Immigration Blog

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DHS Issues Rule to End Automatic Renewals for Work Permits

CIS submitted a comment supporting the rule and recommended further policy changes to increase agency efficiency and fairness

Topics: Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)

Op-ed: Vetting in All the Wrong Places

Topics: National Security, Afghan Refugees

Immigration Judges Issued Nearly 500K Removal Orders in FY 2025

‘Due process’ and congressional mandates are why you should ignore complaints that ICE is arresting ‘non-criminals’

Topics: Immigration Courts

Giving Tuesday 2025

Support the Center for Immigration Studies

Assimilation or Removal

Afghan vetting and the D.C. Metro shooting

Topics: National Security, Afghan Refugees

Op-ed: Trump plan to cut farmworker wages hurts America’s competitiveness

Topics: H-2A Nonimmigrant Visa Program

Judge in Abrego Garcia Case Finally Realizes a Point I Made Months Ago

The apparent absence of a ‘minute order’ is no mere paperwork technicality

Topics: Immigration Courts

DHS Risks Losing the Immigration-Enforcement Narrative

If you don’t tell your own story, your opponents will do it for you

Topics: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

DHS Issues Rule to Expand Biometric Data Collection at Ports of Entry

CIS submitted a comment supporting CBP’s efforts to implement decades-old laws

Topics: Customs and Border Protection (CBP), US VISIT and EXIT System

‘Mommy, Where Do Federal Judges Come From?’

A primer on blue slips, filibusters, and an increasingly polarized (and politicized) judiciary

Topics: Supreme Court Decisions on Immigration Policy