The Foreign-Born Share and Number at Record Highs in February 2024

A look at the size and growth of the immigrant population in the United States

Analysis of the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey (CPS) shows that the total foreign-born or immigrant population (legal and illegal) hit a new record high of 51.4 million in February 2024 — an increase of 6.4 million since President Biden took office.

The Policy Decisions Embedded in the New USCIS Fee Schedule

A new report finds that the Biden administration plans to make employers seeking foreign workers bear the cost of the border crisis. The report teases out this and other conclusions from a new U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) fee schedule set to take effect on April 1, 2024.

Government Admission: Biden Parole Flights Create Security ‘Vulnerabilities’ at U.S. Airports

CIS’s litigation has yielded a novel and newsworthy answer from the government: The public can’t know the receiving airports because those hundreds of thousands of CBP-authorized arrivals have created such “operational vulnerabilities” at airports.

Read Also: Parolees Paroling In More Parolees

UN Budgets Millions for U.S.-Bound Migrants in 2024

A United Nations-led “Regional Refugee and Migrant Response Plan (RMRP)” calls for more than 200 nonprofit groups to dole out $1.6 billion in cash debit cards, food, clothing, medical treatment, shelter, and even “humanitarian transportation” during 2024 to millions of U.S.-bound immigrants in 17 Latin American nations and Mexico.

Read also: Biden Admin. Sends Millions to Religious Nonprofits Facilitating Mass Illegal Migration

The Foreign-Born Share and Number at Record Highs
The Foreign-Born Share and Number at Record Highs
The New USCIS Fee Schedule
The New USCIS Fee Schedule
Preventing a Haitian Migration Crisis
Preventing a Haitian Migration Crisis
Biden Parole Flights Create Security ‘Vulnerabilities’
Biden Parole Flights Create Security ‘Vulnerabilities’
UN Budgets Millions for Migrants
UN Budgets Millions for Migrants

A look at the size and growth of the immigrant population in the United States

Analysis of the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey (CPS) shows that the total foreign-born or immigrant population (legal and illegal) hit a new record high of 51.4 million in February 2024 — an increase of 6.4 million since President Biden took office.

A new report finds that the Biden administration plans to make employers seeking foreign workers bear the cost of the border crisis. The report teases out this and other conclusions from a new U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) fee schedule set to take effect on April 1, 2024.

CIS’s litigation has yielded a novel and newsworthy answer from the government: The public can’t know the receiving airports because those hundreds of thousands of CBP-authorized arrivals have created such “operational vulnerabilities” at airports.

Read Also: Parolees Paroling In More Parolees

A United Nations-led “Regional Refugee and Migrant Response Plan (RMRP)” calls for more than 200 nonprofit groups to dole out $1.6 billion in cash debit cards, food, clothing, medical treatment, shelter, and even “humanitarian transportation” during 2024 to millions of U.S.-bound immigrants in 17 Latin American nations and Mexico.

Read also: Biden Admin. Sends Millions to Religious Nonprofits Facilitating Mass Illegal Migration

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Fifth Circuit Refuses to Stay Injunction of Texas Border Law

‘The scalpel of as-applied relief in a future case as opposed to the machete of global invalidation’

For the time being, SB 4 is only theoretically a Texas state law that criminalizes illegal entries across the Rio Grande. Whether that remains true forever depends on litigation strategy and the willingness of federal judges to trust their colleagues on the Texas state-court bench.

Op-ed: It’s Time for an Immigration Moratorium

When President Biden took office, the foreign-born population in the United States stood at 45 million. By the end of 2023, that number had risen to a record 50.4 million. For years, as the absolute number of immigrants living in the U.S. hit all-time highs, advocates insisted that at least the foreign-born proportion of the country’s population was not unprecedented. Now it is. The figure of 15.2 percent foreign-born recorded in December eclipses the previous records set in 1890 and 1910.