Senate Hearing on Mass Deportations

Testimony of Andrew R. Arthur Before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary

Under our Constitution, Congress has plenary authority to make rules concerning the admission of aliens, their presence in the United States, and their removal from this country. It is the role of the executive branch to carry out those rules, consistent with due process.

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.

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.

Senate Hearing on Mass Deportations
Senate Hearing on Mass Deportations
Panel: State Department Can Lead
Panel: State Department Can Lead
The Immigration Act of 1924
The Immigration Act of 1924
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

Testimony of Andrew R. Arthur Before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary

Under our Constitution, Congress has plenary authority to make rules concerning the admission of aliens, their presence in the United States, and their removal from this country. It is the role of the executive branch to carry out those rules, consistent with due process.

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.

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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Op-ed: Is Demography Still Destiny After 2024?

Party coalitions change, but group ideological preferences are more persistent.

The potentially transformative effect of mass immigration is not that Republicans will disappear, but that they will weaken their traditional conservative ideology in order to stay competitive.
Topics: Politics

Afghan Evacuee Added to CIS National Security Vetting Failures Database

Former CIA guard is charged with terrorism; assurances that he was vetted turn out to be untrue

An Afghan evacuee from the August 2021 fall of Kabul who stands charged with multiple terrorism offenses that include a mass-casualty firearms attack plot is the latest addition to the Center for Immigration Studies National Security Vetting Failures Database, bringing the total number of cases to 49.

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.

Giving Tuesday

Support the Center

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.

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.