Immigration

AP Images AfD leaders at a party meeting in Germany Unhappy with its growing popularity among German citizens, some German politicians and media outlets are calling on the right-leaning Alternative for Germany (AfD, Alternative für Deutschland) Party to be banned. AfD is currently leading in polls, with the nation’s next general election scheduled for June of next year. Founded in...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has raised eyebrows as the first right-sympathetic populist to run as a Democrat since William Jennings Bryan. Launching with twenty paid staff and functioning now with seventy, Kennedy’s campaign has latched on to several issues important to mainstream Republicans—Covid tyranny, censorship, government surveillance—as well as to the dissident right: public health threats posed by chemicals in...

The upcoming presidential election is more than a year away, yet the excitement over the Republican primary, the chances that President Joe Biden could drop out before Election Day, or the curiosity of a third-party candidate swinging the likely rematch between former President Donald Trump and his successor has already piqued the interest of politicos.  Many Trump supporters believe that...

AP Images Giorgia Meloni Last month, right-wing Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni revealed that she would be granting 452,000 work visas for non-EU nationals from 2023 to 2025. This is a sharp increase compared to the 30,850 permits that were issued in 2019. The Meloni government cites labor shortages in several industries due to an aging and declining population. Meloni...

Democrats and Republicans have significantly converged when it comes to immigration policy. But they would never admit it. When federal Judge Jon Tigar first struck down a new asylum policy out of Washington, most Americans knew who their hero was and who their villain was in the affair. Then-President Donald Trump had ordered that applications for asylum could only be...

Texas’s efforts to stop the smuggling of drugs, weapons, and people into the United States under Operation Lone Star have borne fruit, according to data provided by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who pledged to continue deploying “every strategy” available to respond to the border crisis. Operation Lone Star started in March 2021 in response to a surge in illegal immigration,...

Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee released a scathing report on Wednesday evening accusing DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas of intentional “dereliction of duty” in securing the nation’s borders. The GOP interim report claims Mr. Mayorkas has “actively encouraged and facilitated mass illegal immigration,” neglecting his sworn oath to “control and guard” the borders. The investigation, initiated earlier under Chair...

House Lawmakers voted on July 19 to pass a bill banning public K-12 school facilities from being used to provide shelter for immigrants who entered into the United States illegally. H.R. 3941, also known as the “Schools Not Shelters Act,” was introduced earlier this month by Rep. Marc Molinaro (R-N.Y.) in an attempt to prevent New York Governor Kathy Hochul from...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.—Although he has faced investigations and persecution since becoming a politician in 2015, former President Donald Trump declared that, yes, he would do it all over again “without even a question.” That was Mr. Trump’s response when a successful businessman wondered whether he regretted leaving behind a cushy life as a billionaire real-estate mogul. Mr. Trump recounted that conversation...

ilbusca/iStock/Getty Images Plus The youngest officer to command a vessel in U.S. naval history, it may shock most to learn, was 12-year-old David Farragut, who served as a prize master in 1812. Such a reality certainly is incongruent with our age, in which 15-year-olds wile away hours playing video games and youth irresponsibility is rife. Mankind’s norm has been for...

This past Monday, *, a new anti-immigration law took effect in Florida. This past Monday, *, a new anti-immigration law took effect in Florida. It is a step backward for human rights and a new attack by the Republicans on the Hispanic community in the U.S. In past months, when Republican legislators proposed that U.S. armed forces enter Mexico to...

Strong jobs market and savings built up since the pandemic spur consumer spending OTTAWA—As the Bank of Canada raised its trend-setting interest rate to 5 percent on July 12, it noted that households are on average in better financial shape than some reports might suggest.  Bank of Canada senior deputy governor Carolyn Rogers said the central bank wanted to take...

AP Images U.K. Home Secretary Suella Braverman in Kigali, Rwanda After many challenges, the Court of Appeal in England has ruled the Rwanda Plan unlawful. Two of the three judges on the Court of Appeal found that Rwanda is not a safe country for asylum seekers. The judges claim that there are “deficiencies” in the country’s asylum system, meaning that...

Rajesh Pandit/iStock/Getty Images Plus It seems as if Archie Bunkers are everywhere today — only, their prejudice has gone woke. Bunker, the seasoned among us may know, was the famously amusing ’70s sitcom bigot in hit show All in the Family. Apropos to the story here, in one episode Archie was apoplectic because a black family was poised to move...

By Martin 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘺𝘎 Gottesfeld Jun 30, 2023 John Roberts, one of Harvard’s four Supreme Court Justices, was photographed at Harvard Law School (fair use). By The Harvard Crimson “Fool me once…” the cliché goes. Harvard has a long history of both discrimination and insincere reforms. Its past record illuminates its possible future. For example, Harvard’s systematic use of low “personality”...

Anne Milgram, head of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), has said that social media companies haven’t been as cooperative as they could have in addressing the fentanyl crisis. “We have not until recently gotten nearly as much cooperation as we need,” she said on Sunday during an appearance on NBC’s “Meet The Press.” Social media companies have to comply with...

A number of Republican candidates for next year’s presidential election are delivering increasingly extreme messages as they vie for the vote of the more reactionary, xenophobic and racist sectors of our neighbor the United States. Prominent among them is Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, to date the most serious rival for former President Donald Trump in the race for Republican presidential...

From Afghanistan to Iraq, from Libya to Syria, the United States has always intervened in the internal affairs of other countries and waged wars under the banner of “democracy” and “freedom.” This has resulted in tens of millions of civilians being displaced and turned into refugees. In 2001, the United States launched military strikes against Afghanistan. Over the next two...

*Editor’s note: On March 4, 2022, Russia enacted a law that criminalizes public opposition to, or independent news reporting about, the war in Ukraine. The law makes it a crime to call the war a “war” rather than a “special military operation” on social media or in a news article or broadcast. The law is understood to penalize any language...

Canada’s housing market has good reason to be rising despite 4.5 percentage points of Bank of Canada interest rate hikes since March last year. But policy-makers are taking steps to contain risks stemming from the housing market and analysts expect prices to start dropping. “I’m pretty sure the Bank of Canada is not happy seeing the housing market start to...