Immigration

Venezuela-Lagunillas-18-03-2015- An oil extraction pumps are seen at oil fiel in Lagunillas.

Venezuela Sanctions: A Failure On All Fronts

U.S. sanctions have only entrenched the Maduro regime and opened up the country to Russian and Chinese penetration. 

The U-2 Spy Plane Is Patrolling the Southern Border

The U-2, although not typically conceived as a tool relevant to such domestic policies, has been a part of the effort to stem illegal migration.

What Poland Can Teach The Democrats About Immigration

Small concessions on immigration are insufficient if the fundamental position is deemed wrong by the majority of the electorate. The first phase of the Trump administration’s mass deportations has been...

More Investment, More Competition, Less Panic

Editor’s note: In February, The National Interest organized a symposium on the U.S.-China technology race amidst the emergence of DeepSeek and ongoing legal battles over TikTok. We asked a variety of experts the following...

Berlin, Germany, 2024-01-16: Friedrich Merz at a meeting in Berlin

Germany’s New Chancellor Must Do the Unthinkable

If he wants an effective governing majority, Chancellor Friedrich Merz must invite the AfD into the government. Germany’s election this week put the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Christian...

America Needs to Make More Ships. Here’s One Unconventional Way It Can.

There simply are not enough young people going to work in America’s shipyards. Could legal immigrants fill in for them?

A Decisive Month for Germany

In trying to avoid the mistakes of the past, Germany’s liberal politicians are pushing their country right back toward them. One of the most pointless cliches holds that “those who...

Trump’s Agenda Will Rise or Fall with the Americas

It’s clear the “America First” agenda will not ultimately succeed without getting the Americas right. Secure borders. Controlled migration. Stopping fentanyl. Lowering inflation. Winning the innovation race. Building safe and...

Marco Rubio Reveals His Big Plans for the U.S. State Department

Like the Trump presidency, Rubio placed mass migration and border security at the top of his priorities list. Marco Rubio, Donald Trump’s newly-confirmed secretary of state, has assumed office with gusto, dispersing...

Can Donald Trump And Claudia Sheinbaum Work Together?

In a historic moment for Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum has become the country’s first female president. She inherits a landscape filled with challenges, ranging from emboldened criminal organizations to strained relations...

Will Donald Trump Restart America’s Inflation Crisis?

There is good news and bad news on the inflation front. The good news is that inflation has come down from its May 2022 high of 9 percent to close...

Donald Trump: A Threat to the U.S. Economy?

H. L. Mencken, the late American journalist, famously wrote that “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”...