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Illegal aliens find a new BFF in President Obama
| FoxNews.com, February 21, 2012 Mark Krikorian is executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies. There's good news and bad news on the immigration front. The good news is that there are 1 million fewer illegal aliens than in 2007. The bad news is that the decline in the illegal population stopped when Barack Obama was inaugurated. Read more... |
Secure Communities by the Numbers, Revisited (Part 2 of 3)
| Download a pdf of this Memorandum Read Part 1 Read Part 3 Jessica M. Vaughan is Director of Policy Studies at CIS. 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... |
Hearing on The Scott Gardner Act
| Hearing on The Scott Gardner Act: Detention of Illegal Aliens Arrested for Drunk Driving U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement Washington, DC March 7, 2012 Statement of Jessica M. Vaughan Director of Policy Studies Center for Immigration Studies Read more... |
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Brushbacks, Proxies, and Connecting the Dots
| There seems to be a disconnect in the administration’s thinking — an inability to fundamentally “connect the dots” in the way intended by the 9/11 Commission and to acknowledge, or even understand, that U.S. immigration policies have the capability to substantially strengthen, or to significantly undermine, our national security. Read more... |
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An Unintended Trifecta
| Download a pdf 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. There’s a part of our dysfunctional immigration system that simultaneously: Denies U.S. workers jobs, Holds thousands of alien workers in virtual indentured servant status, for years, and then Read more... |
Panel Video: The Summer Work Travel Program
| Related Publications: Report, Panel Transcript The Center for Immigration Studies held a panel discussion on the report series, "Cheap Labor as Cultural Exchange: The $100 Million Work Travel Industry". The discussion was held on Tuesday, March 13, 2012 at 9 a.m. in the Murrow Room at the National Press Club. Read more... |
Visas for Sale
| The National Interest, March 22, 2012 One of the least attractive elements within the troubled U.S. immigration system deals with immigrant investors. It is an unsuccessful, squalid little program. But the Obama administration loves it and is trying hard to sell it to the world. Read more... |
‘Can We Come In Now?’
| National Review Online, March 29, 2012 Perceptions matter in politics. This is a banal observation, to be sure, but one that hit home for me on a recent tour of the Arizona border. Last month, I went along on a safari for friends and supporters of the Center for Immigration Studies, starting in Yuma and heading east almost to Nogales. A straight line between the two points would measure about 300 miles, though we covered close to 1,000 miles in our various wanderings. Read more... |
Holiday on ICE
| Holiday on ICE: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's New Immigration Detention Standards U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement Washington, DC March 28, 2012 Statement of Jessica M. Vaughan Director of Policy Studies Center for Immigration Studies Read more... |
The Alleged Costs of Ending Universal Birthright Citizenship
| Dowload a pdf of this Memorandum Jon Feere is the Legal Policy Analyst at the Center for Immigration Studies. Read more... |
Document Fraud in Employment Authorization
| A hearing before the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement Washington, DC April 18, 2012 Statement of Ronald W. Mortensen Fellow Center for Immigration Studies Read more... |
Flushing Out the Extremes on Immigration
| National Review Online, April 20, 2011 Read more... |
Obama Administration Doesn't Want to Enforce the Immigration Laws
| Vote for Jon Feere's Op-ed at US News and World Report, April 23, 2012 Read more... |
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So, Is Mexican Immigration Over?
| National Review Online, April 25, 2012 Read more... |
Swiss No More
| National Review Online, May 11, 2012 Michele Bachmann has renounced her Swiss citizenship, as was inevitable. Her mistake was innocent, and the matter is closed. Read more... |
Public wants to enforce U.S. sovereignty
| Philadelphia Inquirer, May 7, 2012 Read more... |
Can Dual Citizens Be Good Americans?
| The New York Times, May 14, 2012 The citizenship oath for immigrants is unequivocal: "I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen." Read more... |
S.B. 1070 Goes Before the Supreme Court
| Download a pdf of this Memorandum Jon Feere is the Legal Policy Analyst at the Center for Immigration Studies. Read more... |
H.R. 3039, The Welcoming Business Travelers and Tourists to America Act of 2011
| Hearing Before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement "H.R. 3039, The Welcoming Business Travelers and Tourists to America Act of 2011", May 17, 2012 Testimony of Janice L. Kephart, Former Counsel, 9/11 Commission and National Security Policy Director, Center for Immigration Studies Introduction Read more... |
Evaluating the Role of Immigration in U.S. Population Projections
| Presented at the Population Association of American Annual Meeting, May 2012, San Francisco Abstract Read more... |
Secure Communities by the Numbers, Revisited (Part 3 of 3)
| This is the third and final installment examining the outcomes of ICE's Secure Communities program and how those outcomes have been misleadingly described by the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy at the University of California. This report focuses on allegations of what the Warren Institute authors call, "a lack of due process for the individuals identified for removal by Secure Communities." Read more... |
Transcript: 2012 Katz Award Ceremony
| Transcript of the Center for Immigration Studies' "2012 Eugene Katz Award for Excellence in the Coverage of Immigration" ceremony. Sarah Ryley of the Daily accepted the award. Read more... |
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Video: 2012 Katz Award Ceremony
| The Eugene Katz Award For Excellence in the Coverage of Immigration was inaugurated in 1997 by the Center for Immigration Studies to promote informed and fair reporting on this contentious and complicated issue. Read more... |
Reporter Wins Immigration Journalism Award
| Sarah Ryley, a writer at The Daily, is the recipient of the 2012 Eugene Katz Award for Excellence in the Coverage of Immigration. The award, presented annually by the Center for Immigration Studies, is intended to highlight good reporting in a field where so much of the coverage is formulaic and mawkish. Read more... |
The Open Door
| Related Publications: Video, Panel Transcript Table of Contents Introduction Purpose of Report Persons and Terrorist Plots Included in the Study Almost Every Type of Immigration Has Been Exploited by Terrorists Weaknesses in the Immigration System Policy Recommendations Conclusion Read more... |
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