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The Weaponization of Immigration
| Download the .pdf version Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history... . We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of Earth.1 I. Introduction Read more... |
WA Cancels Illegal Alien Journalist's Driver's License; Will ICE Investigate the Papers That Hired Him?
| The story of illegal alien fraudster and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas continues to unfold and he is finally beginning to feel the repercussions of his unlawful activity. Read more... |
Immigration Policies and Their Impact on Small Business
| May 10, 2007 Statement of Mark Krikorian Executive Director, Center for Immigration Studies Before the Small Business Committee U.S. House of Representatives Thank you for the opportunity to appear before this panel. There are many facets to the issue of immigration and small business, but perhaps the best place to start is with the opinions of small business owners themselves. Read more... |
Video: 2011 Katz Award Ceremony
| Related Publications: Booklet, Transcript EDITOR'S NOTE: Upon the National Geographic Television's request, Nicolas Stein's statements in the transcript and video have been redacted as a condition of his participation in this awards ceremony. Introduction by Mark Krikorian Leo W. Banks' Acceptance Speech Read more... |
Mormon Church Support for Immigration Reform — Naive or Mean-Spirited?
| Comments made by Dieter F. Uchtdorf, second counselor in the LDS (Mormon) Church's First Presidency, coupled with earlier public statements issued by the church on the subject of immigration reform, raise questions about whether Mormon leaders are exceptionally naive or simply mean-spirited and cruel. 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... |
ICE Detainees Released ARE Criminals
| Contrary to the claims of illegal alien advocacy groups, many of the detainees being released by ICE under the bogus pretext of sequestration-mandated budget cuts are in fact criminals, and hardly harmless, according to a variety of sources. Here are some categories of detainees who were released from ICE detention over the last week: Read more... |
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DREAM Act Will Shield Some Gang Members from Removal
| If Congress passes the version of the DREAM Act approved by the U.S. House last week, ICE will likely have to scale back its successful anti-gang program known as Operation Community Shield, because more than one-fourth of the potential targets could qualify for the amnesty. Read more... |
The Basic Right of Citizenship: A Comparative Study
| "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. United States Constitution, Amendment 14, section 1, clause 1 Read more... |
ICE Declines to Detain Known Illegal Alien Stopped for Driving on a Suspended License
| Immigration activist and former Washington Post reporter Jose Antonio Vargas, an illegal immigrant from the Philippines, was arrested on Friday in Minnesota during a traffic stop, but ICE refused to take custody of him. Vargas "came out" as an illegal immigrant in a piece he wrote for the New York Times Magazine last year in which he admitted to committing document fraud to try to conceal his illegal status in the United States. Read more... |
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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... |
Latino Voting in 2010
| This Backgrounder makes three straightforward points. First, gains for Republicans as the result of Latino support in the 2010 election were, at best, modest. The gains were more notable in some races than in others, but overall the results remained consistent with historical patterns, in spite of the impressive gains made by the GOP among other voters. Latino voters, like other voters, continue to be driven primarily by party identification when they cast their ballots. Swing voting is not dramatic, though inter-election fluctuations in enthusiasm and turnout are more notable. Read more... |
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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... |
Senate Bill Doubles Annual Flow of Guest Workers
| he Schumer-Rubio bill, which will be debated by the full Senate starting next week, would allow unprecedented increases in the number of temporary workers. A new Center for Immigration Studies analysis of the bill finds that, in the first year, the bill (S.744) would admit nearly 1.6 million more temporary workers than currently allowed. After that initial spike, the bill would increase annual temporary worker admissions by more than 600,000 each year over the current level – an increase four times larger than the one called for in the 2007 Bush-Kennedy proposal (about 125,000). Read more... |
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Immigration and Rising U.S. Fertility:
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NYC Immigration Judges Favor Aliens More Frequently
| An interesting item was published in the September 27 edition of Capital (a New York-based online publication), which in my view deserves a great deal more attention that it appears to be getting. According to the article, "While nearly two-thirds of deportation cases nationwide end in the target's removal from the country, the results in New York City have been starkly different. Here, 74 percent of deportation proceedings this year have ended with the immigrant being allowed to stay in the United States." Read more... |
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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... |
The Civil Rights Implications of Current State-Level Immigration Laws
| Statement of Mark Krikorian Before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights On the Civil Rights Implications of Current State-Level Immigration Laws Birmingham, Ala., August 17, 2012 Thank you for the invitation to speak to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Read more... |
Reflections from the Border
| Last month I had the opportunity to tour southern Arizona with a small group led by our own Jerry Kammer, who lived and wrote there for many years and whose passion for the region is contagious. Through his connections, we were given intimate perspectives on the border situation from those who face it on a daily basis. Read more... |
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Napolitano Offers Up Border Patrol and Detention for Sequestration
| DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano has announced that ICE detention capacity and Border Patrol salaries will be slashed in order to meet the requirements of the sequestration exercise. This move suggests that she views the nation's fiscal crisis as an opportunity and cover to accomplish the administration's immigration enforcement reduction agenda. Read more... |
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The Appearance of Security: REAL ID Final Regulations vs. PASS ID Act of 2009
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Panel Transcript: Immigration and the SPLC
| Related Publications: Backgrounder, Video Welcome and Moderator: Mark Krikorian, Executive Director, Center for Immigration Studies Speakers: Jerry Kammer, Senior Research Fellow, Center for Immigration Studies Ken Silverstein, Washington Editor, Harper’s Magazine Carol Swain, Professor of Law and Political Science, Vanderbilt University Thursday, March 18, 2010 National Press Club Washington, D.C. Transcript by Read more... |
The Hispanic Vote in 2010
| Before the 2010 election some commentators argued that the failure to address immigration would increase Hispanic turnout, while others argued it would cause them to stay home. New Census Bureau voting data show that neither of these predictions was correct. Hispanic turnout conformed to the pattern of recent mid-term elections. Read more... |
Another 50 Years of Mass Mexican Immigration: Mexican Government Report Projects Continued Flow Regardless of Economics or Birth Rates
| Download this Backgrounder as a pdf Mexico's National Population Council (CONAPO), an arm of the powerful Ministry of the Interior, issued a report in November 2001 on migration to the United States through 2030. Among its findings: Contrary to previous assurances, the Mexican government acknowledges in this report that falling birth rates and increased economic development in Mexico will not lead to a reduction in immigration to the United States for at least three decades. Read more... |
Virginia, Not ICE, Closes Suspect University of Northern Virginia
| The University of Northern Virginia (UNVA) — a very marginal institution that relied heavily on foreign students, notably those from India, and that was raided two years ago by Immigration and Customs Enforcement — was closed Wednesday, July 17, by the State of Virginia, not by ICE. As is all too often the case, an institution outside the immigration business has stepped in and done the work that should have been done by the Department of Homeland Security, as the Securities and Exchange Commission did recently in a $145 million immigrant investor (EB-5) fraud case I described in an earlier blog. Read more... |
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