Immigration Blog

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How a Twice-Deported Would-Be Hijacker Got Released from DHS Custody

DHS chief claims Honduran was ‘allowed into our country because of a weak asylum system that allowed him to game the system’

Topics: Asylum, Criminal Aliens

Why Does the DHS Secretary Hate Worksite Enforcement?

‘Briefcase enforcement’ is a lot safer — and more effective — than ‘warrant raids’

Topics: Attrition and Enforcement

SCOTUS: Construction on Big Bend Sector (Texas) Border Wall Can Continue

Not every claim is a constitutional one — and judges must live with the balances Congress has struck in ensuring the border can be secured

Topics: Supreme Court Decisions on Immigration Policy

CIS Comments on Proposed $100,000 OPT Fee

Topics: Optional Practical Training Program (OPT)

H-1B Recipients Are Not the ‘Best and Brightest’

Topics: H-1B Nonimmigrant Visa Progam

Net Migration in 2025 Was Half What the Census Bureau Had Estimated

Results from the American Community Survey may affect measurement of employment, use of social services, crime victimization, and more

Topics: Population Projections

Excerpt: The Amnesty Crowd Shouldn’t Get Too Excited

Topics: Amnesty and Comprehensive Immigration Reform

H-1B Wages at Top 20 Employers Substantially Less than U.S. Wages

Topics: H-1B Nonimmigrant Visa Progam

The Missing ‘Pro-Enforcement Republicans’ in the NBC News Exit Poll

Maybe the answer to why millions of GOP voters didn’t show up was in the surveys all along

Topics: Politics, Polls and Surveys

The Immigration Paradox That Dare Not Speak Its Name

The more Congress tries, the worse things get — for some pretty obvious reasons

Topics: Biden Border Crisis, Population and Environment, Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) (1986), Attrition and Enforcement