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Build streamlined immigration, not a useless border wall

Political campaign season is starting to ramp up (not that it ever really ended), so we’re going to hear a lot more about illegal immigration and the border wall. Already, the national Republican Party has started running ads proclaiming the only way to fix America’s immigration ...

Don’t blame Canada for raiding U.S.’s tech talent

America’s prosperity depends on attracting foreign talent. Yet due to a dysfunctional immigration system, millions of workers face insurmountable hurdles to gaining permanent residence. It was always a risk that other governments would take the opportunity to lure skilled workers away from ...

W.Va. National Guard a pawn in a political game

We care deeply about the devastating impact fentanyl has had on our communities. And the best way to address the very real fentanyl crisis is to address the source: Organized transnational criminal activity that works to smuggle the deadly drug through legal ports of entry, often done by ...

The border isn’t an impossible problem

by Christopher M. Richardson While the end of Title 42 did not lead to the border surges some anticipated, America still faces an immigration crisis, with a backlog of nearly 1.6 million asylum cases. Officials apprehended migrants crossing the border more than 5 million times from ...

Harassing Samaritans on brand for GOP

by Francis Wilkinson The Republican war on migrants and asylum seekers has been one of the more successful GOP campaigns of recent years if you measure success by volume of vitriol.  GOP politicians travel repeatedly to the border to provide fresh content for Fox News and to ...

Immigration should be about more than politics

Whichever side of the spectrum you’re on, the topic of immigration has never been more political than it is today. I know because I had to speak in public about the migration crisis recently, and it was a real challenge to decide whether to speak about the disappointment and heartbreak in ...