Immigration Publications

Upcoming Panel: 9/11 and Immigration

Upcoming Panel: 9/11 and Immigration - Twenty-Five Years of Lessons and Unfinished Business

With remarks by ex-Senator and Attorney General Jeff Sessions

Twenty-five years after 9/11, is the United States better prepared to prevent another terrorist attack?

The Center for Immigration Studies will convene a panel to examine that question, discussing the role immigration and border security played in the attacks, the major policy changes that followed, and the national-security challenges that remain.

Testimony: The Problem of Birth Tourism

The Problem of Birth Tourism

Testimony before the Task Force on Defending Constitutional Rights and Exposing Institutional Abuses, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

Concern over birth tourism is really a component of the larger set of issues raised by the practice of granting automatic citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil, regardless of the parent's circumstances, time in the country, or relationship with the United States.

States vs. Federal Immigration Officers

States vs. Federal Immigration Officers

Can state prosecution become state persecution?

This report discusses what happens when state and local governments criminally prosecute federal law enforcement officials in order to obstruct the enforcement of disfavored federal laws. What protections are available to federal officers targeted for prosecution simply for carrying out their duties under federal law?

Cheap Labor, Not Cultural Exchange

Exchange Visa Programs Operate Mainly For Cheap Labor, Not Cultural Exchange

The J visa program is run by the State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA). 

This report presents some of the official data on the J-1 program to show how many workers are participating, which countries they come from, and the most common destination states.

Upcoming Panel: 9/11 and Immigration
Upcoming Panel: 9/11 and Immigration
Testimony: The Problem of Birth Tourism
Testimony: The Problem of Birth Tourism
States vs. Federal Immigration Officers
States vs. Federal Immigration Officers
Cheap Labor, Not Cultural Exchange
Cheap Labor, Not Cultural Exchange

Immigration Publications

Upcoming Panel: 9/11 and Immigration - Twenty-Five Years of Lessons and Unfinished Business

With remarks by ex-Senator and Attorney General Jeff Sessions

Twenty-five years after 9/11, is the United States better prepared to prevent another terrorist attack?

The Center for Immigration Studies will convene a panel to examine that question, discussing the role immigration and border security played in the attacks, the major policy changes that followed, and the national-security challenges that remain.

The Problem of Birth Tourism

Testimony before the Task Force on Defending Constitutional Rights and Exposing Institutional Abuses, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

Concern over birth tourism is really a component of the larger set of issues raised by the practice of granting automatic citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil, regardless of the parent's circumstances, time in the country, or relationship with the United States.

States vs. Federal Immigration Officers

Can state prosecution become state persecution?

This report discusses what happens when state and local governments criminally prosecute federal law enforcement officials in order to obstruct the enforcement of disfavored federal laws. What protections are available to federal officers targeted for prosecution simply for carrying out their duties under federal law?

Exchange Visa Programs Operate Mainly For Cheap Labor, Not Cultural Exchange

The J visa program is run by the State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA). 

This report presents some of the official data on the J-1 program to show how many workers are participating, which countries they come from, and the most common destination states.

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Federal Judge Enjoins Virginia’s Anti-287(g) Law

Either the supporters of Virginia’s 287(g) law were unfamiliar with the U.S. Constitution’s clearly defined restrictions on state regulation of federal activities in its sphere (including immigration) or simply chose to ignore them in the interest of politics. Regardless, they are receiving quite the constitutional education from U.S. District Court Judge Robert Payne.

Topics: Virginia, 287(g) Program

Appellate Board Sustains $3K Fine on Alien Who Failed to Voluntarily Depart

Statutory penalties reflect ‘Congress’s intent that voluntary departure and removal orders be enforced’

If you want to see what decades of non-enforcement of the INA looks like, consider R-P-L-, an alien granted the privilege of leaving voluntarily, but who for more than 20 years abused that privilege and remained in the futile hope he could legally stay. Congress intends DHS to enforce the law, and for now, at least — that’s what’s happening.

Topics: Immigration Courts

BREAKING: Alien Overstay under Final Order Deported!

Milo Yiannopoulos ‘chose to overstay his welcome in violation of our nation’s laws’ — play stupid immigration games, win a trip back home

Aside from the purportedly outré opinions of the target, there’s little exceptional about ICE’s arrest and deportation of Milo Yiannopoulos, an alien under a final removal order, at a U.S. airport. And that’s how it should be.

Topics: Visa Waiver Program

The Oxymoronic ‘Criminal Alien’ Arguments that Now Define the Immigration Debate

... and that endanger U.S. communities with their mobius loop of sanctimonious inanity

It’s oxymoronic to: (1) claim illegal aliens commit fewer crimes; (2) use that claim to justify sanctuary policies that; (3) impede ICE officers’ ability to take the allegedly rare class of alien criminals into custody and then; (4) complain ICE is arresting proportionally more non-criminal aliens than criminal ones.

Topics: Sanctuary Cities, Criminal Aliens

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