Refugees and Asylum

"The United States provides refuge to persons who have been persecuted or have a well-founded fear of persecution through two programs: one for refugees (persons outside the U.S.) and one for asylees (persons in the U.S.)."
- The United States Department of Homeland Security

"A wide-ranging review is needed of this costly and out-of-control system. It has failed refugees, both by diverting limited resources from overseas assistance and by the sheer neglect of those resettled in the United States by their 'sponsors.' The program is rife with fraud, profitable for hundreds of 'non-profit' organizations, and is a potential channel for terrorism into American communities."
- Don Barnett, CIS Fellow

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CIS Comments on the DOJ/DHS ‘Securing the Border’ Final Rule

CIS asked the government to strengthen its new regulation to more effectively deter asylum fraud

Topics: Biden Border Crisis, Asylum

The End of Asylum

Topics: Asylum

DHS and DOJ Plan to Strengthen the Biden-Harris Administration’s Asylum Restriction Rule

The ‘Securing the Border’ IFR Still Permits a Crisis Level of Border Encounters

Topics: Biden Border Crisis, Asylum

Refugee Convention Signatories Never Signed Up for a Mass Influx of Aliens

The conventional view of the 1951 treaty is wrong

Topics: Refugees

Higher Refugee Admissions in FY 2024 under the Biden-Harris Administration

Beyond numbers, this administration has managed to change the purpose of the U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program

Topics: Biden Border Crisis, Refugees

How the New Biden-Harris ‘Welcome Corps’ for Refugees Works

You don’t have to already be officially a refugee to be sponsored for resettlement, and your sponsor doesn’t even have to be a citizen

Topics: Refugees

The Latest Biden/Harris ‘Lawful Pathways’ Scheme: Declare Latin American Migrants to Be ‘Refugees’

Thousands flying in who would not have qualified as refugees in the past

Topics: Biden Border Crisis, Refugees

Remaking the U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program

The Biden administration’s changes and expansions

Topics: Refugees

Affirmative Asylum Backlog Exceeds One Million for the First Time

‘Affirmative’ claims are generally made by aliens already lawfully present in the U.S. — not at the border or as a defense against removal

Topics: Asylum, Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)

CIS Submits Formal Comment on Watered-Down Biden Administration Asylum Regulation

Submission explains the strategy's flaws and offers alternatives to improve border security

Topics: Biden Border Crisis, Asylum