Immigration Blog

The concept of "pathological altruism" can help explain much of the political debate surrounding immigration.

On Thursday, September 13, the Mexican government addressed headlines regarding a U.S. proposal to allocate resources to Mexico for the repatriation of third-country nationals.

A column in the Wall Street Journal this week underscored how important immigration enforcement is as an issue in the most critical races for the House of Representatives.

There is no entity named the "National Association to Help Individual Citizens Hoodwinked by Individual Aliens" (NAHICHIA), and there probably will never be one, but we at the Center often hear from the injured citizens hurt by individual aliens and, sadly, there is usually little that we can do to help.

The immigration lawyers' advocacy group has issued a report claiming almost all illegal-immigrant families seeking asylum show up for their hearings, making their detention unnecessary. But the statistical heart of the study just doesn't stand up to scrutiny on a number of levels.

The House Judiciary Committee yesterday approved the "Injunctive Authority Clarification Act of 2018" (H.R. 6730)

Yesterday I discussed a notice of proposed rulemaking "Apprehension, Processing, Care, and Custody of Alien Minors and Unaccompanied Alien Children". If adopted, the regulations would make it easier for DHS to maintain custody of family units, that is, parents or guardians entering illegally with children. The most recent border apprehension statistics show why that rule is so necessary.

The 2018 fiscal year is not over for another month, but apprehensions at the southwest border have already eclipsed the number seen in FY 2017.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released the August numbers in the "Southwest Border Migration FY 2018" report. The report counts the number of individuals caught attempting to illegally enter the United States from Mexico, and is widely used as a tool measuring illegal inflows into the country.

According to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), as of July 2018, U.S. immigration courts had a pending caseload of 746,049 cases. The Department of Justice (DOJ) is taking steps to lower the number of pending cases by hiring a massive number of new immigration judges.

The anti-borders think tank recently published a report claiming that ICE targets U.S. citizens for deportation. The reality is different.