Americans are living more densely, on average, but we've paved over more than eleven-and-a-half million acres over the past two decades. Most of the loss is a result of the U.S. population growing by nearly 40 million people – a result of Congressional immigration policy.
This week, the Biden Admin. defended the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in a Federal Court of Appeals suit levied nine states lead by Texas.
The Department of Homeland Security, via. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, has changed its protocol when dealing with aliens that apply for a new legal status after being caught in the United States illegally.
The Biden Administration's latest budget request includes a reduction in detention beds and in its place they primarily rely on Alternatives to Detention (ATD) where aliens are released and supposedly monitored with technology like ankle bracelets or even smartphone apps. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a new report detailing that the lax enforcement across the immigration policy sphere extends to internal oversight of their own programs. The report details that while ATD use has more than doubled in the past few years, oversight of the released aliens and the contractors running the program has seen no such expansion.
The Supreme Court's decision this week on the Remain in Mexico program does not have to be the final word on Pres. Biden's dismantling of most border enforcement.
The death toll of the migrant filled tractor-trailer abandoned in the San Antonio heat continued to grow this week. With 53 migrants dead, this incident had become the deadliest human smuggling incident in U.S. history.
The United States Supreme Court ruled that the Biden admin. can end the Trump-era Migrant Protection Protocols, also known as Remain in Mexico - that required asylum-seekers to wait for their immigration court hearings in Mexico.
Monday, a State Supreme Court Justice for New York ruled that a state bill allowing noncitizens to vote in local elections violated the New York State Constitution.