that a Mexican national could seek asylum because his father was allegedly being targeted by Mexican organized crime. The [...]

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Kamala Harris And Her Twisted Logic on Deportations

Jared Bauman — Fri, 21 Jun 2019 16:23:51 +0000

Immediately after President Donald Trump announced that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will soon start deporting illegal aliens who have final deportation orders, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris published a series of tweets expressing her extreme opposition to the idea of deportations. According to the California senator, deportations “violate our values,” are a “shameful [...]

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A Humanitarian Test for a Do-Nothing Congress

Bob Dane — Thu, 07 Feb 2019 17:10:00 +0000

Assuming lawmakers are interested in looking for one, Congress has a bipartisan immigration fix right under its noses. It’s what the Obama administration tried, but failed, to do. As more Central American caravans arrive with children at the U.S. border, Congress must address the “pull factors” that entice migrants to expose themselves, and especially minors, [...]

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The Amnesty Lobby, aka the Democratic Party, Drops any Pretense of Supporting Immigration Enforcement

Ira Mehlman — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 13:17:38 +0000

It's time for the Democratic party leadership to put self-righteousness aside and put immigration enforcement on back their radar.

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