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Lots of people have written to me arguing for cutting Biden slack, he's cleaning up Trump's immigration messes, the record-low refugee admissions we're on track for must somehow be Trump's

If anything, monthly refugee admissions have *slowed* since Biden took officeTrump signed his FY2021 refugee ceiling ("presidential determination") late, on 10/27/20 (FY began 10/1). In Trump's last full month in

Earlier this year I wrote about visa applications getting rejected for having inapplicable blanks on them. Thanks to a newly resolved FOIA suit, we now have a better sense of

So...I just scraped new State Dept data on student visas (F-1's), and it looks like student visa issuance fell by ~70% from FY2019 to FY2020. This is an astounding idiotic

A chart-based tweed-thread on my column today, which argues that Trump's political agenda has backfired -- he's driven Americans away from his major policy views, including immigration, trade, healthcare.https://www.washingtonpost.c

Favorable views of the US and our president have fallen to record lows in many countries. Respondents in Pew survey were more likely to say they expect Putin & Xi

DHS employees, whose bosses just engaged in a partisan political stunt by broadcasting a naturalization ceremony as part of the RNC, received an email today reminding them not to violate

I am so tired of this narrative that the economy was in the toilet under Obama and Trump revived it. Unemployment was 4.7% when Trump took office. Average GDP growth

“Middlename” field left blank because you don't have a middlename? No address for your dad b/c he's dead?No siblings listed because you’re an only child? Sorry, your immigration applications have

No stimulus deal anytime soon, "partly because White House chief of staff Mark Meadows is out for the week but mostly because the administration feels confident they have the upper

For the first time since Gallup began asking in 1965, more Americans say immigration should be increased rather than decreased. Immigration is supposed to be Trump's signature issue; yet he's

Cotton think it's a "scandal" that "we have trained so many of the Chinese Communist Party's brightest minds to go back to China" to compete with the US. One solution