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.
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 article explains why the progam is a major improvement over previous policies, and how it can be further improved and made a model for refugee policy generally.
The Human Rights Foundation is mobilizing a global band of activists to fight authoritarianism in China, Iran, Russia, and beyond.
In sharp contrast to the sclerotic traditional refugee admissions program, the new private refugee sponsorship program enables Ukrainians fleeing war and repression to enter the US quickly and relatively easily. As a participating sponsor myself, I have firsthand knowledge of its effectiveness.
Washington Post columnist Keith Richburg explains how foot voting patterns are a strong indicator of the relative appeal of governments.
GOP governors' ploy highlights the value of giving states the power to issue their own migration visas. It can simultaneously ease labor shortages, reduce disorder at the border, enable more migrants to escape poverty and oppression, and help restore the original meaning of the Constitution.
Critics of the Martha’s Vineyard flights are raising a bevy of questions about the finances and alleged deception behind the scheme.
The governor flew dozens of Venezuelans to Martha's Vineyard at taxpayer expense, even though they fled a regime he says "is responsible for countless atrocities."
The 54,000-word draft document is a feeding frenzy of political interests looking to codify special rights and privileges.
While Temporary Protected Status will last through 2024, only Venezuelans who arrived before March 2021 will be eligible.
Biden's decision to exclude nondemocratic countries led to a boycott by allies.
A new book vividly portrays human beings coping with daily existence in a disintegrating society but offers an incoherent analysis of what went wrong.
"It's abundantly clear [Trump] has no regard for the suffering of the Venezuelan people," Biden said in October 2020 before engaging in many of the same practices toward asylum seekers.
"It's abundantly clear he has no regard for the suffering of the Venezuelan people," then–presidential candidate Biden said of Trump's deportation flights.
"Greed is constant. If it's greed, how do we explain prices falling?"
The Atlas Network's Antonella Marty on the bad ideas that have undermined wealth and stability in the region
Accusations that a Miami attorney “scammed” Venezuelan asylum seekers speak volumes about the cruelty of the U.S. immigration system.
The idea that massive government spending, hate speech laws, and gun control will improve America—when they failed horribly elsewhere—is a dangerous myth.
Busy exploiting its Venezuelan colony, the communist regime failed to see the discontent brewing at home.
Ignore the hype: Latin American immigration is (still) the city’s greatest strength.
A Chavez-style socialist is the leading contender to become the nation's next president.
The country just gave almost 2 million Venezuelans a pathway to citizenship.
"It's an escape hatch from tyranny," writes the Human Rights Foundation's Alex Gladstein. "It's nothing less than freedom money."
Venezuela has the world’s largest proven oil reserves. It's out of gasoline.
The documentary La Causa is a raw look into these self-organized societies, complete with taxes, courts, and a strict "thug code.”
If the Latino vote is to determine America’s future, it might help both parties to look southward and attempt to understand the people they want to sway on their own terms.
Despite economic ruin in their native country, Venezuelans have no reason to stay in increasingly locked-down Colombia.
The DOJ has accused Maduro of using "cocaine as a weapon" to devastate American cities.
The granddaughter of Cuban and Hungarian refugees says that political, economic, cultural, and sexual freedom are all intertwined and non-negotiable.
Raíces Venezolanas, or Venezuelan Roots, gives household items and a heavy dose of moral support to immigrant families showing up in South Florida.
Good luck with that.
Sen. Rand Paul's new book discusses the horrible things that befall countries that tried it.
Rand Paul takes on socialist arguments about Venezuela, Scandinavia, and fairness.
The Brexit architect explains what the media got wrong about Brexit, the rise of "Bannonism and Bernie-ism," and what went wrong in Venezuela.
One of Brexit's architects says leaving the EU is a victory for free trade and decentralization and warns that a Corbyn victory will destroy the U.K.'s future.
Venezuela's failed collectivist experiment brought death and despair to a once-prosperous country.
The council's design all but ensures absurdities like this.
Cryptocurrency is a human rights issue, explains Alex Gladstein of the Human Rights Foundation.
Attempts to centrally plan an economy ruin both civic life and life's pleasures.
A new report from the U.N.'s High Commissioner for Human Rights finds a "shockingly high" number of politically motivated extrajudicial killings.
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