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Jessica M. Vaughan discusses the challenges of re-vetting Afghan nationals.
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Reports
Why Have Asylum Grant Rates Been Plummeting?
Hint: Elections (and election campaigns) have consequences
By George Fishman, December 1, 2025
Excerpt: Immigration judges’ asylum grant rates have been plummeting since the height of Biden-era bedlam. In the year and a half from February 2024 to August 2025, the grant rate fell from 51 percent to 19 percent.
DOL Reduces Wages for H-2A Workers
Could result in more imported labor and less mechanization
By Philip Martin, November 24, 2025
Excerpt: A analysis finds that a new Trump administration Department of Labor H-2A visa regulation will likely undermine the long-term competitiveness of American fresh fruit and vegetable agriculture by making the use of imported workers less expensive, thus reducing the incentives for mechanization.
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Commentary
Published in the Washington Examiner:
Trump plan to cut farmworker wages hurts America’s competitiveness
By Mark Krikorian, November 28, 2025
Excerpt: The long-term competitiveness of American agriculture is not served by caving to the short-sighted demands of agribusiness lobbyists or the Luddite demands of unions. Instead, the federal government would best serve the interests of farmers, farmworkers, and the nation as a whole by helping the harvest of fruits and vegetables transition to the 21st century.
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Parsing Immigration Policy Podcast
‘Industrialized’ Fraud in the H-1B Visa Program
Host: Jessica M. Vaughan
Guest: Mahvash Siddiqui, U.S. Foreign Service Officer
Episode 231
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Featured Posts
DHS Issues Rule to Expand Biometric Data Collection at Ports of Entry
By Elizabeth Jacobs
Excerpt: CIS submitted a public comment today to support a DHS rule to allow CBP to implement an integrated, automatic entry and exit data system to match records, including biographic data and biometrics, of aliens entering and departing the United States.
‘Mommy, Where Do Federal Judges Come From?’
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: If you’re vexed by nonsensical and counter-productive judicial verdicts related to immigration, you’re not alone – but that’s no reason to abandon a crucial norm that helps make our society function.
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DHS Risks Losing the Immigration-Enforcement Narrative
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: Even the most laudable and meritorious policy will fail if it lacks popular support, and at the moment, there’s a long line of “reporters”, advocates, and politicos taking whacks at what DHS is doing on the ground in cities across the country to undermine the administration’s immigration-enforcement regime.
Judge in Abrego Garcia Case Finally Realizes a Point I Made Months Ago
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: Abrego was represented by counsel in his removal proceedings before the second IJ, and if the second IJ failed to issue a minute order it was up to that lawyer to ask the court to prepare and serve one.
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