Tag: illegal immigration

The Parallel Between UK and US Immigration Policies

Commentary Two shocking immigration-related stories highlight open border fiascos in the United States and the United Kingdom. Back in August, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) issued a statement that included this sentence (emphasis added): “July numbers bring the total of illegal aliens crossing our borders since President Biden took office to 4.9 million,…


Supreme Court Justices Question Biden Administration’s Border Policy

News Analysis The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in a lawsuit filed by Texas and Louisiana over Biden administration guidelines that severely restricted the Department of Homeland Security’s enforcement of federal immigration law against illegal aliens. Twenty other states supported Texas and Louisiana with amicus briefs, ranging from Arizona to Florida and West Virginia to Wyoming. The Biden administration was appealing…


‘We Lost Our Purpose’: Border Patrol Sees Surge in Suicides as Morale Plummets

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has seen four personnel die by suicide in the last two weeks, National Border Patrol Council Vice President-at-Large Sergio Moreno, who is part of the agency’s National Suicide Prevention Workforce, revealed to the Daily Caller News Foundation. Three Border Patrol agents died by suicide in the two week period,…


DNC Continues to Cite 2005 Number on Illegal Immigration, Studies Indicate Real Figure Likely 3 Times Higher

Commentary Last week, Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) claimed at a press conference last week that the country needs new immigrants to combat declining reproduction rates and a low population growth rate.  Schumer said his “ultimate goal” was to help not only the so-called “dreamers,” but to “get a path to citizenship for all 11…


Schumer, Then and Now

Commentary If an awards show were created to honor Washington politicians for the most outlandish, hypocritical, and contradictory positions, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) would be among the top contenders. In a 2009 speech at Georgetown Law School, Sen. Schumer said the following: “… illegal immigration is wrong. We must create a system that converts the flow of…


Meloni Calls out Illegal Immigration Hypocrisy

Commentary As we know, the reaction of many Western leaders to new Italian (and first female) Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s victory in the recent national elections varied from the downright deranged to the cold and aloof. The Prime Minister of France, Elisabeth Borne, promised to keep a close eye on Meloni to ensure she respected…


Border Crisis Likely to Worsen After Federal Judge Orders End to Title 42 Expulsion of Illegal Aliens

Commentary The historic level of illegal immigration on the southern border is likely to get much worse, if that’s possible. On Wednesday, Nov. 16, a federal judge declared that the Biden administration had to end Title 42 by Dec. 21. The ruling came from Judge Emmet Sullivan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, who was…


Illegal Immigrant Staying at Manston Processing Centre Dies in Hospital: UK Home Office

An illegal immigrant died in hospital after falling ill at the Manston processing centre in Kent, the UK Home Office has said. The Home Office said the man died in hospital on Nov. 19 after “becoming unwell” in the temporary holding facility for illegal immigrants. According to British media reports, the man arrived in the…


Chris Magnus’ Opus: A Record-Setting Disaster for the Head of Border Protection

Commentary Chris Magnus was forced to resign as head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Nov. 12. He was unprepared for the job, never had the support of the workforce, and cared more about internal “social justice” than executing CBP’s mission. Not surprisingly, he utterly failed to secure the U.S. border in his tenure of almost a year….


‘Hotel Britain’ Must End to Deter ‘Asylum Shopping,’ UK Immigration Minister Says

The UK should house illegal immigrants in “simple, functional” spaces as opposed to luxury hotels in a bid to disincentivise “asylum shopping,” Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick has said. Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, Jenrick said the UK “has an obligation to provide sanctuary to some of the many who flee war and persecution,” but the…