SCOTUS Rulings Bolster the Integrity of the Immigration System

The Supreme Court today issued two significant immigration decisions, siding with the Trump administration in cases involving asylum processing at the border and Temporary Protected Status (TPS), while earlier this week also clarifying the authority of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers to parole returning green card holders facing criminal charges.

Court Correctly Rules: Only Congress Can Fix the Broken Asylum and Removal Laws that Congress Created

Two new analyses by Center for Immigration Studies Senior Legal Fellow George Fishman conclude that a recent court ruling correctly reaffirms a fundamental constitutional principle: Congress, not the executive branch, writes the nation's immigration laws.

Welfare Use by Non-Citizens Across States in the U.S.

This new report finds that households headed by non-citizens access means-tested welfare programs at substantially higher rates than households headed by U.S.-born Americans in virtually every state.

Immigration Newsmaker: A Conversation with Rodney Scott

Interview with the head of America’s largest law enforcement agency

Rodney Scott, Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, joined Center Executive Director Mark Krikorian for an in-depth conversation on the challenges facing CBP and the administration’s broader enforcement strategy.

Hearing on ‘Abuses of U.S. Immigration Policies and Resulting Impacts on Americans’

Before the Task Force on Defending Constitutional Rights and Exposing Institutional Abuses, Of the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform 

There are steps Congress can take to help fight fraud, but when something this valuable is on offer – residence in the United States – there will always be some who seek to break the rules to get it.

SCOTUS Bolsters Immigration System Integrity
SCOTUS Bolsters Immigration System Integrity
Only Congress Can Fix What Congress Created
Only Congress Can Fix What Congress Created
Welfare Use by Non-Citizens
Welfare Use by Non-Citizens
A Conversation with Rodney Scott
A Conversation with Rodney Scott
Hearing on Abuses of Immigration Policies
Hearing on Abuses of Immigration Policies

The Supreme Court today issued two significant immigration decisions, siding with the Trump administration in cases involving asylum processing at the border and Temporary Protected Status (TPS), while earlier this week also clarifying the authority of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers to parole returning green card holders facing criminal charges.

Two new analyses by Center for Immigration Studies Senior Legal Fellow George Fishman conclude that a recent court ruling correctly reaffirms a fundamental constitutional principle: Congress, not the executive branch, writes the nation's immigration laws.

This new report finds that households headed by non-citizens access means-tested welfare programs at substantially higher rates than households headed by U.S.-born Americans in virtually every state.

Interview with the head of America’s largest law enforcement agency

Rodney Scott, Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, joined Center Executive Director Mark Krikorian for an in-depth conversation on the challenges facing CBP and the administration’s broader enforcement strategy.

Before the Task Force on Defending Constitutional Rights and Exposing Institutional Abuses, Of the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform 

There are steps Congress can take to help fight fraud, but when something this valuable is on offer – residence in the United States – there will always be some who seek to break the rules to get it.

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SCOTUS Allows the Trump Administration to Remedy Past Abuses of Temporary Protected Status

But it’s a double-edged sword that could facilitate future abuses

This ruling will facilitate the Trump administration’s efforts to terminate abusive TPS extensions by prior administrations. But it is a double-edged sword, for it will also facilitate future administrations’ ability to pursue abusive TPS extensions. Only Congress has the ability to fundamentally reform or terminate the TPS statute.

Two SCOTUS Victories: One for Trump on TPS, the Other for the English Language on Asylum

The ‘TPS case’ and the ‘asylum entry case’ are in; only the ‘birthright citizenship case’ remains

The element that ties these two cases together is simple: Congress meant what it said in the INA, whether it’s the point (or more precisely the place) a foreign national becomes an “alien” eligible to apply for asylum, or the authority of the judicial branch to review executive-branch decisions.

Federal Judge Vacates Biden Administration ‘Quiet Amnesty’ Rule

The average time a removal case is ‘administratively closed’ is 18 years, but the clock has now restarted on all of them

“Justice delayed is justice denied”. The average time an immigration court case is “administratively closed” is now more than 18 years, which is a lot of delayed justice to make up for. Expect additional challenges, but for now this lingering vestige of Biden’s “quiet amnesty” is itself closed.

SCOTUS: CBP Can Stop Green Card Holders with Pending Charges

High court rejects burdensome requirements on frontline border officers

The Supreme Court’s opinion is dispositive on one crucial issue: The INA doesn’t impose a burden on CBP officers at the ports, “entrusted with making quick judgments on the spot”, to find by clear and convincing evidence that green card holders returning to face criminal charges are seeking admission before paroling them. That’s an issue best left to the courts, and CBP has enough to do already.

Immigration Projections: Only as Good as the Assumptions Behind Them

Less than meets the eye in Yale think tank’s productivity forecast

A Yale think tank recently released a report titled “Lower Immigration Means Lower Productivity Growth”. It is based on the following logic: lower immigration means fewer working-age people; fewer working-age people means fewer potential entrepreneurs; fewer entrepreneurs means fewer new firms; and fewer new firms means lower productivity. But each link in the chain depends on assumptions that are far more contestable than the report implies.