Today, the State Department announced an indefinite pause on immigrant visa processing for 75 countries worldwide, effective January 21, 2026. The justification? Fraud cases in Minnesota involving less than 100 individuals—primarily from one […]
Haiti Qualifies for Their First World Cup in 51 Years—But Their Fans Are Banned From Attending
In June 2026, the United States will host the FIFA World Cup—the largest sporting event in history, featuring 78 matches across 11 American cities. President Trump himself declared at a White House ceremony that the tournament represents “welcoming the […]
How One Client’s Three-Month Delay Reveals the Hidden Dangers of Digital Vetting
In an era where constitutional guarantees like birthright citizenship face unprecedented challenges, a quieter but equally disruptive reality is unfolding at U.S. ports of entry and consulates worldwide: your social media presence has become part of your immigration file—and it can derail your […]
As we have seen many times in history, often with horrific consequences, new leaders frequently try to purge their enemies when taking power. In the case of the potential second term of Donald Trump, his primary public target appears to be immigrants.
President Trump has often outlined his goal of “mass deportations.” There are numerous […]
The Ortegas were all U.S. citizens, from the grandfather, Joaquin Sr., to his son, Joaquin Jr., and Jr.’s wife, Laura, and their three kids, including 17-year-old Joaquin III. What made this family unique was that they were all U.S. citizens, but they were all born in, and still living in, the Dominican Republic.
Joaquin Jr. […]
Google recently laid off 12,000 U.S.-based workers, following a trend of other prominent US Tech companies that recently had massive layoffs.
The engine that drives these companies are the engineers and tech workers, and many of them are foreign nationals who are sponsored by the Googles of the world. Google simply downsizes/adjusts/streamlines (use whatever term […]
Two years after his inauguration, when he called for immigration reform and asked for $3.5 billion to strengthen the border, it took a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions to finally force President Biden to get on Air Force One and see the real-world effect of his administration’s failure to devise a coherent and actionable […]
Have you ever heard of pork-barrel legislation? Do you know where the money that taxpayers pay goes? If you take the time to read through an entire bill that is signed into law that has anything to do with spending or budgets, you will be amazed to find line items that have absolutely nothing […]
In April, I wrote a column about how the use of Title 42 not to follow due process and adequately process the removal of migrants who illegally entered the U.S. was outdated, given that the Covid epidemic had all but disappeared. On November 15, a federal judge agreed with me and struck it down.
Judge […]
In the buildup to the mid-term elections, there was a lot of talk about US immigration, how the system was broken, what would be done with the thousands of migrants coming across the border illegally, and what America wanted to do with them or not. For many past mid-term elections, this was a political […]
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