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New Audit on H-1B Visas
| Social Security Administration's Office of Inspector General has a new report out, "H-1B Workers' Use of Social Security Numbers". The OIG found that about 18 percent of Social Security numbers issued to H-1B workers were being used to report wages from sources other than the approved employer or were reporting no wages at all. This follows a 2008 report from USCIS that found a violation rate in the H-1B program of over 20 percent. The most recent Department of Labor Inspector General report on H-1B is available as well. All of these audits from government agencies provide a striking contrast to the propaganda view of the H-1B program put forth by lobbyists. Read more... |
Who Benefited from Job Growth In Texas?
| Governor Rick Perry (R-Texas) has pointed to job growth in Texas during the current economic downturn as one of his main accomplishments. But analysis of Current Population Survey (CPS) data collected by the Census Bureau show that immigrants (legal and illegal) have been the primary beneficiaries of this growth since 2007, not native-born workers. Read more... |
Job Growth in Texas – Responding to Criticism
| In our new report on jobs in Texas we showed that newly arrived immigrants got most of the recent job growth in that state. There has been some criticism of the report, some from people who apparently did not read it. The comments below, which were forwarded to us, seem to be representative, so I want to address them. Read more... |
A Record-Setting Decade of Immigration: 2000-2010
| New data from the Census Bureau show that the nation’s immigrant population (legal and illegal), also referred to as the foreign-born, reached 40 million in 2010, the highest number in American history. Nearly 14 million new immigrants (legal and illegal) settled in the country from 2000 to 2010, making it the highest decade of immigration in American history. Read more... |
Morning News, 10/26/11
| 1. Feds meet with UT officials 2. CA releases criminal immigrants 3. SC law will affect legal residents 4. Second drone to patrol border 5. BP agent jailed for arrest 1. Feds meet with Utah officials over immigration law By David Montero The Salt Lake Tribune, October 25, 2011 Read more... |
Morning News, 11/3/11
| 1. E-Verify bill splits GOP 2. Panel approves subpoena 3. Cong. Dems plan AL protest 4. AL denies DOJ request 5. TX Atty. Gen. on cartels Read more... |
Connecting the Dots
| Download a pdf of this Memorandum. Janice Kephart is the National Security Policy Director at the Center for Immigration Studies and former border counsel to the 9/11 Commission. Read more... |
Pollsters, Immigration, and the Republican Primary
| It's axiomatic that the nation's leading pollsters, in what amounts to a tacit conspiracy, have for years falsified their reports about the deep disquiet an overwhelming majority of the American people feel about our broken immigration system. This near-universal disinformation has played a key role in the effort on the part of the political and fiscal elite to prevent immigration from emerging as a major national political issue. Read more... |
Is President Obama Right About Engineers?
| Download a pdf of this Memorandum. Steven Camarota is the Director of Research at the Center for Immigration Studies. Read more... |
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Abuses in Summer Work Travel Program Extend far Beyond Hershey and CETUSA
| Last week, the New York Times reported on the State Department's decision to bar the Council on Educational Travel USA (CETUSA) from sponsoring young foreigners who come to the United States in the Summer Work Travel (SWT) program. Read more... |
ICE Names "Public Advocate" – Call Him!
| Today ICE announced the creation of a new office to serve as a point of contact for those who have "concerns, questions, recommendations or important issues they would like to raise." Boy, do we! The office will be led by Andrew Lorenzen-Strait, who has been at ICE since 2008, mainly working as an advisor on reforming detention practices. Prior to joining ICE, Strait was a legal services attorney in Prince George's County, Md. Read more... |
Federal Judge Rejects Illegal-Alien Lawsuit Against County Sheriff
| A federal judge in Maryland this week dismissed a $1 million discrimination lawsuit brought by illegal alien Roxana Orellana Santos against Frederick County Sheriff Chuck Jenkins, the two deputies who arrested her, and the County Board. This is a big win for local law enforcement agencies that follow proper policing practices, even when they expose illegal aliens – in this case, one who was the subject of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) warrant. Read more... |
Summer jobs for foreigners crowd out Americans
| Related Publication: Backgrounder Baltimore Sun, February 13, 2012 February may seem a little early to start thinking about summer jobs. But a "cultural exchange" program run by the State Department is already filling jobs in Ocean City and elsewhere — jobs that will not be available when American kids start looking for work. Read more... |
H-1B Question: What Is the Real Demand for High School Turkish Teachers?
