Public policy nonprofit releases report on CHIPS and Science Act, cautions against hiring guest workers to fill jobs

Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended two large groups of Central American migrants who illegally crossed the Mexican border into Arizona. The groups consisted mostly of family units and unaccompanied minors. At least five of the migrants required medical assistance. Agents assigned to the Ajo Border Patrol Station came upon a group of 242 migrants while ...

In this photo taken Dec. 14, 2018, paramedic Mickey Huber holds 2-day-old baby Zoele Mickey Skinner at Enloe Medical Center in Chico, Calif. The newborn’s middle name is named after Huber, who helped her mother, Anastasia Skinner, who went into premature labor while trying to ...

This is a rush transcript from “The Story,” December 20, 2018. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. MARTHA MACCALLUM, HOST: Lots of breaking news tonight as the president doubles down on the wall on the brink of a shutdown. Negotiations are ongoing tonight and General Mattis steps down. A huge ...

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. – The U.S. military says the number of active duty troops deployed at the border with Mexico is down to about 2,600. U.S. Northern Command said Friday about 1,200 are in California, 700 in Arizona and 700 in Texas. President Donald Trump sent the troops just before the midterm election, citing a ...

In an exclusive interview Thursday with “Fox News @ Night,” Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen praised Defense Secretary James Mattis’ work on border security, just hours after he announced his sudden resignation. Mattis, whose departure will take effect Feb. 28, “has proved to be an incredible partner” to DHS on a variety of matters, including ...

Art Arthur, a resident fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) and former immigration judge, told Breitbart News it is “unclear” if a federal court ruling on Tuesday requires the U.S. government to return of all previously deported aliens whose asylum requests were rejected. Arthur offered his analysis in an interview Wednesday on Breitbart News ...

Congress is the world’s oldest deliberative body in the world’s oldest democracy. The result of that democracy, and the Constitution on which it rests, are America’s laws. Those laws are like the people who made them: imperfect and conflicted. But even so, those laws are ours – they are legitimate, and they are the foundation of ...

A man looks out at the U.S. border where workers are replacing parts of the U.S. border wall for a higher one, in Tijuana, Mexico, Dec. 19, 2018. (Associated Press) Smugglers and undocumented immigrants attempting to ...

H.R. 392 is Dead in The Water for 2018

TIJUANA, Mexico – Three people were detained in the killing of two young Honduran migrants in Tijuana, authorities said Wednesday, and Mexican media reported the victims had come to the border city across from San Diego as part of the caravan of more than 6,000 people that arrived last month. Baja California state prosecutors said in ...

The U.S. State Department announced on Tuesday that it is pledging more than $10 billion to help strengthen the economies of Central America and Southern Mexico to stem the flow of thousands of migrants surging into the country. “The United States pledged $5.8 billion in aid and investment Tuesday for strengthening government and economic development in ...

America’s top earners, by a majority, support a plan to raise taxes on themselves in order to help stop illegal immigration to the United States. A new Rasmussen Reports Poll finds that Americans earning $200,000 or more are the only economic demographic group willing to hike taxes on themselves to stop rising illegal immigration levels at ...

Honduran asylum seekers enter the U.S. at San Diego’s Otay Mesa port of entry, as seen from Tijuana, Mexico, Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018. Six Honduran asylum seekers spent a chilly night camped out on a tiny patch of U.S. soil at a San Diego border ...

Monday on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” host Tucker Carlson reacted to critics crying foul over his remarks last week claiming some types of immigration made the country “poorer and dirtier and more divided.” Carlson’s comments pertained to how immigration can impact the labor market, environment and ...

TIJUANA, Mexico – Several asylum seekers, joined by two members of the U.S. Congress, waited on a small patch of U.S. soil for hours demanding that their claims be processed immediately, challenging a U.S. policy to make people wait in Mexico if there are capacity constraints. The 21 Honduran asylum seekers camped on U.S. soil at ...

When the latest migrant caravan was marching toward America, the media focused on mothers accompanied by small children even though they were only a small number of the total group. During the media frenzy over illegal alien parents separated from their children at the border last summer, outrage was stoked by images of children behind ...

