On November 26, President Joe Biden imposed a travel ban on eight nations in southern Africa – Botswana, Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, (the Republic of) South Africa, and Zimbabwe – in response to the newly emerging Omicron variant of COVID-19. The travel ban went into effect on November 29. Although the symptoms …

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The Department of Homeland Security is conducting a third lottery for H-1B visas this year after U.S.-based Indian managers allegedly sold multiple tickets to their countrymen. A lawsuit charges that companies have swamped the system with fraudulent visa applications, and that DHS has taken no steps to root them out. “There is literally no follow-up …

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Blaming “poverty, food insecurity, climate shocks and violence” for this year’s exodus from Central America, a new report by the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) left out a very important driver: President Joe Biden. In fiscal year 2021 (eight months on Biden’s watch), nearly 700,000 foreign nationals arrived from the Northern Triangle countries of Guatemala, Honduras …

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In George Orwell’s 1984, the Party’s three chief slogans were “war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength.” The British author was referring to the manner in which totalitarian regimes (be they communist or fascist) engage in semantic acrobatics and inverting the meaning of words to mean the exact opposite of how they had …

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In the wake of Europe’s 2015 migrant crisis, liberal leaders in Sweden have moved away from their Democratic Party comrades in the U.S. Ruling Social Democrats in Stockholm declared recently, “All major parties [in Sweden]today stand for a restrictive migration policy with a strong focus on law and order.”  At their peak, Sweden’s migration flows were …

Stockholm Wises Up on Immigration While Washington Plays Dumb Read More »

On Thursday, President Biden hosted a meeting with his regional counterparts, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada and President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of Mexico. No doubt, the three leaders had many important things to talk about: Soaring inflation, runaway energy costs, COVID, supply chain snarls, climate change, to name just a few. Oddly, the …

Biden Meets with Mexican President, but Border Crisis is “Not a Real Focus” of Discussions, Says the White House Read More »

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report finding that the immigration provisions in the Democrats’ Build Back Better (BBB) Act (H.R. 5376) would add $115.1 billion to the deficit of the United States over the next ten years. This goes well beyond the House Democrats’ $107.5 billion allocated for the BBB Act’s Judiciary …

CBO Says Build Back Better Act’s Immigration Provisions Will Raise the Deficit by $115.1 Billion Read More »

A group of congressional Democrats is complaining about Texas’ Operation Lone Star (OLS) border enforcement initiative, claiming that the state has established “a separate immigration policy.” The lawmakers’ beef ought to be with the Biden administration’s nonfeasance, and the anemic participation of local prosecutors. Calling for a federal investigation, the 26 congressional members allege that …

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President Joe Biden’s border crisis still rages on as Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 began last month. On November 15, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced authorities encountered 164,303 illegal aliens along the Southwest border in October. While the number of detained illegal aliens decreased from the encounters made in September, October has surpassed the 71,929 …

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Department of Homeland Security Secretary (DHS) Alejandro Mayorkas rated his performance in the Biden administration as an ‘A’ to the Senate Judiciary Committee today despite him overseeing and orchestrating the most significant border crisis in U.S. history. When asked by Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) how he would grade his performance as DHS secretary, Mayorkas responded, …

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