Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is pushing back against the argument that payments to migrant families separated at the border would lead to more illegal immigration. During a hearing ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Washington Times' Stephen Dinan explained the concepts of push and pull factors and discussed the reasons for migration out of Central American ...

The head of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) claims that moves by Republican governors to transport illegal immigrants deeper into the interior are acting as a "pull factor" drawing more migrants ...

For years there have been claims that sea rescue is a pull factor in asylum-related migration. But is this theory true? Some argue that more people will dare to embark on the perilous journey across ...

Regional residents and tourists are coming to Alexandria to shop, making it one of the top three statewide for its “pull factor” for similar-sized cities. Alexandria’s taxable retail and service sales ...

Home Affairs Minister Byron Camilleri last week pointed to a widespread claim that the presence of NGO search and rescue (SAR) operations near Libya is a pull factor for migrants hoping to cross the ...

Round 42 in the never ending war against ratbaggery brings us to the argument of what drives asylum seeker numbers – push factors vs. pull factors. Proponents of the push factor view claim that the ...