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On today’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy, Rep. Tiffany and Jon Feere, the Center’s Director of Investigations and former ICE Chief of Staff, discuss the powerful tool the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) provides by allowing the U.S. to withhold visas from recalcitrant countries, the need for tightening and strengthening the language in the INA, the executive’s lack of enforcement, and the ACE Act.

“Why is Joe Biden so obsessed with killing oil and gas jobs in America and creating them in Venezuela?” Rep. Thomas Tiffany (R-Wis.) responded to a report about the general license. Tiffany is a member of the House Committee on Natural Resources.

Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee have begun rolling out their investigative plans for next year in the wake of securing the House majority, and their plans include questioning nearly a dozen individuals within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

On March 1, 2021, congressmen Tom Tiffany and Scott Perry introduced a bill that called for the U.S. to abandon the "one China policy," resume formal relations with Taiwan, and begin negotiations on a U.S.-Taiwan free trade agreement. Since its introduction, the bill has gained 28 additional cosponsors, all of whom are Republicans thus far.

It’s no secret that violent crime is ravaging our country. Every single day, Americans turn on their TV after a long day of work to see another homicide, another smash-and-grab robbery, or another assault. From 2019 to 2020, Wisconsin experienced a 62% increase in murders, and we are hardly alone. In 2021, twelve major Democrat-controlled cities broke annual homicide records, and just this year, homicide rates across the country have increased roughly 50% compared to this time in 2019.

“The U.S. can’t afford to be dependent on adversarial foreign countries, like China and Russia, for critical minerals,” said Rep. Tom Tiffany (R., Wis.), who sponsored the legislation. “Ukraine is not an adversary and has some of the largest titanium deposits in Europe.”

We’ve had two years of one-party rule as Democrats control the White House, the House of Representatives, and the Senate. The results are not good. 

The town of Gordon has had a post office for 162 years. When they learned it was set to close, residents turned out in droves for a rally at the post office Oct. 20 and inundated the United States Postal Service phone lines with calls. A petition to save the site garnered more signatures that the town's population. The movement to retain the Gordon Post Office received support from both state Rep. Nick Milroy, D-South Range and U.S. Congressman Tom Tiffany, R-Hazelhurst, as well as Sen. Ron Johnson’s office.