Before the Task Force on Defending Constitutional Rights and Exposing Institutional Abuses, Of the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform 

There are steps Congress can take to help fight fraud, but when something this valuable is on offer – residence in the United States – there will always be some who seek to break the rules to get it.

Interview with the head of America’s largest law enforcement agency

Rodney Scott, Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, joined Center Executive Director Mark Krikorian for an in-depth conversation on the challenges facing CBP and the administration’s broader enforcement strategy.

The Center for Immigration Studies has released a series of analyses examining a recent USCIS memo emphasizing that adjustment of status - the process allowing certain aliens, either temporary visa holders or unlawfully present, who are eligible for permanent residence to obtain it without leaving the United States - is a discretionary benefit and not a guaranteed alternative to consular processing abroad.

George Fishman, Senior Legal Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution at a hearing titled “Protecting American Citizenship III: Denaturalization and its Constitutional Limits.”

A new report finds that immigrants (both legal and illegal) who arrived during the period of the border surge are significantly less educated and have lower incomes than immigrants who arrived immediately preceding the surge. 

The decline in education of new immigrants overall primarily reflects the enormous increase in the share of newcomers who are from Latin America, many of whom are less educated and entered illegally.