The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) grant allocations have long been a subject of scrutiny, especially concerning their impact on sanctuary jurisdictions — those localities that deliberately obstruct federal immigration enforcement. This report delves into the latest data from 2023, expanding the search for funding to the Office of Justice Programs (OJP). Background The Center for […]
The Biden administration made two important immigration policy announcements this week. The first, which my colleague Andrew R. Arthur wrote about in detail, will allow aliens who are in the United States illegally and married to U.S. Citizens to receive “parole in place”, which would put many on a pathway to citizenship. The second, which I […]
The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) submitted a public comment on June 12, 2024, to respond to the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) notice of proposed rulemaking that will allow (but not require) asylum officers to apply some of the mandatory bars to asylum and withholding of removal to credible fear screenings. The policy change, which was originally initiated by the Trump administration […]
Amulti-state FBI counterterrorism wiretap sting has rolled up eight Tajikistani nationals in three cities who had entered over the U.S. Southwest Border and were plotting some sort of bombing. On its own, what little is known about this terrible new consequence of President Joe Biden’s ongoing historic mass migration border crisis – a coordinated, large-cell infiltration attack […]
The chaos at the border in recent years, along with even Democrat-run cities complaining about its impact, have cast into stark relief one of the central issues såurrounding illegal immigration: its fiscal costs. Unfortunately, most discussions on the subject tend to be filled with misconceptions, half-truths, and at times even outright falsehoods. A fair read […]
The amnesty the White House announced today is simply the latest — and maybe not even the largest — of its many unilateral decrees legalizing and/or letting into the country individuals who have no right to be in the United States. Unless Congress is willing to completely cede its power over immigration, as it has over […]
Sunday is the 100th anniversary of Calvin Coolidge signing the Johnson-Reed Immigration Act, which brought the Ellis Island immigration wave to an end. In my New York Post op-ed, I argue that the official narrative that the law was execrable needs to be retired: “It was precisely the two-generation-long pause in immigration brought about by […]
Last November, shortly after House Republicans elected Mike Johnson as speaker of the House, Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody and 25 other state attorneys general (AG) co-signers, urged the speaker to bring forward H.R. 1337, the “Immigration Enforcement Partnership Act of 2023” filed by Rep. Bill Posey (R-Fla.), a bill that would give state AGs greater authority […]
The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) submitted a public comment this week to respond to a Department of Labor (DOL) request for information (RFI)1. DOL was soliciting input regarding whether STEM occupations (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) should be added to the list of occupations that DOL has “predetermined” are experiencing a “labor shortage” (known as the “Schedule A” list) -- that […]
DHS has publicly released a report captioned “Parole Requests” it sent to Congress back in December. It‘s only current through the end of last June but skip the boilerplate and go to a chart on page 10 that shows that in the first ninth months of FY 2023, DHS paroled in nearly 870,000 facially inadmissible aliens with no legal […]
Op-ed: Biden Breaks Law to Give Millions of Migrants Work Permits The Biden administration is doing an end-run around the nation’s immigration laws — by giving migrants work permits in record numbers. Since President Biden took office, more than 3.3 million migrants have been given a Employment Authorization Document (EAD), commonly known as the federal […]
By refusing repeated chances to simply rule out a terrorism motive for a May 3 truck-breaching attack on the Quantico Marine Corps base, the Biden administration and all involved agencies have essentially confirmed one of America’s worst — and most politically consequential — nightmares related to the ongoing border crisis. A terror attack emanating from […]
