Lora Ries is director of the Border Security and Immigration Center and a senior research fellow for homeland security at The Heritage Foundation.
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One of the Left’s emotional weapons it uses to continue its open border agenda is unaccompanied alien children. A historic number of these children have… Read More
InternationalCommentary
The Left has intentionally chosen emotional weapons to achieve its open-borders agenda—asylum, unaccompanied alien children, “humanitarian parole,” and nongovernmental organizations, particularly faith-based groups. The Left… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
In a scathing opinion on Wednesday that questions the credibility of the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. District Court Judge T. Kent Wetherell II for… Read More
Commentary
The Biden administration’s proposed new asylum rule, “Circumvention of Lawful Pathways,” is an erroneously named gimmick on top of a shell game to cover up… Read More
SecurityCommentary
The U.S.’s nearly two-year-old border crisis continues unabated, yet Senate Democrats and some Republicans are foolishly resuming a push to grant amnesty to hundreds of… Read More
LawCommentary
As the U.S. southern border is being overrun with record numbers of illegal aliens month after month, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday approved the… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas issued the sixth National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin of the 17-month-old Biden administration on June 7. With a new bulletin… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Constitutionalists, free-speech lovers, and sane people alike cheered upon hearing the announcements that the Department of Homeland Security was disbanding its nascent Disinformation Governance Board… Read More
SecurityCommentary
The Biden administration is publicly proud of its open border policies and seeks to “expand on the historic progress” it has made over the past… Read More
SecurityCommentary
The Justice Department last week announced creation of a domestic terrorism unit to focus on a purported significant threat facing America. Also last week, President… Read More
