Asylum & Refugees

Swelling Tide of African Migrants Challenges U.S.

Sub-Saharan Africans, the fastest growing cohort of immigrants to the U.S., are being hailed as a windfall for America. Between…

Virtue signaling: The last refuge of Virginia’s Governor Northam

Buoyed by his party’s recent state election victory, Virginia’s Democratic Governor Ralph Northam decided to thumb his nose at President…

Politics and Immigration: TPS Extended Again

The Trump administration reversed itself last week and reinstated TPS (Temporary Protected Status) for nationals from Haiti, El Salvador and…

New UN Report Finds African Migrants to Europe are Neither Destitute nor Politically Persecuted

At the peak of the surge in 2015, more than a million migrants made the treacherous journey across the Mediterranean,…

Asylum Seeker With ISIS Flag Tried Killing Five in Canada, But Don’t Call Him a Terrorist

A Somali national who traveled illegally through the Americas and the U.S. is on trial for the attempted murder of…

Fake Refugees Make Themselves at Home in U.S.

“Tens of thousands”of fraudulent refugees from Africa bought their way into the United States since the late 1990s and are…

Turkey Threatens to Flood Europe with 3.6 Million Syrian Refugees

Last Thursday, Turkey’s Islamist president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, threatened to “open the gates and send 3.6 million Syrian refugees into…

Mainstream Media Raises Concerns about Impact of Growing Number of Asylum Cases (on Mexico)

The flood of migrants and the growing backlog of asylum cases clogging up courts and straining social services has many…

Seeking Asylum in Guatemala is Completely Appropriate

Even before the ink could dry on the recent “safe third country” asylum agreement signed between the United States and…

Asylum ‘Rocket Dockets’ Confront Some Speed Bumps

Attempting to catch up with a growing backlog of some 900,000 cases, immigration courts in 10 U.S. cities are giving…