The Biden administration is proposing sweeping legislation to legalize virtually all illegal aliens, enact a variety of measures to weaken immigration enforcement, and increase legal immigration beyond the current level of about 1 million a year.

During a devastating pandemic, a wrenching economic slowdown, and political instability, the White House's top priority is amnesty for illegal aliens.

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The argument that the United States desperately needs immigration because Americans are not having "enough" children is a common theme of opinion pieces and even news coverage. However, the latest data from the Census Bureau's 2019 American Community Survey shows that the fertility of both native-born and immigrant women continues to decline, with the fall-off being more pronounced among immigrants.

A Professional Assessment of the Terrorist Infiltration Threat at the Border

The Center hosted a panel to discuss one of the most politicized, taboo, and chronically misunderstood threats to the U.S. Southwest Border: the national security risk posed by long-haul illegal border entry of migrants from nations of terrorism concern in the Middle East, South Asia, and North Africa.

The likely revival and expansion of the CAM and PTA programs

The Biden administration is likely to reinstate and expand the Central American Minors and Refugee/Parole program and Protection Transfer Arrangement.

Many eligibility conditions could be lifted for CAM applicants and PTA resettlement spots could be expanded and funding increased.

Related: Border Security Director in Biden's White House Will Come from the UN

‘Trump Effect’ likely explains slowdown

Recently released Census data shows the number of immigrants (legal and illegal) grew more slowly from 2017 to 2019 than in prior years.

In the first two years of the Trump administration, growth in the immigrant population averaged only about 200,000 a year, in contrast to 650,000 a year from 2010 to 2017.