A recent investigation has revealed significant failures on the part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services concerning the safety of unaccompanied migrant children who enter the borders of the United States. The Office of Refugee Resettlement, which belongs to HHS and is responsible for these children, has faced criticism for poorly vetting sponsors and failing to follow up on safety checks.

Representative Mike Johnson recently claimed that Democrats are pushing for undocumented migrants to have a say in U.S. elections. In fact, highly politicized and controversial debates—those that stand as representative of the greater partisan divide on immigration policy—have been insisted in his case: The integrity of the electoral system would be at stake, while illegal immigration would be incentivized.

The Johnson-Reed Act, better known as the Immigration Act of 1924, had a basic foundation of American immigration policy: it used national origins quotas to reduce largely 'undesired' immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe and totally exclude Asian immigrants.

An immigration surge to the United States has had immense effects on the economy, walking out with bumps in job growth and output. Largely from the easing of pandemic-related travel restrictions, the influx has added millions to the labor force. In this regard, the Congressional Budget Office estimated an additional 5.2 million persons to participate in the labor market in 2033, largely due to a boost in net immigration.

The House of Representatives has just approved a new bill of voter eligibility in an effort to protect the integrity of the electoral process. A bill seeking to standardize voter registration procedures across all states and tightening verification measures to ensure that only citizens get registered for voting garnered bipartisan support.

A new legislative effort has been initiated into the reunification of families that were separated due to deportation by prior U.S. policies on immigration. The proposed plan would make provisions for the return of deported parents and guardians to the United States to reunite them with their children.

The Biden administration's new policies on migrant children represent a radical departure from earlier practices and mandating a humane approach to immigration reform. These mechanisms are purposed to give better care and momentary guardianship to unaccompanied migrant children than was given during the Trump regime.

With a rich background, Alejandro Mayorkas fills the position of Secretary of Homeland Security under President Joe Biden. Born in Havana, Cuba, and immigrated to the United States in his infancy, Mayorkas has done wonders in climbing up through a succession of legal and federal positions to spearhead major immigration reforms.

It is in this dangerous region of Panama, known as the Darién Gap, that a new strategy by the Department of Homeland Security will now have to deal with the flow of immigrants. The initiative forms part of a wider effort and strategy to deal with migration more in a more controlled manner as well as humanely.

The Latino advocacy groups decided to rally against Donald Trump due to his comments on immigration that he had voiced during the first presidential debate. Trump's claim that undocumented migrants from foreign jails are being "dumped" into the U.S. and turning around to commit crimes has been particularly denounced by Latino advocacy groups as harmful rhetoric and unwarranted.