Center for Immigration Studies

Immigration Publications

The UN’s Palestinian Refugee Agency

Funded and Advised by the State Department’s Refugee and Migration Bureau

The issue of Palestinian refugees is important, not just in the obvious foreign policy sense, but also to U.S. migration and refugee policy. This report offers an overview of UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees’ history, financing, staff, and institutional culture, as well as its various scandals, including its ties to Hamas.

Biden’s Border Crisis: Examining the Impacts of International Cartels Targeting Indian Country

U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources, Sub-committee on Oversight and Investigations

The mass migration crisis instigated by the Biden administration’s irresponsible immigration policies has caused incalculable harm to American communities, including those in Indian Country, even those far from the border.

SCOTUS Has Made the Impeachment of Sec. Mayorkas a Constitutional Imperative

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution of impeachment on February 13, 2024.

Impeachment Resolution Introduced

House Homeland Security Committee Report Lays Out Case for Impeachment

Yes, Mayorkas Is in Fact Breaking the Law

Body Cameras for ICE?

Program inspired by anti-ICE members of Congress is being rolled out despite pilot showing no benefit

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has announced that it will deploy 1,600 body-worn cameras to its two law enforcement components, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).

Upcoming Panel: Illegal Immigration by Sea

And you thought land borders were hard to defend . . .

With the crisis in Haiti sparking fears of a new exodus and illegal crossings up in the Mediterranean, maritime illegal immigration is a challenge all destination countries are facing – one that is very different from the challenge of controlling a land border.

The UN’s Palestinian Refugee Agency

House Hearing: Biden's Border Crisis

The Impeachment of Sec. Mayorkas

Body Cameras for ICE?

Panel: Illegal Immigration by Sea

Immigration Publications

The UN’s Palestinian Refugee Agency

Funded and Advised by the State Department’s Refugee and Migration Bureau

Biden’s Border Crisis: Examining the Impacts of International Cartels Targeting Indian Country

U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources, Sub-committee on Oversight and Investigations

SCOTUS Has Made the Impeachment of Sec. Mayorkas a Constitutional Imperative

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution of impeachment on February 13, 2024.

Impeachment Resolution Introduced

House Homeland Security Committee Report Lays Out Case for Impeachment

Yes, Mayorkas Is in Fact Breaking the Law

Body Cameras for ICE?

Program inspired by anti-ICE members of Congress is being rolled out despite pilot showing no benefit

Upcoming Panel: Illegal Immigration by Sea

And you thought land borders were hard to defend . . .

Immigration Blog

Tribal Leaders Seek Help to Oust Mexican Drug Cartels

On April 10, I joined three tribal leaders at a hearing held by the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources to examine the threat to Indian Country communities posed by foreign drug cartels.

Topics: Criminal Aliens

SW Border Apprehensions Exceed One Million in First Six Months of FY 2024

Even while the administration funneled tens of thousands of other illegal migrants into the country, but President Biden likely owes a debt of gratitude to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R)

CBP's monthly encounter statistics for March on Friday, and they reveal that Southwest border apprehensions between ports of entry have exceeded a million in just the first six months of FY 2024. Those apprehension numbers would likely have been much higher if the Biden administration weren't funneling tens of thousands of other aliens through the ports — and if Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) weren’t taking unprecedented steps to secure his state’s border with Mexico.

Topics: Biden Border Crisis, Texas

Federal Government Releases Suspected Afghan Terrorist — Twice

Confirming my worst suspicions, even as the FBI director says he’d ‘be hard-pressed to think of a time where so many threats to our public safety and national security were so elevated all at once’

Various outlets have reported that an Afghan migrant on the terrorist watchlist due to suspected ties to a foreign terrorist organization was nonetheless released — not once but twice.

Topics: National Security

Texas Asks Judge to Reconsider CHNV Decision

The parole program has increased the number of inadmissible aliens in the U.S. from those four countries

If the administration’s intent in implementing CHNV parole and the CBP One app interview scheme was to deter inadmissible migrants from entering illegally, they failed. But then, DHS Secretary Mayorkas long ago admitted that deterrence is not the focus of the current administration’s border policies.

Topics: Biden Border Crisis, Immigration Parole

Op-ed: Biden again teases to do something he always could do – close the border

After repeated White House hints that the president might finally do something about the border — none of which resulted in anything — this week the president himself teased that maybe, possibly he might act.

Topics: Biden Border Crisis

Fact Sheet on Haitian Immigrants in the United States

Due to the increased possibility of a surge in migration from Haiti, there is significant interest in the Haitian immigrant community currently residing in the United States. This fact sheet provides the most up-to-date socio-demographic profile of immigrants from that Caribbean country.

Topics: Current Numbers