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Shortly before Vice President (and presumptive Democratic presidential candidate) Kamala Harris made her campaign speech in North Carolina on August 16, CBP released statistics on its encounters at the borders and the ports in July. The good news is that Border Patrol Southwest border apprehensions were down to their lowest monthly level under this administration last month. The bad […]

In my last post, I reported that CBP had released its latest border and port encounter numbers for the month of July on August 16. While the agency is lauding the fact that Border Patrol’s Southwest border apprehension numbers declined last month, it failed to highlight a more disturbing fact: Encounters are surging at the Northern border, and DHS is […]

The new “parole in place” program is based on a strained interpretation of section 212(d)(5) of the Immigration and Nationality Act. Aliens with criminal convictions are generally barred from the program, but USCIS policy will allow applicants to submit evidence of “positive factors” to overcome their ineligibility on the basis of a misdemeanor conviction. Parole […]

New information obtained from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has enabled the Center to update its map of sanctuary jurisdictions. Based on the most recent reporting from ICE field offices, about 170 new jurisdictions have been added to the map. Some of these sanctuary jurisdictions are located in states that have passed laws to prohibit such […]

On August 14, the ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) office in Buffalo, N.Y., reported its officers had arrested Gianfranco Torres-Navarro, a 38-year-old Peruvian national first encountered in May by CBP at the Southwest border after entering illegally, and then quickly processed and released. ERO Buffalo left out the part where he’s also apparently the leader of […]

The press is full of articles explaining Democrats are enjoying a resurgence in popularity now that they have swapped out Joe Biden at the top of their 2024 ticket with Kamala Harris. That’s plainly reflected in the polls, but the most recent Fox News poll identified just one issue that’s a bigger weakness for the incumbent vice […]

On August 19, delegates at the Democratic National Convention approved by voice vote the “’24 Democratic Party Platform” (Platform). Of note, the Platform starts off stating that: e gather together to state our values on lands that have been stewarded through many centuries by the ancestors and descendants of Tribal Nations who have been here since time […]

The DHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a “management alert” this week with the anodyne header: “ICE Cannot Monitor All Unaccompanied Migrant Children Released from DHS and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Custody”. Read past the title and it’s a harsh indictment of a system created by advocates nearly 16 years ago […]

DHS’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) — the internal watchdog overseeing the department’s activities — released a report on what I’ve dubbed the Biden-Harris administration’s “CBP One app interview scheme”. It allows 1,450 “undocumented noncitizens” per day to schedule appointments using the CBP One app, nearly all of whom are then paroled into the United States. The OIG identified significant issues […]

House Judiciary Committee Republicans issued a report this week captioned “The Consequences of the Biden-Harris Administration's Open-Borders Policies: The Cases of Four Illegal Aliens Who Viciously Attacked a Man on a Chicago Train”. Regrettably, such stories are now so common as to be mundane, but the facts of this case are so shocking, they’re notable […]