Extensive evidence indicates that the decision to end Temporary Protected Status for Haitian migrants was motivated by unconstitutional racial and ethnic discrimination. The Court's ruling on statutory issues also has flaws.
Understanding the 6–3 decision in Mullin v. Doe.
My Cato Institute colleague David Bier presented it in testimony before a congressional committee.
The president's cruel and pointless ban on immigration or visits from nationals of 12 countries will have no significant safety benefit for Americans.
A blow to recent arrivals from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela
The Administration isn't wrong to admit white South African migrants. But it is wrong to exclude all other refugees, including many fleeing far worse discrimination and oppression.
The brief is on behalf of the Cato Institute and myself.
The Administration ended the CHNV "parole" program for 530,000 migrants from four Latin American nations, including three ruled by authoritarian socialist regimes. They will soon be subject to deportation.
The move effectively retcons J.D. Vance's claim that legal Haitian immigrants were actually here illegally.
A Haitian art exhibit in Washington, D.C., reminds us there is much more to the country than false allegations about eating cats.
The decision is simultaneously cruel and counterproductive.
To justify his misinformation, the Republican vice presidential candidate cited a report from a woman whose lost cat turned up, very much alive, in her own basement.
Plus: A listener asks the editors to ponder which election was the most important one in their lifetimes.
Donald Trump's running mate says he is willing to "create stories" if they help call attention to the costs of lax immigration policies.
Despite scaremongering to the contrary, Haitian immigrants don't eat cats, and have much lower crime rates than native-born Americans. There are some broader lessons to be learned from this epsode.
The program should not have been suspended to begin with. The restart, unfortunately, includes some dubious security measures that will make applications more difficult and time-consuming.
The program allows Americans to sponsor migrants Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Haiti. The Administration suspended it based on extremely dubious concerns about fraud.
Suspending the parole program for Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela could increase illegal entries and undermine border security.
A new CBS article details the successes of a program enabling Americans to sponsor Ukrainian migrants fleeing the Russian invasion to live and work in the US.
Reason immigration writer Fiona Harrigan surveys the growth of private migrant sponsorship programs. They have had impressive successes, but still suffer from unfortunte limitations.
The ruling allows the CNVH private sponsorship program - covering migrants from Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Haiti to continue. But it is likely to be appealed.
The case was filed by 20 red states seeking to dismantle the CNVH program extending the successful Uniting for Ukraine policy to migrants fleeing Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Haiti.
The program extends the successful Uniting for Ukraine policy to migrants fleeing Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Haiti.
Participants included Prof. Adam Cox (NYU), David Bier (Cato), Kit Taintor (Welcome.US), and myself.
Participants include Prof. Adam Cox (NYU), David Bier (Cato), Kit Taintor (Welcome.US), and myself.
A new study by the conservative Manhattan Institute concludes that the expansion of private sponsorship parole to migrants from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti and Venezuela has reduced illegal migration across the southern border by about 98,000 per month.
Biden extended the successful Uniting for Ukraine model to cover migrants from four Latin American nations with oppressive governments and horrible conditions, thereby greatly reducing illegal migration from those nations. This effect undercuts a lawsuit challenging the program, filed by twenty red states.
The flaws in the states' position are revealed by their own governors' statements about the evils of socialism and the crisis at the border.
The interview covers the Uniting for Ukraine program, the expansion of private refugee sponsorship to cover migrants from elsewhere, and various potential objections to these policies.
So many Cubans and Haitians arrived at once that Dry Tortugas National Park was forced to temporarily close.
Responses to some of the most common queries I have gotten.
There's still much more to be done to establish fair and efficient processes at the border.
The move is a step in the right direction. But it has limitations and is combined with harmful "border enforcement" measures.
The U.S. should instead reform immigration pathways for Haitians to come to America and remove barriers for NGOs to do work in Haiti.
The Marine turned anti-imperialist had two very different legacies, but both clearly emerged from the same man.
Their deaths are the tragic, predictable consequence of shutting down safer migration paths.
Biden presented himself as the immigration antithesis of Trump, but such promises have not been kept.
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That’s why its role in our lives should be reduced to the minimum.
Today's mediagenic crowds at the border in Del Rio, Texas, are a predictable and unnecessary result of restrictive migrant policies.
It’s unclear what a military intervention could even accomplish.
The Biden Administration is wrong to bar those who arrive by sea.
Biden promised to be an immigration changemaker. Where is the change?
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How former slaves built an autonomous, self-sufficient, and nearly stateless society in the mountains of Haiti, and how they lost it
Centuries of mistreatment by the U.S. is a primary cause of Haiti's plight.
The whole point of America is that it doesn't matter where you come from. It matters what you do when you're here.
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