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Immigration courts need reform
| miamiherald.com, July 20, 2011 President Obama’s recent call for comprehensive immigration reform and its echo in more recent Senate hearings largely miss the point that America’s immigration system is upside down. No better example of this topsy-turvy failure is its immigration courts. Their frustrated judges call them “play courts.” In reality, they are courts that are built to fail. Read more... |
The Hinder the Administration’s Legalization Temptation (HALT) Act (H.R. 2497)
| The Hinder the Administration’s Legalization Temptation (HALT) Act (H.R. 2497) U.S. House Judiciary Committee Sub-committee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement 2141 Rayburn House Office Building Tuesday, July 26, 2011 1:30 p.m. Statement of Jessica M. Vaughan Director of Policy Studies Center for Immigration Studies Read more... |
Built to Fail
| Below is the unedited version of an op-ed that appeared in: Lexington-Herald, July 24, 2011. Read more... |
The Open Door:
| Panel Discussion Transcript May 22, 2002 National Press Club Washington, D.C. Read the report Moderator: Mark Krikorian, Executive Director, Center for Immigration Studies Panelists: Steven A. Camarota, Director of Research, Center for Immigration Studies Jan Ting, Professor of Law at Temple University and a former Assistant Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service Read more... |
To Reform Immigration, Legal and Illegal
| National Review, August 15, 2011 Read more... |
Border Watchlisting a Decade after 9/11
| Download a copy of this Backgrounder Janice Kephart is the Director of National Security Policy at the Center for Immigration Studies. Summary Read more... |
Upcoming Panel: Our Borders a Decade after 9/11
| WASHINGTON (September 2011) – Ten years after 19 foreign hijackers staged the 9/11 attacks, much has changed in America's immigration and border-control policies, and much has not. The Center for Immigration Studies will host a panel discussion to examine what's been done in immigration and related areas since 9/11 to strengthen America's security and what challenges remain. The panel discussion will be on Thursday, September 15, at 9 a.m., in Room 2237 of Rayburn House Office Building. The speakers will include: Read more... |
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Obama's Immigration Fiat
| The National Interest, September 8, 2011 Most U.S. states require all those riding in an automobile to wear seat belts. But failure to wear a seat belt is usually a "secondary offense," meaning that you cannot be pulled over and ticketed solely for that infraction but instead must be pulled over for speeding or some other offense first. Read more... |
The To-Do List
| Related Publications: Panel Video, Panel Transcript, Topic 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. Introduction Read more... |
Illegal Immigrants Receive Billions of Dollars More from the IRS than They Pay in
| The July 7, 2011, report of the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration provides summary data from IRS tax returns that show illegal immigrants collected far more in dollars from the IRS than they paid in federal income taxes for each year in the period of 2005-2010, the total six-year net benefit amounting to about $7.3 billion. Read more... |
A Bleak Employment Picture for the Young
| Download a pdf of this Memorandum Steven A. Camarota is the Director of Research at the Center for Immigration Studies. Read more... |
Panel Video: Our Borders a Decade after 9/11
| Related Publications: Memorandum, Panel Transcript, Topic Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner's Introduction and Statement Question and Answer statement with Rep. Sensenbrenner Read more... |
Panel Transcript: Our Borders a Decade After 9/11
| Related Publications: Memorandum, Panel Video, Topic Moderator: Mark Krikorian, Executive Director, Center for Immigration Studies Panelists: Representative Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI), Chairman of the Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security Subcommittee, House Committee on the Judiciary Janice Kephart, Director of National Security Policy, Center for Immigration Studies Read more... |
The Case for State and Local Immigration Enforcement
| The Case for State and Local Immigration Enforcement Testimony Prepared for the Pennsylvania Legislature August 31, 2011 by Steven A. Camarota, Ph.D. Director of Research Center for Immigration Studies 1522 K St. NW, Suite 820 Washington, DC 20005 (202) 4668185 fax: (202) 4668076 sac@cis.org www.cis.org Read more... |
Perry’s Ambiguous Employment Record
| National Review Online, September 22, 2011 Texas governor Rick Perry has pointed to job growth in Texas during the current economic downturn as one of his main accomplishments. But in a new report for the Center for Immigration Studies, based on data collected monthly by the Census Bureau, we found that newly arrived immigrants (legal and illegal) have been the primary beneficiaries of this growth between 2007 and 2011, not native-born workers. Read more... |
Opposing view: Amnesties reward lawbreaking
| USA Today, September 27, 2011 Gov. Rick Perry's foray into compassionate conservatism — his assertion that critics of in-state tuition subsidies don't "have a heart" — has shed light on the fact that too much of the immigration debate is based on weepy sentimentality. We need to move beyond Oprah-fied storytelling about your grandma from Minsk and instead focus on reality, with all its trade-offs and competing values. Read more... |
The Grim World of Some J-1 Teachers
| Download a copy of this Memorandum David North is a CIS fellow who has studied the interaction of immigration and U.S. labor markets for more than 30 years. An examination of six U.S. Tax Court decisions offers a revealing look at the inner workings and results of the program to import teachers from abroad on J-1 “cultural exchange” visas. Read more... |
Upcoming Panel: Representative, Sheriffs, CIS Analyst Discuss Crime Challenges from Illegal Immigration
| Washington (October 5, 2011) – The southwest border is a dangerous place and border county sheriffs play a big role in stemming illegal crossings and confronting cross-border criminal activity. But many illegal crossers manage to evade capture allowing them to commit crimes anywhere else in the country within a short time period. Read more... |
Defining Good Policy
| The New York Times, October 4, 2011 The very idea that the United States Constitution prohibits Alabama's new requirement to record the legal status of enrolling students is laughable. Read more... |
Which Way, New York?
| Download a pdf of this Memorandum W.D. Reasoner (a pseudonym) is a retired government employee with many years of experience in immigration administration, law enforcement, and national security matters. Read more... |
Educating an Underclass
| Download a pdf of this Memorandum Review of Learning a New Land: Immigrant Students in American Society, by Carola Suarez-Orozco, Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco, and Irina Todorova, Harvard University Press, September 2010 John Wahala is the Assistant Director of the Center for Immigration Studies. Read more... |
Amnesty by Any Means
| Download a pdf of this Memorandum Janice Kephart is the Director of National Security Policy at the Center for Immigration Studies. Introduction Read more... |
Panel Video: Crime Challenges from Illegal Immigration
| Related Publications: Transcript The Center for Immigration Studies and the House Immigration Reform Caucus held a panel discussion on October 12 featuring sheriffs from different parts of the country, each of whom is dealing with crime problems that result from our failure to control the border and from lax enforcement of immigration laws. Jessica Vaughan's Introduction of Speakers and Topic Read more... |
Panel Transcript: Crime Challenges from Illegal Immigration
| Related Publications: Video Moderator: Jessica Vaughan, Director of Policy Studies, Center for Immigration Studies Speakers: Representative Steve King (R-IA), Vice Chairman, Immigration Subcommittee, U.S. House of Representatives Sam Page, Sheriff, Rockingham County, North Carolina Steve Henry, Chief Deputy Sheriff, Pinal County, Arizona Dan Altena, Sheriff, Sioux County, Iowa Transcript by Read more... |
The Case Against Making Immigration Easier for Special Immigrant Juveniles
| I make these comments on behalf of the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), a nonpartisan think tank in Washington, D.C., dedicated to the study of the impact of immigration on American life. I am a fellow at CIS and have spent the last 30 years studying various aspects of American immigration policy for government agencies, federal and local, and for various foundations, such as Ford and Sloan and the German Marshall Fund of the United States. Read more... |