Immigration Blog

Screening for Illegals

By Mark Krikorian, May 19, 2009

I agree with Heather Mac Donald that the administration's decision to expand immigration checks to all jails is a positive development that needs watching. But I have two concerns that Heather didn't touch on. Read more...

Five Million waiting on Family Visas

By Jessica Vaughan, May 19, 2009

For the first time in over a decade, the State Department has released basic information on the number of people on the waiting list for family-based immigrants, reporting that more than 2.7 million people are awaiting interviews overseas for their immigrant visa. In addition, there are another 2.2 million people are waiting in the United States for USCIS to process their family visa application. Read more...

Pandering by the ADL

By Stephen Steinlight, May 15, 2009

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is making news again, or, to put it less dramatically, it's garnered a few headlines in Jewish weeklies, some coverage in papers in south Florida, a piece in JTA, angry disbelief on anti-Islamist websites (see, for instance, here and here), and from Jewish bloggers, and an accolade in the on-line publication of the leading Muslim/Islamist Read more...

Secure Fences Work at White House

By Jon Feere, May 15, 2009

Open-border advocates often claim that fences don't work. Why, then, does the White House have a secure, dual perimeter fence (both metal and "virtual") and limited points of entry—with officials doing quick background checks at each? Read more...

'Secure'?: Another New Definition

By Janice Kephart, May 14, 2009

On Wednesday, the House Homeland Security Committee conducted a hearing on the 2010 budget priorities of the Department of Homeland Security. The budget was submitted to Congress on May 7, 2009 as part of the President's $3.5 trillion Fiscal Year 2010 Budget Proposal. The ranking Republican on the subcommittee with jurisdiction over U.S. borders and counterterrorism, Rep. Mark Souder (R-IN), yesterday during the hearing specifically asked DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano whether she still supported repeal of the REAL ID Act. Read more...

Sauce for the Goose

By Mark Krikorian, May 13, 2009

"India Sends the Foreign Pilots Back Home" — but at the same time their government has temerity to insist that we keep taking more of their entry-level computer programmers? I'm not even arguing the merits of the case (for more on that, see here and here) — but the hypocrisy is interesting. Read more...

On E.J. Dionne's "Buying Time on Immigration"

By Stephen Steinlight, May 12, 2009

Before giving E.J. Dionne two cheers for the quotient of candor in his Washington Post column "Buying Time on Immigration," plus three cheers for calling for greater decency in the immigration debate, and a well deserved rap on the knuckles for playing fast and loose with data, it is worth noting a broad rhetorical shift in the media reflected in his column. This change has been introduced into writing and speaking about immigration policy so quietly and ubiquitously it's easy to miss. Read more...

The Change They Seek

By John Wahala, May 8, 2009

In what has become an annual exercise, activists came together on May 1, International Workers’ Day 2009 to demand a pardon for all those residing illegally in the country. And although last week’s rallies lacked the magnitude and intensity of recent years—when a sweeping legislative amnesty appeared imminent—they were replete with the same conspicuous contempt for the American mainstream that illegal aliens ostensibly seek to join. Read more...

Farm Labor & Food Cost Video

By Philip Martin, May 8, 2009

The video below explains the relationship between farm worker wages and food costs. If you are interested in a more detailed explanation, please visit "Food Costs and Labor Costs: 2007" at the Migration Dialogue website. Read more...

Presentation: State & Local Enforcement

By Jessica Vaughan, May 8, 2009

Download "Immigration Policy and State & Local Law Enforcement" PowerPoint Presentation.

New Presentation: Immigration Policy and State & Local Law Enforcement, given by Jessica Vaughan at Northwestern University's Center for Public Safety. Read more...