The border crisis significantly worsened during the month of September, the last month of Fiscal Year 2022. According to DHS, 227,547 illegal aliens were encountered at the border or America’s ports of entry.
America’s big business executives and corporate elites are lobbying both Republicans and Democrats in Congress to pass an amnesty for millions of illegal aliens working on U.S. farms.
The Department of Homeland Security has recently announced that the agency has designated the country of Ethiopia for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for a period of 18 months.
"I think this is the first time I've seen this [immigration] discussion couched in the idea of the strain on our resources...my responsibility is to make sure there's a tomorrow."
The amount of housing under construction is at an all-time high. But don't call your Millennial or Zoomer family and friends to congratulate them on their opportunity to start a new life quite yet. In spite of all the building being done, it seems that massive immigration flows (legal and illegal) will completely swamp the new supply.
While Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis have come under fire for bussing illegal aliens to New York City, Chicago, Washington D.C., and Martha's Vineyard, data show that it's actually the Biden Administration that's doing the bulk of the bussing. In just a single week in September, the Department of Homeland Security shipped 79 busloads and 29 planeloads of illegal aliens away from border regions to the interior of the United States.
Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Cali.) recently made the bold statement that the House GOP is opposed to trading a pathway to citizenship or other forms of amnesty, particularly for DACA recipients, for the promise of increased border Security, a typical trade-off that appeals by both parties.
According to a recent Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll survey, immigration, rising crime, and persistent inflation are still entrenched as midterm voters’ top concerns when it comes time to hit the ballot box November.
Two reviews of publications outside our borders help clarify the work we have to do inside our borders.
During the loose-labor period after the Civil War, European immigrants banded together in unions to stifle competition from Freedmen. But during the tight-labor market of the mid-20th century, unions played an important role in securing the success of the Great Wave and the Great Leveling. Federal immigration policy was an important factor during both periods and the bottom line is all laborers have more power in a tight labor market.
