Google employees may have acted on their political biases, as indicated by internal emails obtained by The Wall Street Journal that found staff brainstorming and discussing methods to tweak the company’s search-related functions as a counter to President Donald Trump’s 2017 travel ban. Staff discussed modifying results to guide users toward sites on how to contribute […]

WASHINGTON—The State Department is proposing a 30,000 ceiling for refugee resettlements in fiscal year 2019, according to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sept. 17. The number is a 20,000-person decrease from fiscal 2017, and the lowest since 1980. However, Pompeo said, the United States anticipates processing an additional 280,000 asylum-seekers in fiscal 2019. More […]

WASHINGTON—Watching unmarked, twin-engine planes flying low over his family’s ranch in south Texas made immigration and border security personal to a young Lamar Smith. “It was well-known that these twin-engine aircraft … were flying drugs and landing in these grass runway strips in south Texas,” Smith said during an event hosted by Center for Immigration […]

WASHINGTON—Cross the border into the United States with a child, claim asylum, and you’re home-free. That’s the message smugglers and migrants are hearing, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). “Smugglers and traffickers understand our broken immigration laws better than most and know that if a family unit illegally enters the U.S., they are […]

WASHINGTON—Under the Obama administration, the discovery that unaccompanied children were entering the country, mostly illegally, across the Southwest border, and subsequently being placed with human-trafficking rings, galvanized a Senate subcommittee to investigate. Three years and many recommendations later, the committee says not enough has changed. In 2014, during an unprecedented surge of unaccompanied minors crossing […]

WASHINGTON—A new report has found that at least 3,100 noncitizens were registered to vote in 13 so-called sanctuary cities. The report, titled “Safe Spaces,” was published on Aug. 27 by the Public Interest Legal Foundation, an Indiana-based public-interest law firm devoted to election integrity. “Few sanctuary jurisdictions use systems established to actively detect unlawful registrations […]

MADRID—Spain will not tolerate violent attempts to enter the country, the government said on Aug. 29, in response to criticism of its swift return of 116 illegal immigrants to Morocco after they stormed the fence bordering one of its North African enclaves. The country’s southern shores have become the main gateway into Europe for illegal […]