Tag: immigration

Democrats’ COMPETES Bill Would Import Thousands of New Refugees, Economic Immigrants

In a Jan. 25 press release, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) unveiled the broad outlines of the America COMPETES Act, a bill designed to increase American competitiveness in STEM fields, manufacturing, and rare earth metal extraction; however, the bill would also allow for the importation of thousands of new refugees and other immigrants…


Probe Urged After Video Reveals Chinese Spy Boasted About Securing Changes to UK Legislation

The British government has been urged to investigate claims made by Chinese communist agent Christine Lee that she successfully secured changes to UK immigration legislation in 2006 by exerting influence in the House of Lords, the second chamber of the UK Parliament. The UK’s MI5 security agency took the unusual step of sending an alert…


José Mayoral’s Escape from Socialism

José Angel Mayoral III is a man who lost his country. Born and raised in Venezuela, he grew up in a family of entrepreneurial business owners in Caracas. His Puerto Rican grandfather went to Venezuela as a salesman for Goodyear Rubber and Tire and decided to stay. His grandfather and father worked hard and created…


Study: Illegal Aliens Getting Free Lawyers Paid by Local Governments

All across the country, city and county governments are creating programs that provide legal representation free-of-charge to illegal aliens contesting deportation orders at taxpayer expense, according to a new report by the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI). “These programs are an insult to every law-abiding American citizen and legal resident,” Dale L. Wilcox, executive director…


US Chamber of Commerce Urges Doubling Immigration to Ease Labor Crunch, Cool Inflation

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has called for amnesty for some illegal aliens and for twice as many legal immigrants to be let into the United States as a way to ease the labor crunch and help curb surging inflation. Chamber of Commerce CEO Suzanne Clark said in a Jan. 11 keynote address on the…


Liverpool Bomber Was Practicing Muslim Despite Reported Conversion to Christianity: UK Coroner

The terrorist attacker who died in the Remembrance Sunday bomb blast in Liverpool had remained a “follower of Islam” despite his reported conversion to Christianity, a British coroner said on Thursday. Emad Al Swealmeen, 32, died in the blast in a taxi outside Liverpool Women’s Hospital shortly before 11 a.m. on Nov. 14. The taxi…


UK to Relax Immigration Rules for Care Workers Amid Staff Shortages

The UK government announced on Friday that it will relax immigration rules on care workers to tackle acute staff shortages in the social care sector. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said it will make temporary changes to the health and care visa to make social care workers, care assistants, and home care…


Hungary to Defy EU Court Ruling Over Migration Policy, Orban Says

Hungary will not change its immigration laws despite a European court ruling, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Tuesday. Orban said illegal immigration and LGBTQ rights, two issues that have caused conflict with the European Union, would dominate the agenda as his Fidesz party prepares for its first contested election after three landslides since 2010….


Building the Wall Back Better

Commentary During a debate with George H.W. Bush in New Hampshire in 1980, the moderator asked that Ronald Reagan’s microphone be “turned off for the moment.” Reagan was angry and said something that might be applied to the failure of the Biden administration to use materials lying unused in Texas paid for during the Trump…


Parliamentarian Rejects Democrats’ Third Immigration Plan in Budget

Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough has struck another blow to Democrats’ ambitions to provide millions of illegal aliens amnesty in the Build Back Better budget bill. Because Democrats are using the complicated and rule-laden reconciliation process, the scope of the legislation is far more constrained than a normal piece of legislation. The reconciliation process, first formulated…