Immigration Blog

The circuit court held that the lower court had erred in holding that state and local officers could only arrest aliens where there was a probable cause of criminality, writing that such a claim is "patently at odds with immigration law and procedure; civil removal proceedings necessarily contemplate detention absent proof of criminality."

Some immigration policy problems are larger than others; think of 11 million illegal immigrants and a million or so H-1Bs, all depressing the labor market and displacing American workers. Then there are the aliens with tourist cards attending public schools; these are often from China.

Since its inception, E-Verify has been one of the most successful tools available to address illegal employment, which is widely acknowledged as the primary motivation for illegal immigration. The Center's new Data Portal for government statistics includes noteworthy current data showing continued growth in E-Verify usage.

This is a story of double standards and judicial indifference — if not outright acquiescence — toward a man, an alien, who physically abuses women and gets away with it simply because he is represented by individuals and an industry who believe his skills are so desirable that they outweigh the gravity of his violence against women.

A reporter with the Minneapolis Star Tribune recently asked the Center for comments on the impending possibility — perhaps even likelihood — that Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) for Liberians would be ended by the Trump administration, which would be in line with what the administration has been doing with various other, similar programs.

Just when you think the far left can't get any more unhinged from the rest of American society, various media outlets are reporting that there is a growing movement among progressive activists pressuring Democrats to publicly call for the abolishment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the arm of the federal government that conducts immigration enforcement in the interior of the United States.

One of the glories of the EB-5 (immigrant investor) program is its seeming ability to bring out the worst in some people.

There needs to be a mechanism so that when an immigration lawyer is debarred by USCIS, EOIR, or SEC, he/she is debarred by all.

While the State Department plays a key role in the immigration process (both because of visa screening overseas and its role with refugees), the secretary spends only a tiny fraction of his or her time dealing with migration issues.

Nevertheless, the background and the policy attitudes of that official can play a major role in setting the atmosphere in which junior diplomats make individual visa decisions.

Maybe the Department of State needs to engage in a serious bilateral discussion with Mexico over the appropriate limits of conduct and activities undertaken by its diplomatic missions. If that doesn't work, then perhaps our own diplomats should rethink the desirability of reciprocity, and begin the process of ordering a shutdown of Mexican consular missions that are above and beyond the number of U.S. facilities that now exist in Mexico.