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From Ishaan Tharoor at the Washington Post comes an argument that Europeans resisting the wave of migrants from Middle Eastern hell-holes have got it all wrong. The new arrivals will actually save Europe, by repopulating it with someone other than Europeans.

In an appearance at the Iowa State Fair on Tuesday, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) criticized Donald Trump’s immigration plan—specifically the proposals to end birthright citizenship and deport the millions of illegal immigrants in the U.S.—as “not workable” and “not realistic.”

In the immigration plan he released Sunday, Donald Trump slammed Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for making the path easier for immigrants to land jobs at high-tech firms.

Spanish-language TV Network Univision seems bothered about the first Republican presidential debate because, according to them, comprehensive immigration reform was not addressed by the 17 candidates who participated in the debates on Fox News.

In the brief immigration section of Thursday night’s debate, Chris Wallace asked Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) if he agreed with Donald Trump that criminals were coming across the border. Rubio ignored the question about documented illegal alien criminality and declared that he believes, “we need a fence,” as well as an “E-Verify and Entry-Exit Tracking System.”

The Department of Homeland Security is instituting new security requirements for those countries in the Visa Waiver Program — or countries whose nationals do not need visas for short visits to the U.S. — due to the threats posed by foreign fighters, DHS Sec. Jeh Johnson announced Thursday.

Republican presidential candidate and former Texas Governor Rick Perry said that he wasn’t sure if the US needed to reduce the number of legal immigrants “until we’re able to find out who these people are that are in the country

A dos semanas y media de que un grupo de sicarios secuestro un camión con 11,500 visas destinadas a los consulados de Monterrey y Guadalajara, el Gobierno Mexicano se ha mantenido callado al respecto.

The Mexican government has remained silent for two and a half weeks after a group of gunmen hijacked a truck carrying 11,500 U.S. visas that were destined for the American Consulates in Monterrey and Guadalajara.

The “ObamaTrade”– Trade in International Services Agreement– bill being debated in the Senate currently includes a proposal to relax visa requirements for Pakistani nationals, in addition to a number of other provisions that have conservatives up in arms.

A University of California, Davis professor is scoffing at a new report from the libertarian Niskanen Center that claims the importation of high-skilled immigration helps job creation in the U.S.

Federal authorities have shut down at least six U.S. schools in recent years over allegations of immigration fraud. The schools often dupe students into believing that they are accredited and collect hefty tuition fees, but provide little if any instructional education.