Panel: State Department Can Lead on Fighting Illegal Immigration and Promoting Border Security

The Center hosted a panel to discuss a new report, which includes key policy recommendations for the next administration.

The topic gains fresh relevance as President-elect Donald Trump recently named Sen. Marco Rubio as his nominee for Secretary of State. Rubio’s selection comes at a pivotal time when the Department of State’s leadership could help shape U.S. immigration policy.

The Rise and Fall of the Immigration Act of 1924

A Greek Tragedy 

The Immigration Act of 1924 ushered in a four-decade-long Great Pause in mass immigration. This allowed the United States to assimilate the 20-plus million immigrants who arrived during the “Great Wave” that had begun in the 1880s. And the Act fostered a national economic climate conducive to the flowering of the American Dream, especially for Black Americans.

Immigration Shifts Political Power

Seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and thus votes in the Electoral College are apportioned among the states based on each one’s total population — not by the number of citizens or legal residents. The Center for Immigration Studies today released two reports explaining how this works, which are the subject of this week’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy.

How the New Biden-Harris ‘Welcome Corps’ for Refugees Works

The Welcome Corps is a private sponsorship program designed by the Biden-Harris administration to create opportunities for private individuals in the U.S. to select their own “refugees” and future American citizens. Sponsored individuals do not need to actually be refugees according to the UNHCR Refugee Status Determination, let alone in that subset of refugees determined by the UN to be in “need of resettlement”.

Read also: Higher Refugee Admissions in FY 2024

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.

Panel: State Department Can Lead
Panel: State Department Can Lead
The Immigration Act of 1924
The Immigration Act of 1924
Immigration Shifts Political Power
Immigration Shifts Political Power
How the ‘Welcome Corps’ for Refugees Works
How the ‘Welcome Corps’ for Refugees Works
New Record Highs for Foreign-Born
New Record Highs for Foreign-Born

The Center hosted a panel to discuss a new report, which includes key policy recommendations for the next administration.

The topic gains fresh relevance as President-elect Donald Trump recently named Sen. Marco Rubio as his nominee for Secretary of State. Rubio’s selection comes at a pivotal time when the Department of State’s leadership could help shape U.S. immigration policy.

A Greek Tragedy 

The Immigration Act of 1924 ushered in a four-decade-long Great Pause in mass immigration. This allowed the United States to assimilate the 20-plus million immigrants who arrived during the “Great Wave” that had begun in the 1880s. And the Act fostered a national economic climate conducive to the flowering of the American Dream, especially for Black Americans.

Seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and thus votes in the Electoral College are apportioned among the states based on each one’s total population — not by the number of citizens or legal residents. The Center for Immigration Studies today released two reports explaining how this works, which are the subject of this week’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy.

The Welcome Corps is a private sponsorship program designed by the Biden-Harris administration to create opportunities for private individuals in the U.S. to select their own “refugees” and future American citizens. Sponsored individuals do not need to actually be refugees according to the UNHCR Refugee Status Determination, let alone in that subset of refugees determined by the UN to be in “need of resettlement”.

Read also: Higher Refugee Admissions in FY 2024 under the Biden-Harris Administration

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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By CIS on December 3, 2024
Thank you for sticking with us as we navigated the most challenging immigration years in our nation’s history. We could not have done it without you. Now we are asking you to stay with us as we seek to bring our shared goals to fruition.

British Prime Minister Savages Conservative Party’s ‘Liberal’ Immigration Policies

The Tory effort to turn ‘Britain into a one-nation experiment in open borders’

In many ways, U.S. policies drive similar policies abroad, particularly among our closest allies, so don’t be surprised to see other leaders promising immigration crackdowns — because that was plainly what British Prime Minister Keir Starmer was pitching his constituents last week.

Op-ed: Sanctuary Is a Corrupt Bargain

The word “corrupt” stresses a loss of moral integrity or probity causing betrayal of principle or sworn obligations. Sanctuary for illegal immigrants, protecting them from arrest by immigration authorities, is corrupt in concept, corrupt in effect, and illegal.

Fifth Circuit: Biden Administration Cannot Cut Texas Border Wire

‘The immigration system . . . dysfunctional and flawed as it is, would work if properly implemented’

The latest chapter of a long-running dispute between the Biden-Harris administration and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott — though given the results of the 2024 presidential election, it’s bound to become a footnote in this sorry tale.