Worried About the Mortgage Market? Don’t Blame an Immigrant Anti-immigrant zealots, as part of their never-ending crusade to blame immigration for virtually every economic and social problem in the United States, continue to insist that the collapse of the subprime mortgage market was rooted in nefarious home purchases by undocumented immigrants. On November...

Canada’s immigration backlogs - blatantly racist South Asian immigration applications are disproportionately affected by quotas/targets and immense backlogs. For example, the quota, or target as Ottawa calls it, for the New Delhi office is 9,245 visas a year. The backlog as of April 10 was 145,556. With no new applications, it would take a little under...