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Border, Immigration and Sovereignty
60 posts, newest first (page 2 of 3).
Barbara Jordan's Commission Wanted Less Immigration and a Workplace CheckA Texas Democrat and civil-rights icon chaired a 1990s commission urging lower numbers, tighter family categories and worksite checks. Why was it shelved? The Case for Nuclear-Family Immigration Over Extended Family ChainsFamily unity is a conservative value, but sponsorship of adult siblings and married adult children builds decades-long queues no one chose on merit. What an American Points System Would Look Like Written Into LawA merit system is easier to praise than to draft. Here is how points for age, education, English and jobs would be scored, and what Congress must repeal. Should the H-1B Lottery Give Way to Picking the Highest-Paid Offers FirstThe H-1B visa is allocated by random draw, which favors volume filers over employers who value a worker most. A wage-ranked system is the better reform. The Conservative Split Over Mandatory E-Verify, Argued From Both SidesConservatives agree illegal hiring must stop but split on a national work-authorization mandate. Both cases get a hearing, then a verdict. What an ICE Detainer Actually Asks a Local Jail to Do and Why It MattersA detainer is a request to notify federal officers and hold a person briefly for transfer. The sanctuary fight is mostly a fight over whether to honor it. Temporary Protected Status and the Problem of Temporary That Never EndsTPS was meant as short shelter after war or disaster. Renewed for decades, it becomes quiet permanence that Congress should settle by statute. Humanitarian Parole Was Meant for Emergencies, Not Whole NationalitiesThe parole statute allows entry only case by case for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit. Group admissions belong to Congress. Should Immigration Courts Leave the Justice Department? Conservatives DisagreeImmigration judges work for the Justice Department. Conservatives split on whether an independent Article I court would fix the system or weaken accountability. How the Credible Fear Screen Works and Why Its Bar Was Set So LowThe credible fear interview decides who gets a full asylum hearing. Its low bar was built on purpose, and the gap it leaves is where reform belongs. The Refugee Act of 1980 Explained, and the Promise It Actually MadeThe 1980 law wrote the international refugee definition into American statute and set ceilings with Congress. It was built for persecution, not for poverty. Cesar Chavez Fought Illegal Hiring, a Part of His Story Rarely ToldThe farmworker leader the left honors opposed employers who used unlawful labor to break his strikes, a fact that complicates the story usually told. Twelve Questions From the Citizenship Civics Test and the Answers Behind ThemTwelve real questions from the naturalization civics test, each answered with its source in the Founding, and why a test that asks them is a good idea. Why a Green Card Lottery Makes No Sense for a Serious CountryThe Diversity Visa hands permanent residence to winners of a random draw. A serious country picks its newcomers on purpose, and the lottery picks nobody. A Nation of Immigrants Is Half the Sentence, and the Other Half MattersAmerica is a nation of immigrants, and also of citizens and laws. The slogan is true but incomplete, and it is used to end arguments rather than begin them. Ranchers on the Line and the Property Rights Fight at the Southern BorderBorder families bear the cost of a porous line, yet barriers can mean taking their land. Conservatives owe them an answer that honors security and property. How Sanctuary Became a Brand, From a 1979 Police Order to City HallFrom a 1979 Los Angeles police order and a Tucson church movement to San Francisco in 1989, how a narrow rule turned into a banner cities now advertise. The Employer Who Hires Off the Books Is Breaking the Law, Not HelpingIllegal hiring is the magnet behind illegal immigration. The 1986 sanctions, 8 U.S.C. 1324a, and why enforcement should start with the employer, not the worker. Thinking of Moving to Canada? Its Points System Might Not Pick YouCanada, Australia and Britain all select immigrants by skills and points, which ends the claim that selecting newcomers is un-American. A side-by-side look. Teddy Roosevelt's 1915 Warning Against Hyphenated Americanism, Read CloselyA passage-by-passage reading of Roosevelt's 1915 Columbus Day speech on divided loyalty and equal treatment, with what still holds and what the war dated. The Melting Pot Was a Good Idea and the Salad Bowl Is a Worse OneAssimilation made Americans of millions and gave their children full membership; the salad bowl keeps the pieces apart. The argument and the best objection. The Statue of Liberty Was a Gift About Liberty, and the Poem Came LaterThe sonnet on the pedestal is beautiful, but it was written to raise money, mounted in 1903, and never said what immigration law should be. My Great-Grandparents Came Without Papers, the Family Story Argument AnsweredThe family story that our ancestors just showed up misreads Ellis Island, which ran on inspection, exclusion grounds and a ship's manifest long before visas. If Sanctuary Rules Applied to Your Unpaid Taxes, a Satirical Thought ExperimentA labelled satire of a city that declares itself a sanctuary from the IRS, then a straight look at uniform law, the Supremacy Clause and the courts.
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