demographics

The Washington Post reported this week that the Biden administration is weighing whether to establish “European-style reception centers along the Mexican border that would transform the way asylum seekers are processed”. . . . Read more about Biden Considering UN-Approved ‘Reception Centers’ for Illegal Migrants

I reported this week that the migrant surge at the Southwest border that began in FY 2021 has continued largely unabated into October and November. An increasing number of migrants who are not from Mexico (OTMs) or nationals of the “Northern Triangle” countries of El Salvador, Guatemala, or Honduras (ONTs) is exacerbating that surge. They pose the biggest challenge to the one of the few public efforts that the Biden administration is undertaking to control the Southwest border. . . . Read more about 30% of FY22 Border Arrests Aren’t from Mexico or the Northern Triangle

An analysis of the Census Bureau’s monthly Current Population Survey (CPS) from November 2021 shows the total immigrant population (legal and illegal) in the U.S. hit 46.2 million, the highest number ever recorded in American history. Immigrants are also referred to by the government as the “foreign-born”. The overall immigrant population fell through the middle of 2020 and then rose dramatically after Biden’s victory. . . . Read more about Immigrant Population Hits Record 46.2 Million in November 2021

The U.S. has had a massive surge in immigration this year, with as many as 1.5 million newcomers and a record 46.2 million foreign-born people, according to a report for the Center for Immigration Studies.

After a deep trough last year, likely because of the COVID-19 pandemic and the travel and migration restrictions imposed to control the spread, the flow of people rebounded around the time President Biden was elected.

In numbers never seen before, they are coming legally through airports and land border crossings and illegally across the Rio Grande and remote regions of Arizona and California. . . . Read more about Foreign-born population soars to new record under Biden

Daily Caller’s field reporter Jorge Ventura recorded footage Tuesday of a large group of South American migrants illegally crossing the border into Yuma, Arizona, while Border Patrol agents were nowhere in sight. . . . Read more about EXCLUSIVE: Videos Show Migrants Crossing Into Arizona With No Border Patrol In Sight

Rep. Jim Banks, the head of the Republican Study Committee, is introducing a bill to reform the H-1B visa program to stop Big Tech’s use of the visa to undercut the wages of American tech workers. 

The “American Tech Workforce Act of 2021,” which currently has eleven cosponsors, would set a wage floor for H-1B visa holders at $110,000 or equal to that being paid to Americans presently working in that field and give priority for H-1B visas to employers who offer higher wages. . . . Read more about RSC Chair Jim Banks Introduces "American Tech Workforce Act" to Reform H-1B, End OPT

Only 33% of West Virginia's Democratic "likely voters" say they prefer the 10-year amnesty for up to 8 million illegal immigrants in the budget reconciliation bill that is headed to the Senate, according to new polling by Rasmussen Reports. . . . Read more about Poll: Manchin's West Virginia Democratic Voters Oppose Amnesty In Reconciliation Bill

Border Patrol agents in the Del Rio Sector found two small children along the Rio Grande.

Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents encountered two small children left abandoned by human smugglers along the riverbank of the Rio Grande on Sunday. Del Rio Sector officials tweeted a photo of the five-year-old boy and his seven-year-old sister. . . . Read more about Small Children Abandoned near Texas Border by Human Smugglers

Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents arrested Juan Ramon Barron-Casillas shortly after he illegally entered the United States from Mexico last week. After further investigation, agents discovered Barron’s criminal past included a conviction in Texas for second-degree murder and a conviction for tampering with human remains. . . . Read more about Deported Murderer Arrested After Crossing Border into Arizona

For as long as most of us have been alive, there have been declarations that America’s best days are behind us and that we are in a slow, steady decline. Against this backdrop, there is a growing sentiment that our present leadership in Washington is something altogether different, and worse. . . . Read more about Commentary: America at the Intersection of Woke and Incompetent