Center for Immigration Studies

Video: An Overwhelmed Border Patrol Is Missing an Epidemic of Runners and ‘Got-aways’

Todd Bensman, the Center’s senior national security fellow, joins agents in New Mexico for a nighttime search for illegal migrants and warns of the got-away trends. Got-aways are unlawful border-crossers who are “directly or indirectly observed making an unlawful entry into the United States”, but who are not apprehended. Since the inauguration of President Biden, more than 1.5 million illegal migrants have been detected entering the country illegally, but have successfully evaded agents.

Less-Educated U.S.-Born Workers Do Better When Immigration Is Lower

Trends in median weekly earnings for immigrants and the native-born, 2012 to 2022

This analysis shows that real (inflation-adjusted) median weekly earnings for U.S.-born workers without a bachelor’s degree increased more quickly during the period of lower legal and illegal immigration from 2016 to 2019 than in the earlier and later periods, which experienced higher immigration.

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SCOOP: Three Illegal Aliens in Maryland Criminal Cases Entered as Unaccompanied Alien Children

Sources have revealed to the Center that three unaccompanied alien children (UACs) are among the six illegal aliens recently identified by the Frederick County (Md.) Sheriff’s Office in connection to the murder of a high school student and a separate case involving attempted murder and assault. Two of these UACs are MS-13 gang members.

Topics: Criminal Aliens, 287(g) Program

Fortune Magazine Promotes Bizarre H-1B Scheme — Pay Cities for Visas

Fortune Magazine, the sleek house organ of big, big business and once the flagship of Luce Publications, has printed an op-ed suggesting that employers wanting more H-1B workers should pay cities to receive H-1B visas. This is the rough equivalent of turning over the Department of Defense to county sheriffs and putting foreign policy into the hands of governors — it is rank nonsense.

Topics: H-1B Nonimmigrant Visa Progam

Something’s Screwy with Immigration Court Border Cases

Asylum grants are down — but so are denials

The immigration courts are a component of the Department of Justice (DOJ), and a review of DOJ statistics on decision filing rates in border asylum cases reveals that something screwy is going on — asylum grants are down, but so are asylum denials, while the percentage of “other” determinations are way up. What gives?

Topics: Biden Border Crisis, Immigration Courts

Thousands of Chinese spy balloons are hovering over American universities

In the 2019/20 academic year, Chinese numbered 372,532, more than one-third of the entire foreign student population. Because of COVID, the number dropped to 290,086 in 2021/22, still representing almost one-third of all foreign students.

Topics: Foreign Students, National Security

Biden Border Approval Reaches New Low in Latest Polling

But congressional Republicans are struggling to make their case to the American people

The latest Fox News post-Title 42 polling is out, and it contains bad news for the president: Approval of his border policies has reached a new low. That said, the poll also shows congressional Republicans are struggling to make their border-security case to the American people and are thus at risk of blowing one of their best arguments against a second Biden term.

Topics: Biden Border Crisis, Polls and Surveys

Muslim Africans' Harrowing Journey to Israel

Muslim Africans nearly all reached the Jewish state by land. The influx began in 2006, apparently due to some Egyptian smugglers helping a few hundred Africans to enter Israel and the Israeli government treating them leniently. As word got back to Egypt and more distant parts of the continent, larger numbers followed.

Topics: Immigration in Foreign Countries