Immigration Reform Law Institute’s Matt O’Brien sat down with Congresswoman Victoria Spartz (IN-05) to discuss the Biden Administration’s gross mishandling of the border.
Author: Matt O'Brien
Matt O'Brien
Matt OโBrien is the Director of Investigations at the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI). He is a former immigration judge and previously served as a division head at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Mr. OโBrien has nearly 30 years of experience in immigration law and policy.
Shortly before the holidays, CBS News announced that the United States added a total of 1,023,200 citizens in 2022 โ the highest number in 14 years and the third-largest conferral of citizenship on record. CBS attributes the increase to a Biden administration directive instructing U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to promote naturalization and speed up the process. But why does the Biden administration think it needs to encourage aliens to naturalize? Why are we trying to speed up the naturalization process? And why would we waste taxpayer dollars encouraging foreign nationals to apply for something that they are already requesting in…
Even as the Biden administration has effectively erased the southern border of the United States, our neighbors to the North seem to be waking up to the importance of borders. Quebec Premierย Franรงois Legault,ย whose CAQ party (Coalition Avenir Quรฉbec/Coalition for the Future of Quebec) won a majority by running on a responsible immigration platform, has secured a second term. And this time it appears that even more voters were attracted by CAQโs promises to protect French as Quรฉbecโs official language; to give preference to Francophone immigrants and to cap migration at 50,000 individuals per year. This is not to say that…
News outlets all over the United States, and even abroad, have been reporting on a bizarre scene that recently played out near Eagle Pass, along the border in Texas. As a group of would-be illegal aliens amassed near a gate in the border fence, soldiers from the Texas National Guard arrived and locked the gate. A short while later, agents of the U.S. Border Patrol โ the federal agency responsible for enforcing immigration law along Americaโs borders โ arrived and opened the gate, allowing the waiting foreign nationals to enter the United States. The Texas National Guardsmen looked on helplessly.…