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Unrestricted Immigration Is a Real Problem

Pretending it’s not happening will only make the consequences worse

Topics: Biden Border Crisis

Working-Age, but Not Working, 1960 to 2025

Documenting the decades-long increase in the share of the U.S.-born not in the labor force and its implications for immigration policy

Topics: Unemployment/Underemployment Rates and Immigration

‘Alligator Alcatraz’ — The Alien Has the Key to His Jail Cell

Topics: Florida, Illegal Immigration

Immigration — Rules and Reality

Topics: Assimilation and Citizenship

Illegal, but Not Undocumented

Identity Theft, Document Fraud, and Illegal Employment

Topics: Tax Fraud, Driver's License Fraud, Social Security Fraud, Employment Fraud, Supreme Court Decisions on Immigration Policy, Wages, Jobs, and Poverty, Illegal Immigration

A Tale of Two Senators

Rob Portman, Chuck Schumer, and Three Decades of Congressional Failure in Immigration Enforcement

Topics: Immigration History, Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act (S.744)

The High Cost of Immigrant Welfare

Topics: Costs of Immigration, Welfare

SW Border Apprehensions Drop to Their Lowest Level Under Biden

It likely won’t last, so the administration should enjoy it while it can

Topics: Biden Border Crisis, Current Numbers

ICE Issues Dismal FY 2024 Annual Report

A picture of what happens when you don’t take the immigration laws seriously

Topics: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

New United States Population Projections

The impact of immigration on future U.S. population size

Topics: Population Projections

Supreme Court to Hear Major Birthright Citizenship Case

Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 247

Parsing Immigration Policy

Topics: Supreme Court Decisions on Immigration Policy

Births to Illegal Immigrants and Long-Term Temporary Visitors

Preliminary estimates

Topics: Trump 2025 Executive Actions, Birthright Citizenship

BIA Issues (Unique and Complicated) DACA Order

Ignore the hype — the Board is simply telling immigration judges that they must comply with a Biden-era rule before terminating cases involving aliens with ‘deferred action’

Topics: Immigration Courts, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)

Colorado Sheriff and Prosecutor Contest State Law Requiring that U Visas Be Rubber-Stamped

Topics: Colorado, Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)

Immigration-Related Statistics, 1993

Topics: Population and Environment, Current Numbers

The Open Door

How Militant Islamic Terrorists Entered the United States, 1993-2001

Topics: National Security, 9/11 Terrorist Attacks, Immigration History, Illegal Immigration, Criminal Aliens, Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

Sanctuary for Illegal Alien Drunk Drivers?

Topics: Sanctuary Cities

DHS Proposes to Reform the H-1B Selection Process to Favor Higher-Paid Workers

CIS submitted a comment supporting ending the purely random lottery and provided alternative measures to strengthen the program’s integrity

Topics: H-1B Nonimmigrant Visa Progam

DHS Chief Floats Idea of Closing Air ‘Ports of Entry’ in Sanctuaries

Former MMA fighter and plumber threatens to clear enforcement clogs by hitting opponents right in the terminal

Topics: Sanctuary Cities, Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

BIA: Consider Aliens’ Crimes, Not Just their Convictions, in Exercising the AG’s Discretion

A brief history of statutory largesse and statutory complexities

Topics: Immigration Courts, Criminal Aliens

Are Immigrants Less Willing to Report Crime?

Data from the National Crime Victimization Survey says “No.”

Topics: State and Local Policy, Sanctuary Cities

The Fertility of Immigrants and Natives in the United States, 2023

Topics: Population Projections

About that July Bureau of Labor Statistics Jobs Data . . .

Has the foreign-born population really dropped by nearly two million since March? That’s what FRED says

Topics: Current Numbers

The Curious Debate Over ‘Self-Deportation’

Why is it so hard to believe 1.6 million illegal aliens have left under Trump II?

Topics: Media Coverage of the Center for Immigration Studies, Illegal Immigration

Miami: A Failure of the Assimilation Model

Two-thirds of residents speak Spanish at home, including half of the native-born in their 20s

Topics: Florida, Assimilation and Citizenship