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The Surge in Chinese Illegal Immigration

Security Risk: The Unprecedented Surge in Chinese Illegal Immigration

House Homeland Security Committee, Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations and Accountability

In the three years since the president’s inauguration ending in March 2024, DHS’s alluring quick-release policies resulted in more than 50,000 Border Patrol encounters with Chinese nationals, at escalating monthly rates surpassing 4,500 and reaching nearly 6,000 during calendar year 2024.

Foreign-Born Population Grew by 5.1 Million in the Last Two Years

The foreign-born or immigrant population (legal and illegal) hit new record highs in March 2024 of 51.6 million and 15.6 percent of the total U.S. population. Since March 2022 the foreign-born population has increased 5.1 million, the largest two-year increase in American history.

U.S. Senate Judiciary Hearing on Amnesty for DACA Recipients

It would be a grave mistake for Congress to give consideration to an amnesty, ether for DACA recipients or any other group of illegal aliens, at this time - when the government does not have operational control of the border and is catching and releasing illegal migrants on a mass scale.

Panel: The How and Why of the Mayorkas Impeachment

Featuring Rep. Mark Green, Chairman of House Homeland Security Committee

The Center for Immigration Studies hosted a panel to discuss the history and impact of the impeachment of Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas. Should he have been impeached? Why was he impeached? What are the consequences of the U.S. Senate’s refusal to either hold a trial itself or to appoint an impeachment trial committee to take and consider evidence?

The UN’s Palestinian Refugee Agency

Funded and Advised by the State Department’s Refugee and Migration Bureau

The issue of Palestinian refugees is important, not just in the obvious foreign policy sense, but also to U.S. migration and refugee policy. This report offers an overview of UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees’ history, financing, staff, and institutional culture.

The Surge in Chinese Illegal Immigration

New Record Highs for Foreign-Born

Amnesty for DACA Recipients

Panel: The Mayorkas Impeachment

The UN’s Palestinian Refugee Agency

Immigration Publications

Security Risk: The Unprecedented Surge in Chinese Illegal Immigration

House Homeland Security Committee, Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations and Accountability

Foreign-Born Population Grew by 5.1 Million in the Last Two Years

U.S. Senate Judiciary Hearing on Amnesty for DACA Recipients

Panel: The How and Why of the Mayorkas Impeachment

Featuring Rep. Mark Green, Chairman of House Homeland Security Committee

The UN’s Palestinian Refugee Agency

Funded and Advised by the State Department’s Refugee and Migration Bureau

Immigration Blog

CBP Releases Border Numbers for April

Revealing the futility of administration actions and the effectiveness of Mexican and Texan enforcement

The border has gone from “absolutely catastrophic” to just “catastrophic”. And it’s still a disaster.

Topics: Biden Border Crisis

The Effect of the Border Crisis on U.S. Elections

Don’t overstate it — but don’t discount it either

If the president wants to “defend the right to vote for all Americans who are legally entitled to participate in elections” as he claims, he should start by preventing illicit alien voting.

Topics: Voter Fraud, Illegal Immigration

DHS’s New Immigration Detention Watchdog Opposes Immigration Detention

Like ‘putting an arsonist in charge of conducting oversight of the U.S. Forest Service’

The new immigration detention ombudsman at DHS is reported to be an anti-ICE activist “who has called ICE’s activities ‘abusive’ and wants to limit the agency’s powers of detention”, and asserts that removing illegal aliens before they commit crimes sounds like “a police state”.

Topics: Criminal Aliens, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

Migrants Send List of 13 Demands to Denver Mayor

If you give migrants free housing, they’ll demand the right to ‘cook their own food with fresh, culturally appropriate ingredients’

At some point, law-abiding residents of towns and cities across the globe look like chumps for not taking Denver Mayor Mike Johnson and his fellow municipal grandees up on their offers.

Topics: Biden Border Crisis, Costs of Immigration, Colorado

DOL Is Considering Allowing More Employers to Circumvent Protections for American Workers

CIS submitted a comment explaining why DOL should not allow STEM employers to hire foreign workers without first attempting to hire Americans

There's no permanent "labor shortage" in STEM occupations, so employers seeking green cards for foreign STEM workers shouldn't be exempt from the process intended to protect American workers, imperfect as that process is.

Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty

Biden’s Curiously Timed Effort to Bar Asylum to Terrorist and Criminal Migrants

Could recent incursions by aliens at U.S. military bases be playing a role?

For Biden’s DHS to take the uncharacteristic step of barring asylum claims by illegal migrants who pose terrorist or serious criminal risks now, it must know something it’s not telling the rest of us.

Topics: Biden Border Crisis, National Security, Asylum