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U.S. Southern Border

An immigrant attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border by illegally by climbing over the border fence in Brownsville, Texas in July 2009. Credit: Nofx221984 via Wikimedia Commons.

‘Gross distortion’ to assert Jewish values endorse unlimited immigration, says rabbi

As some Jewish groups applaud the end of Title 42 amid a historic surge of immigrants and asylum seekers on the U.S. southern border, New Jersey Orthodox Rabbi Steven Pruzansky says the Torah allows nations to defend their boundaries.

May 15, 2023

Thousands of migrants seek asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border, Dec. 21, 2022. Credit: Ruben2533/Shutterstock.

Liberal Jewish groups need to own the disaster at the border

With rules they called “cruel” about to expire, arguing that the surge of illegal immigrants posing as asylum seekers is analogous to Jews fleeing the Nazis has to stop.

Jonathan S. Tobin

May 8, 2023

A migrant from Mexico scaling the border fence into the United States. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Where’s the outrage over Biden comparing illegal immigrants to Holocaust victims?

Millions of economic migrants crossing the U.S. southern border want a better life. But most are neither refugees nor analogous to Jews fleeing Nazi slaughter.

Jonathan S. Tobin

January 10, 2023