Testimony before the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on Natural Resources

Julie Axelrod, the Center’s director of litigation, explains how the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) encourages environmentally-conscious decision-making. It mandates evaluation of the consequences of population growth - including increased traffic congestion, energy consumption, and encroachment on wildlife habitats.

Commentators have called for it, but can it be done?

There is growing recognition that the gargantuan 2.6 million case backlog in our immigration courts (largely generated by the Biden administration's disastrous policies) is crippling the courts. Calls are even coming from commentators who cannot be described as restrictionist to suspend the admission of all asylum seekers crossing the border illegally until the backlog can be shrunk.

The Center for Immigration Studies embedded with the Texas military and state police, led by Texas Rangers, when they reclaimed Fronton Island from Mexican cartels. This 170-acre island, located in the middle of the Rio Grande river, had long served as a haven for criminal activities, including drug smuggling, human trafficking, and violence against both American law enforcement and Fronton residents.

This report highlights the potential applicability of our nation’s oldest extant immigration enforcement statute, the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) of 1798. Can this 225-year-old statute address contemporary security challenges, specifically the issues of foreign criminal organizations – gangs and cartels - operating within the U.S., as well as students from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) gathering military-valuable intellectual property on American college campuses?

Less than two months after his arrival in the U.S., Afghan evacuee Alif Jan Adil was arrested for engaging in prohibited sexual conduct with a minor and possessing child pornography images. His lawyer argued that “he was still steeped in his home culture and had had little time to assimilate into the U.S.”