Protecting American Citizenship III: Denaturalization and its Constitutional Limits

George Fishman, Senior Legal Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution at a hearing titled “Protecting American Citizenship III: Denaturalization and its Constitutional Limits.”

Immigration Newsmaker: A Conversation with CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott

Interview with the head of America’s largest law enforcement agency

The Center for Immigration Studies invites you to attend an Immigration Newsmaker featuring Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Rodney Scott on Tuesday, June 9, 2026 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The event will be livestreamed.

Preventing the Naturalization of National Security Threats: The 1798 Solution

Since denaturalization is so difficult, extending the wait time before an immigrant can become a citizen might be our best available tool to prevent the naturalization of national security threats.

It is much harder for an alien who has been an LPR for a long period of time to hide their proclivities than it is for one who has been an LPR for a short period. 

Education Level of Newly Arrived Immigrants Has Declined

A new report finds that immigrants (both legal and illegal) who arrived during the period of the border surge are significantly less educated and have lower incomes than immigrants who arrived immediately preceding the surge. 

The decline in education of new immigrants overall primarily reflects the enormous increase in the share of newcomers who are from Latin America, many of whom are less educated and entered illegally. 

Immigration Newsmaker: A Conversation with Andrew Veprek

Livestreamed interview with the head of the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration 

The Center for Immigration Studies held an Immigration Newsmaker event featuring Andrew Veprek, Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM). 

What is the State Department’s humanitarian bureau doing on migration policy — and what comes next?

Senate Hearing: Denaturalization and its Constitutional Limits
Senate Hearing: Denaturalization and its Constitutional Limits
Immigration Newsmaker: A Conversation with Rodney Scott
Immigration Newsmaker: A Conversation with Rodney Scott
Preventing the Naturalization of National Security Threats
Preventing the Naturalization of National Security Threats
Education Level of Newly Arrived Immigrants Has Declined
Education Level of Newly Arrived Immigrants Has Declined
Immigration Newsmaker: A Conversation with Andrew Veprek
Immigration Newsmaker: A Conversation with Andrew Veprek

George Fishman, Senior Legal Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution at a hearing titled “Protecting American Citizenship III: Denaturalization and its Constitutional Limits.”

Interview with the head of America’s largest law enforcement agency

The Center for Immigration Studies invites you to attend an Immigration Newsmaker featuring Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Rodney Scott on Tuesday, June 9, 2026 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The event will be livestreamed.

Since denaturalization is so difficult, extending the wait time before an immigrant can become a citizen might be our best available tool to prevent the naturalization of national security threats.

It is much harder for an alien who has been an LPR for a long period of time to hide their proclivities than it is for one who has been an LPR for a short period. 

A new report finds that immigrants (both legal and illegal) who arrived during the period of the border surge are significantly less educated and have lower incomes than immigrants who arrived immediately preceding the surge. 

The decline in education of new immigrants overall primarily reflects the enormous increase in the share of newcomers who are from Latin America, many of whom are less educated and entered illegally. 

Livestreamed interview with the head of the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration 

The Center for Immigration Studies held an Immigration Newsmaker event featuring Andrew Veprek, Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM). 

What is the State Department’s humanitarian bureau doing on migration policy — and what comes next?

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The Work Crisis and the Work Still to Be Done

Labor scarcity can force a society to notice the people it has become accustomed to ignoring. If employers cannot endlessly draw on imported labor, they may eventually have to rediscover the men already here. That process will be slow, uneven, and incomplete. But it is still better than using immigration as a band-aid for a wound we refuse to treat.

BIA: Illegal Alien Adult with Pending ‘Special Immigrant Juvenile’ Claim Is Subject to Detention

Program intended to protect migrant kids is now increasingly being accessed by grown-ups — including criminals

Trump II is attempting to mitigate what it terms as “vulnerabilities in the integrity of the SIJ program”, including use of the special immigrant juvenile process by adult aliens seeking release from custody and indefinite unlawful stays in the United States. For now, the BIA is staying out of the administration’s way as it works to achieve that goal. We’ll see whether Article III courts do the same.

BREAKING: New Policy Will Require Compliance with the Law

CBS News: ‘Trump Plan Would Allow for Quick Asylum Rejections Without Interviews’

The real story in the CBS report is that for nearly 30 years, asylum officers have conducted asylum interviews for untimely filed applications that are barred by statute, improperly delaying denials and allowing aliens to exploit our humanitarian system to extend their unlawful presence in this country indefinitely. If the report is correct, these abuses are coming to an end, and not a moment too soon.