Center for Immigration Studies

Controversial DHS Program Allows Foreign Students to Train in Sensitive Fields

America’s foreign student program poses a significant national security risk that has gone unaddressed by both the legislative and executive branches.

Foreign Student Fraud Case Highlights Serious Problems

There Are 1.5 Million Foreign Students in the U.S.

Remain in Mexico

Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, United States Senate

Given the importance of legal immigration to the United States, it is incumbent on Congress and the administration to reverse these trends and restore Americans’ faith in and commitment to lawful immigration. That starts with securing the border.

Don’t Fear the Insurrection Act

A force for good for over 200 years, the act empowers President Trump to deploy the military to aid deportation efforts

President Trump would have ample justification to use the Insurrection Act to allow the U.S. military to actively assist with a direct law-enforcement role with large-scale deportation efforts.

Panel: Beyond the Border

Why Legal Immigration Numbers Matter

The Center hosted a panel to discuss the importance of immigration numbers, legal and illegal, and their impact on wages, the labor market, and the American workforce.

This timely panel builds on the debate sparked by Elon Musk’s recent comment highlighting the need for more legal immigration and seeks to heighten awareness of the impact of legal immigration – both high-skilled and low-skilled.

Anatomy of Border-Crosser’s Terror Attack

Part Three: How to Lower the Risk of New Terror Strikes by Border-Crossing Islamist Extremists

A new investigative three-part series details an attack by an illegal alien terrorist that received little attention by U.S. media or the FBI.

The attack and later suicide by hanging of the suspect in Cook County jail, short-circuiting a trial prompted the Center to travel to Chicago to learn more about the incident.

Read: Part One, Part Two

Foreign Students Train in Sensitive Fields

Remain in Mexico

Don’t Fear the Insurrection Act

Panel Discussion: Beyond the Border

Anatomy of Border-Crosser’s Terror Attack

Immigration Publications

Controversial DHS Program Allows Foreign Students to Train in Sensitive Fields

America’s foreign student program poses a significant national security risk that has gone unaddressed by both the legislative and executive branches.

Foreign Student Fraud Case Highlights Serious Problems

There Are 1.5 Million Foreign Students in the U.S.

Remain in Mexico

Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, United States Senate

Don’t Fear the Insurrection Act

A force for good for over 200 years, the act empowers President Trump to deploy the military to aid deportation efforts

President Trump would have ample justification to use the Insurrection Act to allow the U.S. military to actively assist with a direct law-enforcement role with large-scale deportation efforts.

Panel: Beyond the Border

Why Legal Immigration Numbers Matter

The Center hosted a panel to discuss the importance of immigration numbers, legal and illegal, and their impact on wages, the labor market, and the American workforce.

Part Three: How to Lower the Risk of New Terror Strikes by Border-Crossing Islamist Extremists

A new investigative three-part series details an attack by an illegal alien terrorist that received little attention by U.S. media or the FBI.

The attack and later suicide by hanging of the suspect in Cook County jail, short-circuiting a trial prompted the Center to travel to Chicago to learn more about the incident.

Read: Part One, Part Two

Immigration Blog

Ohio Lieutenant Governor on His Way to Senate, Replacing J.D. Vance

He’s taken the time to study immigration issues, and offer his own thoughtful takes

It remains to be seen whether Jon Husted will be as firm on immigration enforcement as a senator as his predecessor, J.D. Vance, has been. But at least he’s taken the time to study the issues and offer his own thoughtful takes.

Topics: Politics

Op-ed: TPS: Part of Immigration’s Empire of Lies

In Orwell’s 1984, the Ministry of Peace headquarters was emblazoned with three mottoes: “War Is Peace,” Freedom Is Slavery,” and “Ignorance Is Strength.” A recent Biden administration action reminds us that immigration law and policy are replete with similar, if more specialized, inversions of the meaning of words.

Topics: Temporary Protected Status (TPS)

Fla. Governor to Send Border Hawk Ashley Moody to the Senate

The hero of Florida v. U.S.

Without her leadership, the migrant crisis of the last four years would have been a whole lot worse than the disaster it’s already been.

Topics: Biden Border Crisis, Florida, Immigration Parole

Op-ed: Biden’s final border lie: That hundreds of thousands of migrants can’t be deported

When Joe Biden, in one of his final acts as president, approved a sweeping extension of “Temporary Protected Status” to 600,000 Venezuelans, most Americans could not know that his official justification was based almost entirely on a lie.

Topics: Biden Border Crisis, Temporary Protected Status (TPS)

To Fight Terrorism, Trump Should Follow Ike’s Example

When people aren’t reminded of what’s true and not, what’s right and wrong, they lose their bearings

Keeping alien terrorists out of the United States is key, but it won’t ensure that aliens aren’t radicalized here. For that, the president needs to make clear what intifada really means and looks like, following the lead of Gen. Eisenhower after the Holocaust.

Topics: National Security

Op-ed: As Trump 2.0 Approaches, NGOs Continue To Fund Mass Migration With U.S. Tax Dollars

New U.N. planning docs show billions of dollars budgeted for debit cards, transportation, shelter, food and cash.

The large, organized constellation of UN and NGO agencies sees a rosy future for itself even under Donald Trump, having already directed billions of mostly U.S. taxpayer dollars into supporting millions of illegal southern border crossing trips during President Joe Biden’s term.

Topics: Biden Border Crisis