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Mark Krikorian

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The Roe v. Wade of Birthright Citizenship

The president was never going to win the birthright citizenship case. But what makes it, in Justice Samuel Alito’s words, “one of the most...

02.07.2026 10

National Review

Mark Krikorian

Happy Juneteenth!

Many conservatives are ambivalent, at best, regarding today’s holiday, which is understandable. It was enacted by Congress and signed into law by...

19.06.2026 10

National Review

Mark Krikorian

Biden’s Border Crisis Will Return If We Don’t Close These Loopholes Now

Presidents have shown that they cannot be trusted to be responsible in using the discretion Congress has given them in immigration policy.

18.06.2026 8

The Federalist

Mark Krikorian

NYT Discovers Illegal-Immigrant Attrition Through Enforcement

There are two ways to get illegal immigrants out of the United States: ICE deportations and self-deportations. Elsewhere I have described these two...

04.06.2026 10

National Review

Mark Krikorian

The OPT Foreign ‘Student’ Work Program: End It, Don’t Mend It

Recent months have seen a series of blockbuster fraud stories: childcare fraud in Minneapolis, Medicaid fraud in Ohio, hospice fraud in California....

14.05.2026 20

National Review

Mark Krikorian

Dirty Work, Done Dirt Cheap

The Wall Street Journal has published what may be the most Wall-Street-Journal-y piece on immigration imaginable. It’s on the difficulty restaurants...

15.04.2026 10

National Review

Mark Krikorian

Et Tu, Cesar? Chavez’s Sexual-Assault Allegations Were the Last Straw

Back in 2014, when I designated Cesar Chavez’s birthday as National Border Control Day, it was, of course, partly a troll. The left had turned...

31.03.2026 20

National Review

Mark Krikorian

Why America’s 250th misses the point

03.02.2026 20

Washington Examiner

Mark Krikorian

How Democrats game the census for power

03.02.2026 20

Washington Examiner

Mark Krikorian

Trump is finally advancing long-sought US goals in Cuba and Venezuela

03.02.2026 20

Washington Examiner

Mark Krikorian

In the rush to hold insurers to account, don’t forget about hospitals

03.02.2026 20

Washington Examiner

Mark Krikorian

Body-armor vs. briefcase immigration enforcement

03.02.2026 20

Washington Examiner

Mark Krikorian

NYT: Biden Caused the Biden Border Crisis!

11.12.2025 30

National Review

Mark Krikorian

Vetting in All the Wrong Places

03.12.2025 30

National Review

Mark Krikorian

Trump plan to cut farmworker wages hurts America’s competitiveness

28.11.2025 30

Washington Examiner

Mark Krikorian

Can the Dems Outflank Trump on Immigration?

19.11.2025 20

National Review

Mark Krikorian

Driver’s license given to deadly illegal migrant trucker shows how blue states undermine border security

Blue states keep finding new ways to undermine the federal government’s crackdown on illegal immigration.

19.08.2025 30

New York Post

Mark Krikorian