Immigration

Geert Wilders (AP Images) In the world’s second shock election result in a week, longtime right-wing nationalist and Euroskeptic Geert Wilders unexpectedly scored a huge win in national elections in the Netherlands. Wilders, who has long drawn comparisons to Donald Trump, seemed as surprised as anyone at his massive victory in the Dutch vote yesterday, a result that gave his...

AP Images Javier Milei In honor of Javier Milei’s election as president of Argentina, we delve into the captivating history of free-market economics in Argentina, tracing back to the pioneering figures such as Juan Bautista Alberdi and highlighting the contributions of modern-day proponents such as Alberto Benegas Lynch, Jr. and, of course, the victorious advocate of those men and those...

U.S. Border Patrol/Picryl The number of illegal aliens, or “unauthorized immigrants,” living in the United States, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center, reached 10.5 million in 2021. The estimate was a “modest increase over 2019 but nearly identical to 2017.”   “The number of unauthorized immigrants living in the U.S. in 2021 remained below its peak of...

Mohamed Magid is the Imam and the spiritual leader at the All Dulles Area Muslim Society in Sterling, Virginia. He is also an operative of the Muslim Brotherhood.   All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS) is one of the largest mosques in America, located in Sterling, Virginia, and serves 5,000 Muslim families. ADAMS offers a wide variety of services. Some are of...

Vertigo3d/iStock/Getty Images Plus What would you say about a man who left his home’s back door open all night while going off to be a community watchman in other neighborhoods, but then nonetheless claimed he was being vigilant about his family’s safety? Perhaps it’s the same thing you’d say about National Security Council spokesman John Kirby. After all, despite his...

Lukassek/iStock/Getty Images Plus Buncrana, Ireland Immigrationist authorities shipped the migrants in during the dead of night. My, observers may wonder, they couldn’t be trying to hide something, could they? The place is a small Irish town named Buncrana, which had already received migrants, such as Syrians in 2019, without notice. In Buncrana, which is in County Donegal, almost 30 percent...

John Whitehead There is something terribly wrong with this country, isn’t there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who’s to blame?— V for Vendetta...

ElFlacodelNorte/iStock/Getty Images Plus Even Democrats are reluctantly finding themselves forced to acknowledge the realities of mass migration, prompting the White House to cede some ground. As CBS News reports, the Biden administration is now dropping its plan to require illegal migrants to “Remain in Texas” after crossing the border — a proposed move that was intended to alleviate the massive...

Douglas Rissing/iStock/Getty Images Plus Democrats, 86 percent of whom have consistently supported the resident of the Oval Office, bailed last month. According to Gallup, their rating of his job performance dropped an astonishing 11 percent last month, to 75 percent — the lowest since he was inaugurated in January 2021. Noted Gallup: President Joe Biden’s job approval rating among Democrats...

rawpixel/public domain El Paso, Texas U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reported a record number of 269,735 illegal aliens entering along the southwest border in September, highlighting the Biden administration’s failure to secure the nation’s borders and keep Americans safe.   Troy A. Miller, senior official performing the duties of the commissioner of the CBP, acknowledged the “high rates of...

AP Images Polygamy? Blessing homosexual unions? “Radical inclusion” of LGBT people? Holy Communion for those living in adulterous relationships? Ordination of women? Is the Roman Catholic Church really about to flip on these and related issues? Are Pope Francis and his “Synod on Synodality” bent (many faithful Catholics say “hell bent”) on thoroughly overturning two millennia of the Catholic Church’s teaching...

AP Images Vivek Ramaswamy It’s bad enough when Americans hear, and have good reason to believe, “Laws are only for the little people.” But there’s perhaps an even more bitter pill: Having good reason to believe laws are also only for citizens. This very much appears the case, too, when hearing endless excuses for why the pseudo-elites won’t deport illegal...

Congress is crippled at the moment. It is understandable the Democrats also voted to remove Kevin McCarthy. It is extremely hard to analyze last week’s spectacle on Capitol Hill soberly. A group of just eight extreme right-leaning House Republicans managed to paralyze legislative business in the most powerful country in the world. With the removal of McCarthy as speaker of...

I stole the title for this piece from The Economist, since it sums up, in a simple and short phrase, a situation that drags on and is difficult to explain. The chaos in Washington is the chaos in the American political system, a situation that has been brewing for a long while and has now reached the point of complete...

Politics RFK Jr. Goes It Alone  For all his virtues, personal and political, the freshly launched independent candidate faces an almost prohibitively steep road. Credit: Jessica Kourkounis/Getty Images On Monday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced he was running as an independent candidate for president before Independence Hall in Philadelphia. The weather was sublime, clear, a first touch of fall in...

AP Images Joe Biden and Alejandro Mayorkas The House Committee on the Judiciary released a staff report on Monday that not only contradicts claims by the Biden administration on the border crisis, but it also reveals with newly obtained data that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has failed to remove more than 99 percent of illegal aliens that were encountered...

AP Images Eric Adams in Mexico City With the migrant crisis in New York City still running rampant, Mayor Eric Adams is no longer simply asking the federal government in America for help — he’s making pleas to other countries.  Adams this week has been on an international trip visiting major Latin American sources of mass migration, during which he...

andykazie/iStock/Getty Images Plus “An unrelenting stream of immigration, nonstop, nonstop … will make white people an absolute minority in the U.S.,” said then-Vice President Joe Biden in 2015. Biden has now echoed this, too, stating in a recent interview that ours will soon be “a minority-white-European country” but that, nonetheless, whites should be treated with “respect.” “We’re going to be...

John Whitehead When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. ― Frédéric Bastiat, French economist Pay no heed to the circus politics coming out of Washington, D.C. It’s just more of...

rawpixel Citing that the Rio Grande Valley Sector in southern Texas is an area of “high illegal entry,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas issued a waiver on Wednesday of over 25 federal laws, including environmental protection laws, to expedite the construction of barriers and roads along the border.  Mayorkas quietly filed the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) waiver with the...