‘Humanitarian’ Flights from Safe Countries & Vacation Spots

The departure country list casts serious doubt on whether the Biden administration has used the humanitarian rescue flights program as it was sold to the American public. In fact, the new departure country information shows that many migrants from these four nationalities have been heading to the U.S. from some of the safest, most prosperous nations on Earth.

Security Risk: The Unprecedented Surge in Chinese Illegal Immigration

House Homeland Security Committee, Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations and Accountability

In the three years since the president’s inauguration ending in March 2024, DHS’s alluring quick-release policies resulted in more than 50,000 Border Patrol encounters with Chinese nationals, at escalating monthly rates surpassing 4,500 and reaching nearly 6,000 during calendar year 2024. 

Foreign-Born Population Grew by 5.1 Million in the Last Two Years

The foreign-born or immigrant population (legal and illegal) hit new record highs in March 2024 of 51.6 million and 15.6 percent of the total U.S. population. Since March 2022 the foreign-born population has increased 5.1 million, the largest two-year increase in American history.

Panel: The How and Why of the Mayorkas Impeachment

Featuring Rep. Mark Green, Chairman of House Homeland Security Committee

The Center for Immigration Studies hosted a panel to discuss the history and impact of the impeachment of Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas. Should he have been impeached? Why was he impeached? What are the consequences of the U.S. Senate’s refusal to either hold a trial itself or to appoint an impeachment trial committee to take and consider evidence?

The UN’s Palestinian Refugee Agency

Funded and Advised by the State Department’s Refugee and Migration Bureau

The issue of Palestinian refugees is important, not just in the obvious foreign policy sense, but also to U.S. migration and refugee policy. This report offers an overview of UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees’ history, financing, staff, and institutional culture.

Read more: Opening the Door to Palestinian Refugees from Gaza?

‘Humanitarian’ Flights from Vacation Spots
‘Humanitarian’ Flights from Vacation Spots
The Surge in Chinese Illegal Immigration
The Surge in Chinese Illegal Immigration
New Record Highs for Foreign-Born
New Record Highs for Foreign-Born
Panel: The Mayorkas Impeachment
Panel: The Mayorkas Impeachment
The UN’s Palestinian Refugee Agency
The UN’s Palestinian Refugee Agency

The departure country list casts serious doubt on whether the Biden administration has used the humanitarian rescue flights program as it was sold to the American public. In fact, the new departure country information shows that many migrants from these four nationalities have been heading to the U.S. from some of the safest, most prosperous nations on Earth.

House Homeland Security Committee, Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations and Accountability

In the three years since the president’s inauguration ending in March 2024, DHS’s alluring quick-release policies resulted in more than 50,000 Border Patrol encounters with Chinese nationals, at escalating monthly rates surpassing 4,500 and reaching nearly 6,000 during calendar year 2024. 

The foreign-born or immigrant population (legal and illegal) hit new record highs in March 2024 of 51.6 million and 15.6 percent of the total U.S. population. Since March 2022 the foreign-born population has increased 5.1 million, the largest two-year increase in American history.

Featuring Rep. Mark Green, Chairman of House Homeland Security Committee

The Center for Immigration Studies hosted a panel to discuss the history and impact of the impeachment of Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas. Should he have been impeached? Why was he impeached? What are the consequences of the U.S. Senate’s refusal to either hold a trial itself or to appoint an impeachment trial committee to take and consider evidence?

Funded and Advised by the State Department’s Refugee and Migration Bureau

The issue of Palestinian refugees is important, not just in the obvious foreign policy sense, but also to U.S. migration and refugee policy. This report offers an overview of UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees’ history, financing, staff, and institutional culture.

Read more: Opening the Door to Palestinian Refugees from Gaza?

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Debate Questions for the Candidates

By CIS on June 26, 2024
The topic of immigration is extraordinarily broad, making it challenging to speculate what will be asked. However, the Center's subject matter experts have offered several questions that should be asked.
Topics: Politics

ICE Reportedly Searching for 50 Migrants Smuggled by ‘ISIS-Affiliated Human Smuggling Network’

Meanwhile, DHS watchdog warns department ‘will remain at risk of admitting dangerous persons into the country’

ICE is frantically searching for dozens of illegal migrants from Central Asia and elsewhere who were smuggled into the United States by an ISIS-affiliated human smuggling network. This comes on the heels of a report by the DHS watchdog warning that the agency's vetting system is flawed.

Polls: Biden Is Turning Voters Against Immigration

‘No president in a century has done more to damage the cause of legal immigration than Joe Biden’; the lasting wisdom of Barbara Jordan

The progressive advocates crafting the president’s migrant policies and their supporters in the media deliberately conflate legal and illegal immigration as they press for more of each. Unwittingly, they’re souring Americans on the very concept of immigration.