A new migrant caravan of about 1000 people is reportedly traveling through Mexico en route to the southern United States border. The group, which left on October 13, is headed from Tapachula, Chiapas, on Mexico’s southern border, to Mexico City. Following their arrival, the group is anticipated to disperse and seek various routes to reach […]
Vice President Kamala Harris will visit the Arizona-Mexico border Friday, a first in more than 1,300 days since President Joe Biden took office and the southern border descended into a yearslong crisis that Republicans have argued was her responsibility to clean up. Harris finds herself in a difficult position trying to save face in a […]
Germany on Monday began random checks at its borders with five Western European nations as it seeks to crack down on irregular migration, expanding a system of mobile border controls that are already in place at four other borders. The checks began at the borders with France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and Denmark before dawn […]
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced a significant rollback of Canada’s migrant worker program. This decision has been spurred by rising domestic backlash and intense pressure from the United States to curb the flow of migrant workers crossing the border. This initiative represents a notable shift within Trudeau’s previous administration, which often portrayed Canada as […]
While authorities, security experts, and conservative border hawks have long warned that the ongoing security situation at the southern border could permit entry by hostile actors, the recent arrest of multiple suspects linked to the Islamic State has reignited fears of potential terrorist activity. Authorities this week arrested a group of suspects with suspected links […]
President Joe Biden tried to address a major liability for his reelection campaign by taking executive action to significantly restrict asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border. But it’s unclear whether his efforts will be enough to change the minds of voters who have increasingly voiced alarm over the record influx of migrants on his watch. Polls […]
In a turnabout that underscores how dramatically the politics of immigration have changed, President Biden is expected today to use an executive order to restrict and in some cases halt migration at the U.S. southern border. Drafts have been circulating for months in the West Wing political shop. Now the president is five months from […]
President Joe Biden is reportedly planning to unveil a sweeping new executive order aimed at curbing migrant arrivals at the US-Mexico border.The executive action is likely to allow US officials to shut off asylum requests once a daily threshold is met, allowing border officials to limit the amount of migrant arrivals, according to media.More than […]
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) data is revealing the more than 45 cities in the U.S. that hundreds of thousands of migrants have flown into via a controversial parole program for four nationalities — with the vast majority entering the U.S. via airports in Florida. During an eight-month period from January through August 2023, roughly […]
The economy has always been the top issue at the ballot box for 65-year-old Garfield Cousins. But this year Cousins, an independent voter in an Atlanta suburb, said the sustained surge of migrants at the southern border will for the first time drive his decision in a presidential election. While illegal border crossings have repeatedly […]
Inflation and immigration are the top concerns among voters ahead of November’s general election, according to a new Harvard CAPS-Harris poll released on Monday. Thirty-six percent of voters said that immigration was the most important issue facing the country today, while 33 percent said the same about inflation and price increases. Thirty-eight percent of voters […]
The U.S. has just experienced its largest one-year demographic increase in the country’s history, growing by over 3.8 million in 2023, according to a recent report by John Burns Research and Consulting (JBREC). Eric Finnigan, vice president of Building Products Research and Demographics at JBREC, wrote about the report on X, formerly known as Twitter, […]
