Immigration Publications

A Conversation with Rodney Scott

Immigration Newsmaker: A Conversation with Rodney Scott

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

The Center for Immigration Studies invites you to attend an Immigration Newsmaker featuring Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Rodney Scott on Tuesday, June 9, 2026 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The event will be livestreamed.

USCIS Shift on Green Card Processing

USCIS Shift on Green Card Processing

The Center for Immigration Studies has released a series of analyses examining a recent USCIS memo emphasizing that adjustment of status - the process allowing certain aliens, either temporary visa holders or unlawfully present, who are eligible for permanent residence to obtain it without leaving the United States - is a discretionary benefit and not a guaranteed alternative to consular processing abroad.

Denaturalization and its Constitutional Limits

Denaturalization and its Constitutional Limits

George Fishman, Senior Legal Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution at a hearing titled “Protecting American Citizenship III: Denaturalization and its Constitutional Limits.”

Education Level of New Immigrants

Education Level of Newly Arrived Immigrants Has Declined

A new report finds that immigrants (both legal and illegal) who arrived during the period of the border surge are significantly less educated and have lower incomes than immigrants who arrived immediately preceding the surge. 

The decline in education of new immigrants overall primarily reflects the enormous increase in the share of newcomers who are from Latin America, many of whom are less educated and entered illegally. 

A Conversation with Andrew Veprek

Immigration Newsmaker: A Conversation with Andrew Veprek

Livestreamed interview with the head of the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration 

The Center for Immigration Studies held an Immigration Newsmaker event featuring Andrew Veprek, Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM). 

What is the State Department’s humanitarian bureau doing on migration policy — and what comes next?

A Conversation with Rodney Scott
A Conversation with Rodney Scott
USCIS Shift on Green Card Processing
USCIS Shift on Green Card Processing
Denaturalization and its Constitutional Limits
Denaturalization and its Constitutional Limits
Education Level of New Immigrants
Education Level of New Immigrants
A Conversation with Andrew Veprek
A Conversation with Andrew Veprek

Immigration Publications

Immigration Newsmaker: A Conversation with Rodney Scott

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

The Center for Immigration Studies invites you to attend an Immigration Newsmaker featuring Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Rodney Scott on Tuesday, June 9, 2026 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The event will be livestreamed.

USCIS Shift on Green Card Processing

The Center for Immigration Studies has released a series of analyses examining a recent USCIS memo emphasizing that adjustment of status - the process allowing certain aliens, either temporary visa holders or unlawfully present, who are eligible for permanent residence to obtain it without leaving the United States - is a discretionary benefit and not a guaranteed alternative to consular processing abroad.

Denaturalization and its Constitutional Limits

George Fishman, Senior Legal Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution at a hearing titled “Protecting American Citizenship III: Denaturalization and its Constitutional Limits.”

Education Level of Newly Arrived Immigrants Has Declined

A new report finds that immigrants (both legal and illegal) who arrived during the period of the border surge are significantly less educated and have lower incomes than immigrants who arrived immediately preceding the surge. 

The decline in education of new immigrants overall primarily reflects the enormous increase in the share of newcomers who are from Latin America, many of whom are less educated and entered illegally. 

Immigration Newsmaker: A Conversation with Andrew Veprek

Livestreamed interview with the head of the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration 

The Center for Immigration Studies held an Immigration Newsmaker event featuring Andrew Veprek, Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM). 

What is the State Department’s humanitarian bureau doing on migration policy — and what comes next?

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The Work Crisis and the Work Still to Be Done

Labor scarcity can force a society to notice the people it has become accustomed to ignoring. If employers cannot endlessly draw on imported labor, they may eventually have to rediscover the men already here. That process will be slow, uneven, and incomplete. But it is still better than using immigration as a band-aid for a wound we refuse to treat.
Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty, Unemployment/Underemployment Rates and Immigration

BIA: Consider Aliens’ Crimes, Not Just their Convictions, in Exercising the AG’s Discretion

A brief history of statutory largesse and statutory complexities

In Matter of Mills, the Board of Immigration Appeals (1) sets limits on how the attorney general’s discretion should be applied and (2) clarifies that in granting discretionary relief to criminal aliens, IJs should not only consider what criminal aliens were convicted of, but what they actually did.
Topics: Immigration Courts, Criminal Aliens

BIA: Illegal Alien Adult with Pending ‘Special Immigrant Juvenile’ Claim Is Subject to Detention

Program intended to protect migrant kids is now increasingly being accessed by grown-ups — including criminals

Trump II is attempting to mitigate what it terms as “vulnerabilities in the integrity of the SIJ program”, including use of the special immigrant juvenile process by adult aliens seeking release from custody and indefinite unlawful stays in the United States. For now, the BIA is staying out of the administration’s way as it works to achieve that goal. We’ll see whether Article III courts do the same.
Topics: Illegal Immigration

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