New Immigration Research

Gang of Eight Submit Amnesty Bill
View Bill Information and CIS Senate Testimony

Poll View the text, summary and status of the Sen. Schumer and Sen. Rubio amnesty bill, entitled, "Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act (S.744)". The Center's commentary on the bill is also listed. Read more...

An Interview with FDNS Architect Don Crocetti
Expert Tells of Fraud and National Security Risks

Graduates A top immigration fraud expert tells of fraud and national security risks in our legal immigration system and what should be done about it, in a new video series from the Center for Immigration Studies. Read more...

Rubio’s Deceptive Amnesty Ad

Graduates The minute-long advertisement calls the proposal "conservative immigration reform" and attempts to make amnesty appealing to Republican voters. Partisan politics aside, the amnesty ad is misleading on a number of counts, outlined in this report. Read more...

The First Quarter of 2013 Employment Picture

Poll All of the available evidence indicates that the employment picture for those with relatively little education remains dismal. The situation is particularly dire for those under age 30 who have no more than a high school education. Read more...

The Fiscal Impact of Immigration
Heritage's findings are incontrovertible

Graduates The report's lead author, Robert Rector, finds that illegal-immigrant households use about $55b more in services than they pay in taxes each year. Under the Schumer-Rubio bill, the annual costs would balloon to $106b a year after ten years. Read more...

Do Good Intentions Get in the Way of Good Journalism?
Panel Video and Transcript Available

Graduates The Center for Immigration Studies hosted a panel discussion exploring the effects of ideological bias in the media coverage of immigration policy on May 6, at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Read more...

America Has More Trained STEM Graduates than STEM Job Openings
So Why Import Foreign High-Tech Workers?

The supply of trained graduates in STEM fields exceeds the number hired, and will into the foreseeable future. Despite this, Rubio-Schumer immigration bill which reflects a push by tech firms to bring more H-1B temporary workers, and other STEM workers, into the job market. Read more...

Obama’s Deportation Claims Disputed
Higher Immigrant Deportation Numbers, But Fewer Deportations

Poll According to internal ICE statistics, immigration enforcement activity has been in decline since the imposition of the Obama administration’s “prosecutorial discretion” policies in June 2011. Read more...

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Immigration Blog

Security First or Legalization First?

By Mark Krikorian, May 24, 2013

A Fox News poll this week illuminates the core issue in the current immigration debate. On the one hand, 66 percent of registered voters chose the following option over sending all illegals back or enrolling them in a temporary worker program:

Allow illegal immigrants to remain in the country and eventually qualify for U.S. citizenship, but only if they meet certain requirements like paying back taxes, learning English, and passing a background check.

A Mix of Conspiracy and Democracy: The S. 744 Process to Date

By David North, May 24, 2013

The manner in which the Gang of Eight's S.744 reached the floor of the Senate included a mix of both open democracy and behind-the-doors secrecy.

Regardless of the merits of the omnibus immigration bill (which many find wanting) the procedures used to get the bill to, and through, the Senate Judiciary Committee were both interesting and uneven. I have been following the bill for weeks and watched many hours of the Committee's mark-up, during which it considered, at least nominally, hundreds of amendments.

You might say that there were three phases of the bill's history so far. Read more...

Hatch Supports Amnesty Despite Clear Utah GOP Opposition

By Ronald W. Mortensen, May 24, 2013

The pro-amnesty wing of the Utah Republican Party continues to be rebuffed by thousands of state and county delegates despite incessant attempts to get the party to embrace the Utah Compact's phony amnesty agenda.

In spite of grassroots opposition to amnesty, Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch voted for S.744 in the Judiciary Committee, placing the interests of the Salt Lake Chamber (which created the Utah Compact, and threatened him with recall) ahead of the interests of the popularly elected Republican delegates who are largely responsible for returning him to office. Read more...

President Obama's Trust Deficit

By Stanley Renshon, May 23, 2013

With all the good will that greeted Barack Obama's historic election as president, he assumed office at the end of a long period of decline in the public's confidence in its government. And he knew it.

Dan Balz, a reporter for the Washington Post wrote this in 2010: Read more...