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By Roland Fryer Wall Street Journal, Dec 09, 2025 Donald Trump vowed to launch “the largest deportation operation in American history,” and he has been dispatching federal agents into cities across the country to carry it out. The initiative is marketed primarily as a crime-control strategy—a dramatic show of force meant to signal the return […]

We are a nation with millions of illegal immigrants, in large part because America has long been a place where people in desperate circumstances see hope. For decades, our border policies were inconsistent and, intentionally or not, permissive. Many who arrived during those years have now lived here for years. One cannot fault them for […]

In June 2024, during his presidential campaign, President Donald Trump joined venture capitalist David Sacks and Jason Calacanis on the “All-In” podcast, where Calacanis told President Trump that liberalizing immigration policy would be critical to winning the AI race. Trump promptly agreed, mentioning that he will ensure all international students graduating from U.S. universities automatically get […]

Only Nixon could go to China, and maybe only Trump can finally get a polarized Congress to pass real immigration reform. Who knows whether he will try, but the opportunity is there, as public opinion shifts in response to the President’s border success and mass deportation efforts. “With illegal border crossings down sharply this year, […]

There is, of late, a growing fear, concern or in some cases, rejection of immigrants among a relatively large number of people in the United States. This is despite, according to the Pew Research Center, the U.S. has more immigrants than any other country, a longstanding reality. In fact, in 1880, the United States had […]

The Democrats onstage saw themselves as morally courageous. American voters, it turned out, saw a group of politicians hopelessly out of touch. Standing side by side at a primary debate in June 2019, 10 of the party’s candidates for president were asked to raise their hand if they wanted to decriminalize illegal border crossings. Only one […]

A federal judge in New York has blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to strip immigration protections from Haitians fleeing instability in their country. The ruling Friday from U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan preserves, for now, the Biden administration’s 2024 extension of the protections, known as “temporary protected status,” for up to 500,000 Haitians living in […]