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Under Biden, Democrats Shifted on Immigration

Disastrous policies caused a seismic shift away from open borders

Topics: Biden Border Crisis, Polls and Surveys

Immigration Newsmaker Transcript: A Conversation with Andrew Veprek

The Case Against Immigration

Why the United States Should Look Out for Itself

Academic Articles

Latest Harvard/Harris Poll Shows (Extremely) Modest Bump for ‘Mass Deportation’

While large majority of voters believe Democrats favor ‘open borders’

Topics: Polls and Surveys

Excerpt: Biden’s Border Crisis Will Return If We Don’t Close These Loopholes Now

Presidents have shown that they cannot be trusted to be responsible in using the discretion Congress has given them in immigration policy.

Topics: Immigration Parole, Temporary Protected Status (TPS)

A Muslim Aliyah Paralleled the Jewish Aliyah: Part I, to 1948

Academic Articles

The Victims of Marriage-Related Immigration Fraud Tell Their Stories

Topics: Marriage Fraud

Overall Foreign-Born Population Down 2.2 Million January to July

Illegal population estimated to have fallen 1.6 million this year

Topics: Current Numbers, Immigrant Characteristics and Latest Numbers, Illegal Immigration

DHS’s Crackdown on OPT Fraud Will Not Fix the Program’s Biggest Problems

Topics: Optional Practical Training Program (OPT)

Proposed Rule Would Raise Wage Levels for Certain Visa Programs

CIS public comment suggested further strengthening of prevailing wage calculations for H-1B, H-1B1, E-3, and PERM

Topics: H-1B Nonimmigrant Visa Progam

BIA Continues to Roll Back Biden’s ‘Quiet Amnesty’

Topics: Biden Border Crisis, Immigration Courts

DHS and DOJ Begin Imposing (Often Massive) Fines on Aliens Who Refuse to Leave

A different — but equally effective — form of ‘briefcase enforcement’, especially for the aliens under $1 million-plus judgments

Topics: Attrition and Enforcement

Update on the Illegal-Alien School Superintendent in Iowa

Ian Roberts sentenced to prison, but many questions are still unanswered, even as two vulnerabilities in the immigration work authorization system are exposed

Topics: Employment Fraud, Illegal Immigration, E-Verify

There Is No Evidence that Population Growth Drives per Capita Economic Growth in Developed Economies

Topics: Population Projections

Trump Didn’t Kill the Senate Border Security Deal — the Deal's Provisions Did

Topics: Biden Border Crisis, Politics

Why Have Asylum Grant Rates Been Plummeting?

Hint: Elections (and election campaigns) have consequences

Topics: Asylum

Bloomberg Investigates the ‘Elaborate Charade’ Known as Day 1 CPT

Controversial practice facilitates foreign students staying in the United States through employment

Topics: Optional Practical Training Program (OPT), Foreign Students, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

Immigration and Social Security Numbers: A Primer

Topics: Social Security, REAL ID Act and Secure Identification

Hearing on ‘Abuses of U.S. Immigration Policies and Resulting Impacts on Americans’

Before the Task Force on Defending Constitutional Rights and Exposing Institutional Abuses, Of the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

Topics: Immigration Parole, Temporary Protected Status (TPS)

Excerpt: The Rocha Spy Case: Espionage and Conflicted Loyalty

The Trump administration must require that dual-national officials renounce any second citizenship as a condition of holding a security clearance.

Topics: National Security, Dual Citizenship

An Overview of the Criminal Grounds of Inadmissibility and Deportability

It’s safer to just not break the law, especially if you’re a visitor to this country

Topics: Criminal Aliens

ICE Screws Up in Case of ‘Activist Biden Judge’ in Rhode Island

Hate the game, not the player — especially one with lifetime tenure and contempt power

Topics: Criminal Aliens, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

Fact Sheet on Haitian Immigrants in the United States

Topics: Current Numbers

How FEMA spending on migrants exploded under Biden

Topics: Costs of Immigration

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)