Reports
America’s Public Schools: Canaries in the Coal Mine of the Biden Border Crisis
By Todd Bensman, April 3, 2023
Excerpt: School districts have been taking in every kid who shows up no matter their numbers, unfunded new costs, and hardships associated with pressure on educators to maintain high academic scoring. For a glimpse into what those kinds of hardships look like under the pressure of the Biden border crisis, parents throughout America whose children attend public schools need look no farther than Liberty County, Texas, and its Cleveland Independent School District (CISD), some 50 miles northeast of Houston.
Estimating the Impact of Immigration on U.S. Population Growth
By Steven A. Camarota and Karen Zeigler, March 27, 2023
Excerpt: This analysis of Census Bureau data examines immigration’s impact on U.S. population growth over the last 20 years. The report finds that immigration accounts for an increasing share of population growth in recent years, primarily due to very high levels of immigration coupled with a decline in natural increase among U.S. residents.
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Congressional Testimony
Biden’s Growing Border Crisis: Death, Drugs, and Disorder on the Northern Border
Statement of Andrew R. Arthur
Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability, Committee on Homeland Security
Excerpt: Lost amidst the chaos at the Southwest border is a burgeoning surge of migrants at the Northern
border—the international boundary between the United States and Canada. While the number of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Northern border encounters is low compared to the Southwest border, what is happening at the Northern border is still troubling— particularly in the
Border Patrol’s Swanton (Vt.) Sector. Link to full written testimony
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Commentary
Where Have You Gone, Cesar Chavez? Your Hometown’s Border Turns Its Lonely Eyes to You
By Mark Krikorian
National Review, March 31, 2023
Excerpt: Seeing the border at Chavez’s hometown highlights how bad the situation really is. Joe Biden’s La Invitación to the world’s potential migrants has created an unprecedented flow of illegal aliens. Once a relatively sleepy stretch of the border, Yuma has seen an explosion in illegal crossings; February’s 10,000 total “encounters” (the Biden crowd’s term for arrests) by the Border Patrol in the Yuma Sector were ten times higher than the pre-Covid February 2020 number.
House Republicans Demand Hidden Statistics on Secretive Biden Border “CBP-One” