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Summer Border Surge of Illegal Aliens Will Cost Local School Districts Millions

September is coming and so is the start of a new school year. This year, there will be almost 37,000 “unaccompanied” alien minors who will be enrolling in public school in the United States. These kids...

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More Observations on Immigration and the California Economy

The California Immigrant Policy Center (CIPC) released a report estimating that one in ten workers in California is an illegal alien. The CIPC seemingly believes that this is a positive for...

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Open Door in Germany? Not Quite

An article written by a German expatriate as a “special to The Washington Times ,” gives a grossly distorted picture of the immigration situation in Germany. At best, Angela Merkel’s stance on...

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Is Investing in U.S. Citizenship for Aliens Cost Effective?

According to the September 16 Wall Street Journal (“Mayors of New York, Los Angeles and Chicago Launch ‘Cities for Citizenship’”) the mayors of the cities with the largest concentrations of immigrants...

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A Message To The President Of Mexico: Americans Are Not Anti-Immigrant

On October 7, Fareed Zakaria hosted the Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto for a one-on-one talk (if we exclude the translator) on CNN. They spoke, among other things, about immigration. Mr. Enrique...

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Illegal immigrants send home $50 billion annually but cost taxpayers more...

Illegal immigrants residing in the U.S. send $50 billion in remittances to their home countries each year, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The World Bank estimates that number is even...

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The Surge in Central American Minors Was No Surprise

The Department of Homeland Security DHS has released data on the number of unaccompanied minors “encountered” (i.e. apprehended) by the Border Patrol in the 2014 fiscal year ending in September and...

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As if the Immigrant Population Was Not Rising Fast Enough

The focus on President Obama’s usurpation of Congressional authority to regulate immigration has centered on the unconstitutionality of the action, on the counter productivity of rewarding illegal...

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Traffic Report Mentions Population Growth, But Not Where It Will Come From

The U.S. Department of Transportation released this week a new report including traffic projections for 2045. The report notes: Over the past 30 years the American population has increased 35...

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Constraining Population Growth

The United States is involved in contributing to efforts to slow world population growth. But at home, the administration is actively advocating an immigration policy that would speed U.S. population...

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FAIR Opposes Today’s Vote on Funding DHS Without Defunding Executive Amnesty

The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) is advising all Members of Congress and staff that it opposes the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) appropriations bill that fails to defund...

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What Is to Be Done?

This week’s spectacle in Congress leads to some pretty obvious questions. If the Democrats can block any challenges to the president’s unprecedented immigration power grab, what can be done? If...

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The Wave of Future Prosperity?

The March 20 issue of The Economist focused on the rapidly growing Latino population for “Firing Up America.” The British publication provoked a series of commentaries in the U.S. media. But, the...

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How Many Visa Overstayers?

It seems that everybody agrees that there is no definitive answer to what share of the illegal alien population entered the country legally with visas but stayed illegally. FAIR describes the range of...

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California Discovers Natural Limits

Californians are under orders from the state government to reduce water use by one-fourth because of the continuing drought conditions. In reporting on the water crisis, The New York Times journalists...

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FAIR Will be At Earth Day Texas

Representatives of FAIR will be at Earth Day Texas this week to inform Texans about the impact that mass immigration has had, and will have on the environment there, and across the U.S. Mass...

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When You’re Right, You’re Right

A new Congressional Research Service report issued April 22, 2015 found that, as the immigrant population rapidly increased as a result of the 1965 immigration law, the earnings of the lowest 90...

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Legalize Aliens to Collect More Taxes?

The Sun Sentinel in Florida had a story on a new report by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy that found that tax revenues would increase if illegal aliens were granted amnesty. The study...

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More Executive “Discretion”: Yemenis Get to Stay

The law provides relief for certain foreigners who are in the United States when war or natural disaster in their homeland prevents their return. It is called Temporary Protected Status. TPS protects...

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Immigration Pushes Population Growth Faster

Admission of more than one million immigrants per year adds significantly to the rapid population growth of the United States. Because some immigrants leave voluntarily or are deported the net...

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