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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

Questions about the Foreign Student Attempting to Breach Marine Corps Base Quantico

The case illustrates how every part of the nation’s immigration system is susceptible to fraud and how the Biden administration’s border policies and interior enforcement policies are a clear threat to national security.

Topics: Student Visa Fraud, Foreign Students, National Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

Op-ed: 100 years ago, the US took a break from immigration — and America thrived

One hundred years ago this Sunday, the Ellis Island wave of immigration was brought to an end. And all Americans are better for it.

Topics: Immigration History

States Seeking to Curb Illegal Immigration Can Start by Curbing Access to Professional Licenses

State laws that base eligibility for state public benefits (including professional and commercial licenses) on temporary work authorization awarded by the federal government are counteracting legal efforts by their own attorneys general to minimize the negative impact of the Biden administration’s open-border policies.

Topics: Biden Border Crisis, State and Local Policy, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)

Border Patrol Suicides and the Senate Border Bill’s Agent Training Mandates

‘We see things people should never see’

Rather than bunkering in the Capitol for months, the drafters of the Senate border bill should have gone to the border and done a little “cross-cultural communicating” with the agents. The result likely would have been heavier on security and resilience, and lighter on subjects agents already understand too well.

Topics: Biden Border Crisis, Customs and Border Protection (CBP)

Exploiting Mass Immigration to Displace Blacks

The early twentieth century’s Great Replacement Theory

As we approach the centenary of the 1924 law that brought the first Great Wave of immigration to an end, it's important to note that, to the unfortunate extent that racist thought insinuated itself into immigration thinking at the time, mass immigrationists were just as susceptible as restrictionists.

Topics: Black Americans, Immigration History

Ineffective and Problematic Senate Border Bill Rises from the Dead

More Frankenstein than Lazarus, a stunt to shift blame to the GOP for the border

If you wanted to break the border, destroy the morale of CBP officers and Border Patrol agents, and give cartels carte blanche to continue to exploit the chaos at the U.S.-Mexico line to run deadly drugs into the United States, this bill is as good a starting point as any.

Topics: Biden Border Crisis, Politics