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By RAZVAN SIBII

Here’s an incomplete list of the kinds of immigrants that, at some time or the other, the U.S. government has said should not be coming to this country: Syrians, convicted criminals, Chinese, anarchists, Libyans, people who are illiterate, Eastern...

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Somehow, even though Donald Trump himself delights in describing how he’ll shut down various immigration programs, I still meet people who are convinced that “He’s not anti-immigration, he’s just anti-illegal immigration!”I can’t tell whether they...

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Among the countries that take in a lot of immigrants, the United States stands out for its heavy emphasis on “family reunification.” What that means is that many people who become naturalized Americans do so because they have a spouse or a close...

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When President Biden announced that he was going to deport asylum-seekers without respecting their legal right to due process because the border is too congested, many liberals and moderates cheered. They viewed this draconian measure as Biden finally...

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Earlier this month, the White House put out a “Fact Sheet” meant to explain President Biden’s latest immigration-related executive action, which orders American authorities to drastically limit many immigrants’ ability to make their case for asylum...

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A little more than a year ago, after I published a column about the most toxic myths surrounding the issue of immigration, I received an email from a reader that took me to task about my use of the word “America” to refer to the United States of...

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The loud and shameless politics that surrounds the issue of undocumented immigration makes it easy to miss the moves that the Biden administration has been making in the realm of legal immigration, from rebuilding the refugee program to expediting the...

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The question in the headline has a short answer, a slightly longer answer, and a long answer.The short answer is, “Meh.”The slightly longer answer is, “It’s a mixed bag.” He came in strong with liberal ideas about giving all asylum-seekers the due...

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Last month, my column was an end-of-the-year top 5 list of hypocrisies that poison our current discussions about the migrant crisis at the southern border [bit.ly/3RLgE6s]. I think I got more emails about that column than about any other I’ve written...

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Immigration is a complicated issue. It’s difficult to decide which of the millions of people in need of urgent assistance should be welcomed into the country. It’s difficult to figure out what “assimilation” means and to what extent we should ask...

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No. The border isn’t open. Not even close. It’s is full of walls and fences, sensors and cameras, patrol cars and helicopters, rivers and mountains. And running this gauntlet is extremely dangerous business that often costs desperate border-crossers...

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In my column last month, I painted an admittedly dystopian picture of the U.S.-Mexico border in the relatively near future: a no man’s land where American border agents use lethal force to repulse loosely organized groups of desperate migrants...

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Donald Trump didn’t back down often when he was president. There were very few instances when the American people — and, most importantly, his conservative constituency — were so appalled at his egregious deeds or utterances that he actually felt the...

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Last month, I wrote about a new immigration program, called the Welcome Corps, which allows regular Americans to sponsor the relocation of refugees into their neighborhoods (https://shorturl.at/hvGZ5). The program, which the Biden administration calls...

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Surprisingly enough, since establishing its current refugee resettlement program in 1980, the U.S. government has not made it easy for regular citizens to get involved in helping newcomers settle into their new American lives. Usually, after the state...

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Who said, “I believe in the idea of amnesty for those who have put down roots and lived here, even though sometime back they may have entered illegally”? Was it one of those bleeding-heart liberals who want open borders and have no respect for how...

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While the vast majority of Americans have long given up on preventing the spread of COVID-19, the Biden administration has found it convenient to keep alive a Trump-era regulation that speeds up the deportation of asylum-seekers under the pretext that...

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For three months now, I have been writing a series of columns about the myths, misunderstandings and disinformation surrounding the issue of immigration. I’ve been building my arguments on information acquired through close to two dozen interviews I...

By RAZVAN SIBII

“But, uncle,” you say, “your own great-grandmother was an immigrant! If she hadn’t come to America, we wouldn’t be here!”“Sure, but she came the right way! She didn’t cross the border illegally,” comes the inevitable answer.You know better than to...

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 When Trump kicked off his presidential campaign in 2015 by talking about how Mexico is “sending” us immigrants who are cold-blooded criminals, I shook my head and thought, “Wow, he went straight to the oldest trick in the populist book: ‘The bad guys...