The program extends the successful Uniting for Ukraine policy to migrants fleeing Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Haiti.
Participants included Prof. Adam Cox (NYU), David Bier (Cato), Kit Taintor (Welcome.US), and myself.
We once ranked No. 4 in the world, according to the Heritage Foundation. Now we're 25th.
The bipartisan legislation would grant permanent residency and work rights to some 400,000 refugees from Venezuela's brutal socialist dictatorship.
Participants include Prof. Adam Cox (NYU), David Bier (Cato), Kit Taintor (Welcome.US), and myself.
A new study by the conservative Manhattan Institute concludes that the expansion of private sponsorship parole to migrants from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti and Venezuela has reduced illegal migration across the southern border by about 98,000 per month.
"If there is freedom, private property, rule of law, then Latin Americans thrive," says the social media star.
Biden extended the successful Uniting for Ukraine model to cover migrants from four Latin American nations with oppressive governments and horrible conditions, thereby greatly reducing illegal migration from those nations. This effect undercuts a lawsuit challenging the program, filed by twenty red states.
Iván Prieto didn’t board the flight back to the communist island on Monday.
The flaws in the states' position are revealed by their own governors' statements about the evils of socialism and the crisis at the border.
The interview covers the Uniting for Ukraine program, the expansion of private refugee sponsorship to cover migrants from elsewhere, and various potential objections to these policies.
So many Cubans and Haitians arrived at once that Dry Tortugas National Park was forced to temporarily close.
Responses to some of the most common queries I have gotten.
There's still much more to be done to establish fair and efficient processes at the border.
The question now is whether Bolsonaro’s coalition can remain in place once the man himself is out of power.
Washington Post columnist Keith Richburg explains how foot voting patterns are a strong indicator of the relative appeal of governments.
Record numbers of Cubans are arriving in the United States as the communist nation struggles economically.
The island’s communist government announced it would allow foreign investors to enter its nationalized retail industry as it faces shortages, blackouts, and new protests.
One year after major pro-democracy protests swept the communist island, dissidents and leaders in the Cuban-American community remain hopeful that change is coming.
Biden's decision to exclude nondemocratic countries led to a boycott by allies.
A new White House policy faces one of the most malignant foreign policy objections: that it's not a magic wand for regime change.
How did something so at odds with reality persist for so long? And why is it finally crumbling?
Havana Libre tells the story of Cuba’s underground surfers struggling to practice their sport.
The U.S. government's continued insistence on criminalizing trade with Cuba is self-destructive.
Martha Bueno's organization, People 4 Cuba, smuggles food and medicine directly into the hands of suffering Cubans to help undermine an oppressive dictatorship.
The Atlas Network's Antonella Marty on the bad ideas that have undermined wealth and stability in the region
Biden should denounce Cuba’s communist tyranny while pushing for more free trade with Cubans.
The members of Zeus fought for the freedom to be frikis. Then they joined the Castro government's official Agency of Rock.
Plus: Cuba violates the rights of peaceful protesters, New Zealand leads the world in zoning reform, and more...
"A key part of the control in Cuba is keeping people afraid, keeping them isolated from one another," says Henken. The internet has mitigated this.
Economic freedom is the key to other kinds of freedom.
"The Cuban people are not asking for military intervention."
The technological hurdles might be too difficult to overcome, but it's worth trying.
Busy exploiting its Venezuelan colony, the communist regime failed to see the discontent brewing at home.
"They're arresting people at their homes."
The Biden Administration is wrong to bar those who arrive by sea.
Historic protests enabled by social media and cellphone footage are threatening to finally end Castro's revolutionary regime.
Biden promised to be an immigration changemaker. Where is the change?
Demonstrators are making themselves heard via Facebook, Signal, and other platforms. Is that enough to overthrow an authoritarian regime?
President Joe Biden says America "stands firmly" with the people of Cuba who oppose the country's oppressive regime. But he can do more than offer words of support.
Plus: Texas parolee prosecuted for voting, tales from the eviction moratorium, and more...
Ignore the hype: Latin American immigration is (still) the city’s greatest strength.
"When I started my blog," says journalist Yoani Sánchez, "it was like an exorcism of something that was inside of me."
His rationale is both weak and would have justified keeping out his own father - a refugee from Cuba.
If the Latino vote is to determine America’s future, it might help both parties to look southward and attempt to understand the people they want to sway on their own terms.