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.

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

The Center for Immigration Studies hosted a panel to discuss a new report, Harnessing the State Department to Lead U.S. Foreign Policy that Fights Illegal Immigration and Promotes Border Security, which includes key policy recommendations for the next administration.

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.

The Immigration Act of 1924
The Immigration Act of 1924
Immigration Shifts Political Power
Immigration Shifts Political Power
Panel: State Department Can Lead
Panel: State Department Can Lead
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

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 Center for Immigration Studies hosted a panel to discuss a new report, Harnessing the State Department to Lead U.S. Foreign Policy that Fights Illegal Immigration and Promotes Border Security, which includes key policy recommendations for the next administration.

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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Biden-Harris DHS Already Does a Smaller Version of Trump’s ‘Cruel’ Mass Deportation of Immigrant Families – with No Media Freakout

The profound hypocrisy of the outrage machine now ginning up against Trump’s coming deportation crackdown

In gearing up to oppose President-elect Trump's deportation program, the media and other opponents have invoked the Holocaust and concentration camps and the like. And yet The Biden-Harris administration's removals of illegal-alien families prompted no such outrage.

Another Day, Another H-1B Fraud

According to the press release from the U.S. Attorney’s office, Kishore Dattapuram, Kumar Aswapathi, and Santosh Giri pleaded guilty to ten counts of visa fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit visa fraud. The charges revolve around making H-1B visa petitions when there was no actual job for the visa beneficiary.

Charleston County, S.C. Voters Fire Sanctuary Sheriff

Non-cooperation with ICE became an issue after CIS flagged it in sanctuary map

Voters in Charleston County, S.C., have ousted a sheriff who made the county a sanctuary for criminal aliens. The sanctuary policy became an issue in now-lame-duck Sheriff Kristin Graziano’s re-election bid after the Center flagged it in a recent update to our sanctuary map and list.