Progress Report: Has Panama Closed the Notorious ‘Darien Gap’ Mass Migration Route to the U.S. Border as Promised?

An early Center for Immigration Studies assessment from the field

Panama was unable to ramp up substantial air or ground expulsions because the United States did not follow through with seemingly promised financial support Panama thought necessary for repatriation flights to be effective.

Read also: Many U.S.-Bound Terror Suspects Caught in Darien Gap Region

Sen. Kamala Harris’s Attempted Sabotage of Immigration Law Enforcement

The legislation that Kamala Harris championed during her four years in the U.S. Senate reveals a disturbingly extreme immigration agenda. Sen. Harris introduced or co-sponsored a wide array of bills designed to negatively impact the ability of DHS to enforce our nation’s immigration laws.

Read also: Kamala Harris Tried to Take $220 Million Out of ICE’s Enforcement Division

New Wage Data Show No STEM Worker ‘Shortage’

Contradicts new National Academies report

A new National Academies report released yesterday, entitled “International Talent Programs in the Changing Global Environment”, is the latest to argue that the U.S. needs to recruit and retain more immigrants to work in STEM fields. In this report we harness new data to help explain why STEM workers are actually not in short supply.

Foreign Student Fraud Case Highlights Serious Problems

Dangerous weaknesses in oversight at DHS, the State Department, and the university

The latest example of fraud in the foreign student program involves a foreign student who lied his way into the United States and also obtained a full-ride scholarship by lying to Lehigh University in Pennsylvania.

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.

Has Panama Closed the ‘Darien Gap’?
Has Panama Closed the ‘Darien Gap’?
Harris’s Attempted Sabotage of Immigration Law
Harris’s Attempted Sabotage of Immigration Law
Data Show No STEM Worker ‘Shortage’
Data Show No STEM Worker ‘Shortage’
Foreign Student Fraud
Foreign Student Fraud
New Record Highs for Foreign-Born
New Record Highs for Foreign-Born

An early Center for Immigration Studies assessment from the field

Panama was unable to ramp up substantial air or ground expulsions because the United States did not follow through with seemingly promised financial support Panama thought necessary for repatriation flights to be effective.

Read also: Many U.S.-Bound Terror Suspects Caught in Darien Gap Region

The legislation that Kamala Harris championed during her four years in the U.S. Senate reveals a disturbingly extreme immigration agenda. Sen. Harris introduced or co-sponsored a wide array of bills designed to negatively impact the ability of DHS to enforce our nation’s immigration laws.

Read also: Kamala Harris Tried to Take $220 Million Out of ICE’s Enforcement Division

Contradicts new National Academies report

A new National Academies report released yesterday, entitled “International Talent Programs in the Changing Global Environment”, is the latest to argue that the U.S. needs to recruit and retain more immigrants to work in STEM fields. In this report we harness new data to help explain why STEM workers are actually not in short supply.

Dangerous weaknesses in oversight at DHS, the State Department, and the university

The latest example of fraud in the foreign student program involves a foreign student who lied his way into the United States and also obtained a full-ride scholarship by lying to Lehigh University in Pennsylvania.

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.

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The Signature that Gets Them to ‘Start Packing’ Sooner

Biden-Harris could launch the employer-friendly ‘G-Verify’ alternative to E-Verify today

If implemented, G-Verify would likely result in the prompt dismissal of many if not most unauthorized workers. There is arguably nothing else that a re-elected President Trump could more readily do to get the millions "packing” than finding a pen to sign the G-Verify rule into law.
Topics: E-Verify

The Administration, the Senate Border Bill, and a Brewing Constitutional Imbalance

Failures of the press, and a missed opportunity for the GOP that’s now being used against them

Ukraine funding gave opponents of the administration’s border policies a chance to restore balance to an issue that, constitutionally, Congress is supposed to call all the shots on. Not only was that opportunity lost, but the resulting product would have codified migrant releases. Now Congress's refusal to play along is being used against the GOP, aided and abetted by a credulous press.