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Presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has named Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to replace her as the vice presidential candidate for the Party of Jackson. So where does Walz stand on immigration? Let’s first look at the governor’s championing of a recently enacted law, which enables illegal aliens to obtain valid Minnesota driver’s licenses — notwithstanding concerns […]

The Aspen Institute was founded on the conviction that a better society requires better leaders who are more self-aware, more self-correcting, and more humane. Over the past seven decades, the Aspen Executive Seminar on Leadership, Values, and the Good Society has established a track record of challenging participants from diverse backgrounds to evolve into better […]

Retired Democratic Massachusetts congressman Barney Frank took to the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal last week to support the Biden-Harris administration’s latest half-hearted effort to limit the number of migrants who can claim asylum. Frank and I don’t agree on much, but I fully embrace his contention that, “People around the world have learned they […]

On Friday, August 2, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld a U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) regulation that grants work authorization eligibility to certain H-4 nonimmigrant visa holders in a lawsuit called Save Jobs USA v. DHS. H-4 visa holders are dependent spouses or unmarried children (under the age of […]

In a recent post, I began an analysis of various immigration-related positions that Tim Walz, presumptive Democratic vice-presidential candidate, has taken as Minnesota governor. Next up are free health care and college tuition for illegal aliens residing in the state. SF 2995. On May 23, 2023, Walz signed the One Minnesota Budget, which included Senate File (SF) 2995, the “Health […]

In the decades following the American Civil War, millions of white Southerners moved away from the old Confederacy and settled in other parts of the United States, especially the border states and the West. These migrants made a lasting cultural impression. In fact, research shows that the greater the percentage of white Southern migrants in […]

You’ve likely heard that singer Taylor Swift recently cancelled three concerts in Vienna after Austrian police foiled a terrorist plot to attack fans outside the arena and “kill as many people as possible”. You’ve also likely heard that at least one of the teenaged plotters was allegedly radicalized by Islamic State (ISIS) and al-Qaida propaganda. What you […]

While critics — and more than a few media outlets — have described Vice President Kamala Harris as the administration’s “border czar”, her allies maintain she’s only responsible for addressing the “root causes” of illegal migration, and even then, only migration from the “Northern Triangle” nations of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. There’s both less and a […]

In March, I reported on the arrest of Haitian national Cory Alvarez, who entered under the Biden-Harris administration’s “CHNV” parole program and was then arraigned in state court in Massachusetts on one count of aggravated rape of a 15-year-old girl at a state-funded shelter. The case has taken a few strange turns since, with a state court […]

In my last post, I examined Vice President Kamala Harris’s duties running the administration’s “root causes” strategy, which has focused exclusively on illegal migration from the “Northern Triangle” nations of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. I’ll now explain that strategy in the context of the administration’s efforts — or lack thereof — to address “pull factors” drawing migrants […]