Matt O'Brien

Matt O'Brien


  • Deportation plans don’t exist to please migrants

    December 19, 2024

    Deportation plans don’t exist to please migrants

    President-elect Trump hasn’t even taken office again and the chattering classes are already having a meltdown about what they see as the negative effects “mass deportations” will produce.  A significant amount of the pe...

  • The media pushes nonsensical migrant narratives

    October 10, 2024

    The media pushes nonsensical migrant narratives

    Have you ever taken a serious look at how the mainstream media covers immigration? There isn’t a unitary narrative about migrants. There are actually multiple, contradictory storylines, and that’s deliberate. So, instead of following t...

  • What America can learn from ancient Rome’s death by mass migration

    September 18, 2024

    What America can learn from ancient Rome’s death by mass migration

    It is a common historical myth that Rome fell in 476 A.D. after Odoacer, King of the Goths, sacked the capital city and forced Romulus Augustus to abdicate his throne. The historical reality is rather different. Over the course of nearly a century...

  • New Biden-Harris program brings less border security, more marriage fraud

    August 24, 2024

    New Biden-Harris program brings less border security, more marriage fraud

    The Biden-Harris administration recently began taking applications for its Parole-in-Place program (PIP). Under this new scheme an illegal alien who: has lived in the U.S. for 10 years or more; married a U.S. citizen prior to June 17, 2024; and ca...

  • Vetting alone won’t secure borders

    June 20, 2024

    Vetting alone won’t secure borders

    A recent sting operation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the FBI resulted in the arrest of eight Tajikistani nationals who are suspected of ties to the ISIS terror group. All eight were subjected to background checks when the...

  • On reducing immigration backlogs, bigger isn’t always better

    April 20, 2024

    On reducing immigration backlogs, bigger isn’t always better

    When the federal government deports an immigration violator, charges are brought before the U.S. Immigration Court. If the court orders the violator removed from the U.S., he or she can appeal that decision before the Board of Immigration Appeals (BI...

  • Yes, Georgia, there is a connection between migrants and crime

    March 18, 2024

    Yes, Georgia, there is a connection between migrants and crime

    Athens, Ga., Mayor Kelly Girtz recently held a now-viral press conference to address the murder of Laken Riley by Venezuelan migrant Jose Antonio Ibarra. Rather than expressing outrage at the murder of a promising young woman by a man who simply ...

  • June 28, 2023

    Why Bexar County, Texas's Sheriff Salazar needs to be removed from office

    According to the Miami Herald, Bexar County, Texas, Sheriff Javier Salazar recently completed a criminal investigation of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and has recommended that Texas prosecutors file charges. What heinous crime did DeSantis comm...