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European Multiculturalism's Lessons for the U.S.: Double Standards
| The crumbling of the heretofore-taboo subject of the impact of multiculturalism on immigrant assimilation opens up a critical question for debate. That question is premised on the reality that immigration into the western democracies from all parts of the world will continue to be a fact that these governments must address. The question is how best to do so. Read more... |
A Cloud No Larger than a Man's Hand at the Southern Border
| At the moment the cloud at the southern border is no larger than a man's hand, but it has prospects for seriously complicating the nation's immigration control programs. Observers have long known that if there were a massive number of asylum applications by Mexican nationals, legal and illegal, the entire immigration apparatus would be seriously challenged, if not totally swamped. Read more... |
It's The Metrics, Stupid!
| This just in from our You-Can-Have-Your-Cake-and-Eat-It-Too Department. Very recently, the RAND Corporation examined border effectiveness metrics. The following nugget can be found in Chapter One of the report, entitled "Measuring Illegal Border Crossing Between Ports of Entry: An Assessment of Four Promising Methods": Read more... |
Restore Our Border: A year after Arizona rancher Rob Krentz’s murder, it’s time to implement a blueprint for border control
| National Review Online, March 28, 2011 Yesterday marked the first anniversary of the murder of Arizona rancher Rob Krentz by an illegal alien. His death was especially shocking because Krentz had no involvement with the illicit traffic across our border with Mexico — previously, the violence had been almost completely confined to, for instance, illegal aliens held for ransom by their smugglers, or drug dealers fighting over their contraband, or law-enforcement officers upholding the laws of the United States. Read more... |
The Mormon Church and Illegal Immigration
| Download a pdf of this Backgrounder Ronald W. Mortensen, PhD, is a retired career U.S. Foreign Service Officer and member of the LDS Church. Read more... |
Agents Speak Out Against 'No Apprehension' Policy
| In a strange confluence of news surrounding the activities of the Border Patrol, the agents are speaking out quite loudly – through the conduit of local law enforcement that has repeatedly challenged Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano's claims that the "border is as secure as it has ever been." Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever and Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu made news that agents in the field are back-channeling complaints to the two sh Read more... |
Misrepresentation in the Coverage Claimed for Secure Communities
| Secure Communities (SC) is a sound program that helps protect the law abiding from the effects of crimes committed by aliens. It's a shame that U.S. Immigration and Customs (ICE) has made such a muddle of explaining to ordinary Americans what the initiative is and how it works. Worse, they have done the program real harm with a constant stream of misinformation and disinformation put out on a near-daily basis. Nowhere is this more true than in their manipulation of statistics. In a nutshell, ICE: Read more... |
Morning News, 6/9/11
| Please visit our YouTube, Twitter and Facebook pages. 1. New effort to protect immigrants 2. Judge won't dismiss claims 3. Report: skill level shift 4. Latino grocers worry 5. Group files suit in GA Read more... |
You Can Tell the Feds How to Change Our Immigration Policy
| There is an often overlooked opportunity for individual citizens to give advice to the government about specific parts of the nation's immigration policy, and I want to encourage (and help) the reader to participate. Frequently various agencies of the executive branch ask for public comments on proposed regulations, fee levels, form changes, and information collection systems; you can be sure that big business and other big pro-mass-immigration groups are well aware of these requests, and respond regularly. Read more... |
Birthright Citizenship for Children of Foreign Diplomats?
| Related: TV Interview Download a pdf of this Backgrounder PART II: "Why the Citizenship Clause Should Be Taken More Seriously" Jon Feere is the Legal Policy Analyst at the Center for Immigration Studies. Read more... |
Morning News, 7/12/11
| 1. ATF to require gun buyer info 2. Mexican repatriation flights 3. Asylum fraud industry thrives 4. Immigrants leaving AL 5. Advocate urges All-Stars Read more... |
USCIS Hails More Permissive Handling of EB-5 Alien Investor Program
| Apparently nothing frustrates USCIS more than an underutilized visa program, such as the one that allows a well-to-do-investor's family to get a collection of green cards by – briefly – investing half a million dollars in the U.S. So, the agency has announced its efforts to expand that program. Read more... |
Morning News, 8/3/11
| 1. Bill targets ultralight smuggling 2. Rep. releases video honoring slain agent 3. Illegal re-entry tops all federal charges 4. Ruling over PA town's immigration law vacated 5. Illegal aliens decline in some CA counties Read more... |
Remarks of Jessica M. Vaughan before the Homeland Security Advisory Council’s Task Force on Secure Communities
| Homeland Security Advisory Council’s Task Force on Secure Communities Remarks of Jessica M. Vaughan Director of Policy Studies Center for Immigration Studies August 4, 2011 Thank you for the opportunity to present observations on the Secure Communities Program (SC) and its effects on public safety and community policing, with specific attention to the issue of how to deal with foreign nationals identified as a result of traffic offenses. Read more... |
Morning News, 8/15/11
| 1. Audits make illegals' lives more difficult 2. BP agents check status on buses, trains 3. Rep. club books AZ sheriff as speaker 4. Microsoft lobbied on immigration issues 5. Illegal alien accused of murder Read more... |
Even Armed Robbers Shouldn't Be Deported?
| Apparently, it is incorrect to assume that the open-border crowd supports the deportation of even so-called "high priority" illegal aliens. Amid the debate over which aliens should constitute a high priority for deportation under the Obama amnesty, and which should be permitted to stay and given more opportunities to cause crime before becoming a priority, amnesty advocates have begun to question the deportation even of aliens convicted of violent crimes. Read more... |
USCIS Devotes Much Staff Time to Abused Alien Step-Parents of Citizens
| Here's the (admittedly odd) scenario: 1. An American citizen takes a trip overseas to beat up or otherwise abuse his alien step-parent or step-parents, or maybe his alien biological parent or parents. (Let's call it a totally regrettable and very, very specialized form of tourism.) 2. The abused alien step-parent or parent survives the abuse and then consults a U.S. immigration lawyer, and learns that because of the abuse, or maybe alleged abuse, the abusee, if that is a word, can file for immigration to the United States and receive a quick (but lifelong) green card as an "immediate relative of a U.S. citizen." Read more... |
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... |