| The H-1B program damages America in a number of ways, directly and indirectly, discouraging young American from following high-tech careers and shunting aside skilled U.S. citizens and green-card holders because of their "advanced age", i.e., anything over 35. This has been widely reported by many, including my CIS colleague John Miano, and Professor Norm Matloff at UC/Davis. Read more... |
Upcoming Panel: Summer Work Travel (SWT) Program
| Please RSVP to: Bryan Griffith, (202) 466-8185, press@cis.org WASHINGTON (March 5, 2012) – Late last year, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ordered an “extensive and thorough review” of the State Department’s troubled Summer Work Travel (SWT) program, a “cultural exchange” initiative which every year brings more than 100,000 college students from around the world to fill low-wage seasonal jobs in the United States. Clinton's move followed last summer's protests by students working at a Hershey Co. warehouse in Pennsylvania that garnered worldwide attention. Read more... |
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Immigration Marriage Fraud and Murder, a Recurring Combination
| I have been collecting news stories that combine immigration marriage fraud and murder. Too often marriage fraud is treated lightly by the press, which uses soft terms like "marriage of convenience" or "sham marriage" to describe this crime. When murder is also involved, the press gets a little more serious, but it often still misses the point. Read more... |
Exit Coming Soon?
| Good news finally has come out of the Obama Homeland Security Department. At a recent House hearing, DHS antiterrorism official John Cohen said that within weeks the department will have a biometric exit portion of the entry-exit system ready to go. Read more... |
Religious Agencies and Refugee Resettlement
| Dowload a pdf of this Memorandum James R. Edwards, Jr., Ph.D., is a Fellow with the Center for Immigration Studies and coauthor of The Congressional Politics of Immigration Reform. Read more... |
Panel Transcript: Summer Work Travel Program
| Related Publications: Report, Panel Video Moderator: Mark KrikorianExecutive Director, Center for Immigration Studies Speakers: Jerry KammerSenior Research Fellow, Center for Immigration Studies Sarah Ann SmithFormer State Department Foreign Service Officer Jeff CollinsVice President, Crystal Aquatics Read more... |
USCIS Modifies Key Form — But the PR Department Blurs the Achievement
| USCIS has done exactly the right thing to one of its forms — a form frequently misused by aliens — but its press people have totally blurred this fraud-fighting accomplishment. I know that a discussion of a government form is sure to glaze the eyes, but this time it is significant. The form is the I-797C — the Notice of Action — which formally confirms that something is happening to an alien's desire for legal status, but does not indicate that anything has happened yet. Some aliens have used it to fool the gullible into believing that the alien has full legal status. Read more... |
USCIS Seems to Predict 88% Failure Rate in the EB-5 Investor Program
| If you compare its numbers in two different governmental publications, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) seems to be predicting that 88 percent of the applicants for EB-5 investor visas will not, in fact, get the green cards that they had been promised for their half-million-dollar investments. There is also a possibility that this is not a prediction of program demise so much as a case of the front-office promoters of this highly controversial program not talking to the green-eyeshade types in their own agency who deal with the Federal Register. Read more... |
Are Bilinguals Smarter?
| Well, actually the title of the article in the New York Times is a bit less equivocal. Its title begins with a conclusion, to wit: "Why Bilinguals Are Smarter". And it then goes on to assert that, "Being bilingual, it turns out, makes you smarter." Read more... |
K-12 Education Systems May Be Losing Interest in H-1B
| Recently, various types of evidence have emerged that show K-12 education is losing interest in hiring foreign teachers through the H-1B nonimmigrant worker program. The inherent disadvantages of the program from the points of view of both students and unemployed U.S. teachers were described in two fairly recent CIS reports: Read more... |
EB-5's Institutional Allies Give the Program a Hard Time
| It's bad enough when the critics attack, but when your allies go after you, as they have on the immigrant investor (EB-5) program recently, look out! The controversial, selling-batches-of-visas-for-half-million-a-pop program took it on the chin recently from such normally pro-migration forces as the op-ed page of the New York Times and a privately owned website for EB-5 news that routinely favors the program. Read more... |
Dear Reader: Please Encourage USCIS Do the Right Thing!
| This is a suggestion to my readers on how you can help USCIS do the right thing with a document that is absolutely vital to the employer sanctions program. The agency is in the middle of revising Form I-9, the form used about 70 million times a year by newly hired workers. Its purpose, though you might not know it from reading the form, is to keep illegal aliens (unauthorized workers) away from U.S. jobs. Read more... |