Agriculture companies in California are being forced to develop and deploy labor-saving machinery and techniques because reduced illegal immigration is allowing American farmworkers raise their poverty-level wages, according to Los Angeles Times.
The U.S. State Department under President Trump has introduced stricter vetting procedures for all visa seekers.
The U.S. State Department rejected four of every five requests from Cuban nationals for a tourism or business visa in the 2016 fiscal year, a year in which incidents of violent communist oppression skyrocketed following President Barack Obama’s friendly visit to dictator Raúl Castro in March.
Officials at the Department of State are tightening oversight of visa approvals in many foreign countries, including many Islamic countries, even as pro-immigration groups and allied judges try to block the president’s new immigration policies.
During a discussion of President Trump’s travel ban during an interview broadcast on Wednesday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel, Senate Minority Leader Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) stated, “every country ought to be vetted. I think they did a
Venezuelans fleeing their country’s crashing, socialist economy are leading in requests to come to the U.S. as asylum seekers, according to new data.
“A review of information compiled by a Senate committee in 2016 reveals that 72 individuals from the seven countries covered in President Trump’s vetting executive order have been convicted in terror cases since the 9/11 attacks,” according to a report issued by the Center for Immigration Studies on Saturday.
Chinese nationals are increasingly using fake visas to enter Canada from Shanghai and the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, reports the Globe and Mail, citing a “confidential” alert issued by Canada’s border security agency.
President Barack Obama’s border and immigration secretary praised Texas Rep. Michael McCaul, spiking alarm among pro-American immigration reformers who fear that President-elect Donald Trump will pick McCaul to run the critical Department of Homeland Security.
Federal agencies are still refusing to close one the major gaps in the nation’s anti-jihadi defenses, 15 years after 19 Islamic infiltrators murdered 3,000 Americans on 9/11.
Brits may need to apply for visas and pay in advance before travel to the European Union (EU) under plans being drawn up by the unelected European Commission.
Despite evidence Saudi Arabian terrorists exploit the U.S. visa program, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton doubled the number of visas for Saudi visitors to the U.S., while helping cut a deal with the Kingdom to waive security procedures for Saudi nationals upon their arrival in the U.S, CounterJihad has learned.
Fresh off a crackdown on independent journalism in China, Beijing is lashing out at India for refusing to renew the visas of three journalists from China’s state-run news agency, Xinhua.
While tens of thousands of deportable aliens have been released into the United States because the aliens’ home countries declined to take them back, the Obama Administration has not withheld visas from a single country for refusing to repatriate its citizens, government officials testified Thursday before a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
On December 1 of this year, the Canadian government will lift the visa requirement for Mexican visitors. Immigration experts are concerned that “Canada will now become even more of a launching point for illegal entry into the United States.”
Visas, when placed in the hands of terrorists, can become weapons, and Congress must seal the vulnerabilities in the current system, Rep. Randy Forbes (R-VA) argues.
Fox News Channel host Greg Gutfeld argued that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s change in position on visas is “a record flip-flop” that met “the definition of establishment” on Friday’s broadcast of “The Five.” Gutfeld began, “For so long, most
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump stated that he was “changing” and “softening” the visa position in his immigration platform because “We need highly skilled people in this country” including “in Silicon Valley” during Thursday’s GOP presidential debate on the Fox News
A Somali man charged into a Columbus, Ohio, restaurant on Thursday evening and immediately began attacking innocent patrons with a machete, according to reports.
The immigrant population in the U.S. is expected to grow by more than 700 percent over 1970 levels, according to an analysis of Census data from Senate Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest Republican staff.
The New York Times reports that the United States government currently has no idea how many foreign visitors have overstayed their visas — a long standing problem with America’s immigration system.
In a Tuesday morning interview with radio host Bill Bennett, Paul Ryan defended his omnibus bill’s controversial expansion in the H-2B visa program, which would allow foreign workers to fill blue-collar American jobs, by arguing that if the provision were not included, American companies would be forced to shut their doors.
If politics is the fine art of getting people to approach important issues emotionally, instead of rationally, then immigration is the masterpiece example of that art.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is planning to increase scrutiny of social-media posts by visa applicants before certain individuals are permitted to enter the United States, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has learned from a person familiar with the plan.
The San Bernardino terrorist who came to the U.S. on a fiancé visa cleared all applicable security checks required for admission to the U.S., a State Department official detailed Wednesday before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
Government-approved immigrant jihadis have attacked and killed another 14 Americans, but GOP politicians are ignoring the obvious fix demanded by the American public—reduce Islamic migration into the United States.
House Speaker Paul Ryan and other Republican leaders in Congress are putting the final touches on a massive omnibus spending bill that will fund the federal government until after the presidential election.
Readers of Sunday’s edition of the Los Angeles Times were presented with a front-page story depicting a sympathetic portrait of President Obama’s Syrian refugee resettlement project.
Pundits expected the terrorist attacks in Paris to shove the GOP’s primary race towards national-security debates and to boost the experienced pols, including Sen. Marco Rubio.
Four centuries after white Christians landed in Jamestown and settled what would later become America, a report reveals that white Christians are now a minority in the nation their forbearers settled.
Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton said Monday that the United States already vets refugees entering the country, and she has no specific plan to make the vetting process more stringent.
In a surprising twist in the 2016 election, presidential aspirant Sen. Marco Rubio has proposed a new plan for helping President Obama resettle Syrian refugees in the United States.
GOP presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) announced his plan to introduce legislation that would halt the United States from taking in more refugees from Syria, but during his announcement detailing his legislation, he stressed how his competitor GOP presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) opposed heighted scrutiny on foreign visas in the past.
Sen. Marco Rubio is rising in the 2016 GOP presidential polls, as is Sen. Ted Cruz.
Sen. Jeff Sessions slammed the “internationalist,” “corporate gurus” who run much of the U.S. media, saying that they have largely banished meaningful discussion about issues critical to Republican voters.
BOULDER, Colorado—GOP presidential candidate and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum went after fellow GOP presidential candidate Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on the issue of increasing legal immigration, arguing that Graham’s position hurts the American worker.
Immigration Subcommittee Chairman Jeff Sessions and Congressman Dave Brat issued a challenge to Republican presidential hopefuls in a joint op-ed titled, “Curb immigration or quit.”
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s campaign is furious with 2016 GOP frontrunner Donald Trump over Trump’s comments that the 9/11 terrorist attacks happened on Bush’s brother former President George W. Bush’s watch. But a review of the basic facts of the situation—and Jeb Bush’s own writings— reveals that even the Bushes admit that “leaky” immigration enforcement was a major driving factor in leading to the terrorist attacks.
On Tuesday, CNN media reporter Dylan Byers said Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s choice to skip not one, but two critical Senate votes funding Planned Parenthood is a “sticking point” with conservatives fed up with pretty talk but no action, crediting Breitbart News for highlighting his poor attendance record.
While Breitbart News has been reporting for months that John Boehner’s speakership was in jeopardy, the Washington media was stunned on Friday with the historic announcement of Boehner’s resignation.
