This report provides new analysis of the DHS annual Entry/Exit Data Overstay Report, which identified over 700,000 overstayers in 2017, a decline of about five percent from 2016. The analysis shows that certain categories of visitors, particularly student and exchange visitors and guestworkers, have especially high overstay rates.
Representative Lamar Smith (R-Texas) was featured in an Immigration Newsmaker conversation hosted by the Center for Immigration Studies on September 5 at the National Press Club.
A detailed look at immigrants (legal and illegal) and natives across occupations
This report provides new analysis refuting the myth that there are jobs that Americans simply won't do. The report analyzes the 474 separate occupations defined by the Department of Commerce and finds that there are none completely dominated by immigrants (legal or illegal) and none in which illegal immigrants constitute the majority of the workforce.
Francis Cissna, Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), was featured in an Immigration Newsmaker conversation hosted by the Center for Immigration Studies on August 15 at the National Press Club.
The national security gap in America’s immigration enforcement debate
This report examines the potential terrorist threat posed by the smuggling of special interest aliens (SIAs) – people coming from a country identified as having possible or established links to terrorism.
This report provides new analysis of the DHS annual Entry/Exit Data Overstay Report, which identified over 700,000 overstayers in 2017, a decline of about five percent from 2016. The analysis shows that certain categories of visitors, particularly student and exchange visitors and guestworkers, have especially high overstay rates.
Representative Lamar Smith (R-Texas) was featured in an Immigration Newsmaker conversation hosted by the Center for Immigration Studies on September 5 at the National Press Club.
A detailed look at immigrants (legal and illegal) and natives across occupations
This report provides new analysis refuting the myth that there are jobs that Americans simply won't do. The report analyzes the 474 separate occupations defined by the Department of Commerce and finds that there are none completely dominated by immigrants (legal or illegal) and none in which illegal immigrants constitute the majority of the workforce.
Francis Cissna, Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), was featured in an Immigration Newsmaker conversation hosted by the Center for Immigration Studies on August 15 at the National Press Club.
The national security gap in America’s immigration enforcement debate
This report examines the potential terrorist threat posed by the smuggling of special interest aliens (SIAs) – people coming from a country identified as having possible or established links to terrorism.
The vast majority of civil penalties in the immigration business are deportations and other removals of illegal aliens.
But sometimes citizens and green card holders receive civil penalties because of immigration-related violations. (These are all quite different from criminal penalties, as they often the results of plea agreements — and never involve jail time.)
Nearly a decade after the Center published hidden-camera footage of illicit border crossings, new videos published by the Daily Caller show things haven't changed.