When Rand Paul called on senior officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Protection, and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to testify before the Senate, he invoked one of Congress’s most fundamental responsibilities: oversight of executive power. That responsibility is not partisan. It’s constitutional. Yet the moment in which this request arrives reveals…
Justice with Compassion: Considering the Asylum Fee in the OBBBA
Yesterday, we dug into the $46.5 billion proposal to secure our southern border, a major investment in national sovereignty. Today, we’re turning our attention to another measure tucked into the OBBBA: a $1,000 fee slapped on migrants seeking asylum in the United States. For the first time in our nation’s history, those fleeing war, persecution,…