A ‘Private’ Sponsorship Program for Refugees

The Welcome Corps initiative, billed as a private sponsorship program for refugees, hands over the control of most of the resettlement process to refugee advocates in the United States and allows them to select their own refugees, who are future American citizens. Far from being purely privately funded, U.S. taxpayer funds will be used to resettle refugees through this program.

Porous borders and lax enforcement of immigration laws in the U.S. interior have led to an explosion in child labor at worksites across the nation. This troubling development is the result of policy choices made by the Biden administration and Congress. This report details controversial and dangerous policies that must be addressed by the new Congress.

Streamed panel discussed how national security threats have slipped between the cracks

The Center unveiled a new database of national security vetting failures at a panel discussion. 

View the National Vetting Failures Database.

In 1986, the IRCA made it unlawful for employers to knowingly hire and employ illegal aliens. While different administrations have devoted various degrees of effort to enforcing employer sanctions and levying civil fines, employers have generally adapted to these fines, and it is often difficult to prove that employers knowingly hired illegal aliens. George Fishman, the Center's senior legal fellow, provides recommendations to Congress to turn off the jobs magnet for illegal immigration. 

Chuck Holton has spent two decades reporting on wars and disasters in more than 100 countries. He has 10 books in print and lives in Panama.

A spike in the number of Haitian migrants has been seen as hundreds are arriving in the Florida Keys each week, making the perilous, 600-mile crossing on insanely overcrowded boats and further straining the ability of the U.S. Coast Guard to do its real job — interdicting drug traffickers in the Caribbean.