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Special Issues

A Conversation with Francis Cissna

USCIS Director on legal immigration challenges

Topics: Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)

Center for Immigration Studies Sues USCIS for DACA Information

Topics: Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)

Analysis of Paul Ryan’s Amnesty Bill

Topics: Illegal Immigration, Amnesty and Comprehensive Immigration Reform

Immigration Newsmaker: A Conversation with ICE Acting Director Tom Homan

Top immigration law enforcement officer reflects on his career promoting public safety

Topics: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

Labor Force Participation Still Well Below Pre-Recession Levels

Low unemployment rate overlooks those who've dropped out of the job market entirely

Topics: Unemployment/Underemployment Rates and Immigration

Immigration Newsmaker: A Conversation with EOIR Director James McHenry

Tackling the Immigration Court Backlog

Topics: Immigration Courts

Panel: Should States Be Able to Opt Out of the Refugee Resettlement Program?

Topics: Refugees

The Senate DACA Debate

Topics: DREAM Act, Senate Legislation, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)

Two CIS Staff Members Give Testimony Before House Subcommittees

Book Panel: How Immigration Reform Failed at the Worksite

Lessons for Today

Topics: Illegal Immigration, E-Verify, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

Border Wall
CIS Investigates Terror Travel Threat in Panama and Costa Rica
Deferred Enforced Departure (DED)
Chain Migration
Migrant Caravans
-Migrant Caravans - National Security Threat
-Migrant Caravans - Credible Fear Loophole
-Migrant Caravans - Mexico/UNHCR Plan
RAISE Act (S.354)
Immigration Courts
Immigration Maps
Partnership For A New American Economy
Remittances
Eugene Katz Award
Fraud and Immigration
-Document Fraud
--Tax Fraud
--Driver's License Fraud
--Social Security Fraud
--Employment Fraud
-Visa Fraud
--Marriage Fraud
--Tourist Visa Fraud
--Student Visa Fraud
--Diversity Visa Lottery Fraud
-Voter Fraud
Unsecured Border Series
Supreme Court Decisions on Immigration Policy
Migration Policy Institute (MPI)
UnidosUS
Black Americans
Canada
How to Break the Immigration Policy Impasse
Costs of Immigration
-Welfare
--Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
-Social Security
-Health Care
-Wages, Jobs, and Poverty
--Unemployment/Underemployment Rates and Immigration
Education and Foreign Students
-Foreign Students
-Education
National Security
-9/11 Terrorist Attacks
-Faisal Shahzad: The Times Square Bomber
Politics
-The 2012 Presidental Election
-Onyango Obama
-Hispanic Voters
Population and Environment
Immigration History
Religion
-Catholics
-Evangelicals
-Jews
-Mormons
State and Local Policy
-Sanctuary Cities
-Alabama
-Alaska
-Arizona
--Arizona's Enforcement Law S.B. 1070
-California
--Los Angeles County
-Colorado
-Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands (CNMI)
-District of Columbia
-Florida
-Georgia
-Illinois
--Chicago, Cook County
-Maryland
-Massachusetts
-Michigan
-Minnesota
-Mississippi
-Nevada
-New Jersey
-New Mexico
-New York
-North Carolina
-Ohio
-Oregon
-Pennsylvania
-South Carolina
-Texas
-Utah
--Utah Amnesty Law (HB116)
-Virginia
-Washington
Current Numbers
-Immigrant Profile Series
-Population Projections
-Hispanic Voter Projections
-Unemployment Rate Series
--State Level Employment Data
Polls and Surveys
Media Coverage of the Center for Immigration Studies
-C-Span Videos
-TV Interviews
-Radio Interviews
-Outside Events
Federal Immigration Legislation and Executive Action
-DREAM Act
-House Legislation
--House Legislation 2013-14
---Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act (SAFE Act - H.R.2278)
--House Legislation 2015-16
---Secure Our Borders First Act of 2015 (H.R.399)
---Legal Workforce Act (H.R.1147)
-Senate Legislation
--Senate Legislation 2013-14
---Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act (S.744)
--Senate Legislation 2015-16
---Immigration Innovation Act of 2015 (I Squared Act - S.153)
-Executive Actions
--2014 Executive Action Amnesty
--Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
Illegal Immigration
-Influx of Unaccompanied Minors
-Amnesty and Comprehensive Immigration Reform
--The 2013-14 Immigration Debate
--Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) (1986)
-Attrition and Enforcement
-In-State Tuition
Media Coverage of Immigration Policy
-Washington Post Coverage of Immigration Policy
--Department of Preening Editorials
-The New York Times Coverage of Immigration
-Univision and Telemundo Coverage of Immigration
U.S. Department of State
-Refugees and Asylum
--Asylum
--Refugees
-Bureau of Consular Affairs
-Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration
-Visa Waiver Program
-Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI)
Assimilation and Citizenship
-Birthright Citizenship
-Dual Citizenship
Criminal Aliens
-Gangs
Cuba
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
-REAL ID Act and Secure Identification
-Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
--Temporary Protected Status (TPS)
--Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE)
--Legal Immigration
---Legal Permanent Residence (LPR) (Green Cards)
----Family Reunification
----Employment Visas
-----EB-5 Permanent Investor Visa Program
----Diversity Visa Lottery
--Nonimmigrant Visas
---Guestworkers
----H-1B Nonimmigrant Visa Progam
-----IBM and H-1Bs
-----2015 Disney Layoffs
----H-2A Nonimmigrant Visa Program
-----AgJOBS and Farmworkers
----H-2B Nonimmigrant Visa Progam
----J-1 Nonimmigrant Visa Program
----L-1 Nonimmigrant Visa Program
----R-1 Nonimmigrant Visa Program
--E-Verify
-Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
--Secure Border Initiative (SBI/SBINet)
--Increasing the Number of Border Patrol Agents
-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
--Secure Communities Program
--287(g) Program
-US VISIT and EXIT System
LEAPS.TV Web Programs
Mexico
-Matricula Consular
Pew Hispanic Center
Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)
The Government Accountability Office (GAO)
Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC)

Press Release

USCIS Director on legal immigration challenges

Top immigration law enforcement officer reflects on his career promoting public safety

Low unemployment rate overlooks those who've dropped out of the job market entirely

Tackling the Immigration Court Backlog

Lessons for Today