Texas Gov. Greg Abbott hosted a border security conference last week in Del Rio, Texas, where he announced plans to implement a strict border security agenda for decreasing illegal border crossings. Abbott plans to build a border wall along the…
During the Trump presidency, Democratic activist groups routinely assailed the administration’s immigration policies as “lawless.” What really bothered these groups, however, was the Trump administration’s commitment to enforcing immigration law, which violated the non-enforcement ideology now in vogue among liberal…
As illegal crossings at the southern border reach record-shattering levels, the Biden–Harris administration has struggled to reconcile its management of the surge with its attempt to break from Trump-era policy. Vice President Kamala Harris’s weekend visit to Guatemala highlighted this…
The majority of new arrivals at the U.S. southern border have historically been from our close neighbors, Mexico and Central America. In April 2019, only 7.5 percent of migrants encountered at the border came from countries other than Mexico, Guatemala,…
No disrespect to its border-state sponsors, Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Arizona) and House members Henry Cuellar and Tony Gonzales (both Texans, Democrat and Republican respectively), but there are better names for the “Bipartisan Border Solutions Act.” The…
With the exception of those who may have glanced at the February edition of Vogue magazine or recently browsed the New York Times style section, we have not seen or heard much from Kamala Harris since she was sworn in…
Less than a month before last year’s presidential election, I wrote in an American Spectator article about a “Collapsing Building Rule”: Moments before a building pancakes due to internal structural failure, it looks to the observer as solid as the day…
Drop dead. That’s the Biden administration’s message to victims of criminal illegal immigrants in joint stipulations submitted to the Supreme Court this month. The stipulations dismiss petitions filed last year asking the court to review two sanctuary city cases. More on…
Joe Biden has long denied that illegal immigration constitutes a crisis for the country. The flood of illegal immigrants, he once said, is not a “burden” but a “gift.” So it is no surprise that he and his aides are quibbling…