In what may be the most defiant lame duck plot in recent history, outgoing House Speaker Paul Ryan has, mostly under the radar, put forward a plan to make thousands of U.S. jobs available to Irish nationals. Illegal immigration is rarely associated with the Irish, but some have been living in the United States unlawfully for ...

The treacherous trek to illegally cross into the United States is rife with peril, as migrants risk death, sexual assault and separation from their loved ones. And for less than $20, tourists can join in the journey. As the migrant crisis continues to unfold along the southern border, visitors looking for a fully-immersive experience can pay for ...

Is steel more moral than concrete? House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California said last week that she and other Democrats consider a border wall “immoral.” But some of the same Democrats who decry President Donald J. Trump’s proposed concrete wall as a 30-foot-tall human-rights violation actually approved 700 miles of steel barriers under the Secure ...

President Trump paid a Saturday visit to Arlington National Cemetery, where thousands of volunteers had just taken part in the rain in the annual holiday wreath-laying tribute to those who served—and died– in America’s wars. Trump made the unscheduled stop to the famous military ceremony about 2:15 p.m. ET, hours after the event began. “They do a ...

Thousands of volunteers gathered at Arlington National Cemetery Saturday for the annual holiday wreath-laying event that pays tribute to those who served—and died– in America’s wars. Every December, Wreaths Across America places wreaths on the graves at Arlington and other veterans cemeteries. “Spending a rainy Saturday morning helping with Wreaths Across America at Arlington!!” Jessica Moyer told ...

President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen must wrap the blame for the dehydration death of a seven-year-old migrant child around the necks of her father, Ninth Circuit judges, and open-border progressives, says Mark Krikorian, director of the Center for Immigration Studies. Democrats “are trying to turn this poor little girl into a martyr for open ...

Potential 2020 Democratic presidential candidates and progressive activists spent Thursday weaponizing the death of a 7-year-old migrant girl who reportedly died in U.S. Border Patrol custody — though officials say she hadn’t eaten or consumed water for several days before the arrest. U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., a likely leading 2020 contender, immediately jumped on the news, ...

The U.S. Northern Command announced Thursday that some of the troops stationed at the U.S.-Mexico border will be sent home due to “the completion of border hardening missions.” A number of engineering, logistics and headquarters elements will head back to their bases to ready for other assignments, NORTHCOM Spokesperson Capt. Pamela Kunze said in a news ...

Members of the Central American migrant caravan are trying to bypass the U.S. asylum request process with staged border crossings in Tijuana. As members of the Central American migrant caravan primarily made up of Hondurans wait their turn to speak to U.S. officials about asylum, others are bypassing the process with staged border crossings filmed by ...

FILE – In this Oct. 23, 2018, photo, President Donald Trump speaks following a ceremony signing the “America’s Water Infrastructure Act of 2018” into law in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington. For some time now, Trump has been encouraging people to ...

FiveThirtyEight founder Nate Silver claimed that racism and sexism are why 29-year-old Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez drives “certain Republicans crazy.” “There are lots of reasons Ocasio-Cortez drives certain Republicans crazy,” Silver tweeted Tuesday, “foremost among them her race and gender.” Additionally, he asserted that criticism also stems from the fact that Ocasio-Cortez is “quintessentially a New Yorker and DC ...

Businesses in Fiscal Year 2018 aimed to outsource nearly 420,000 American jobs to foreign workers, a total that outpaces the total population of Tampa, Florida. Every year, more than 100,000 foreign workers are brought to the U.S. on the H-1B visa and are allowed to stay for up to six years. There are about 650,000 H-1B visa foreign ...

FILE – In this Nov. 2, 2018 file photo, Salvadoran migrants cross the Suchiate River near Tecun Uman, Guatemala, the border with Mexico, as the caravan of Central American migrants make its way north with the stated purpose of entering the United States. Mexico will ...

Central American migrants march to the U.S. consulate in Tijuana, Mexico, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo) (AP) Two groups of Central American migrants marched to the U.S. Consulate in Tijuana on Tuesday with a list ...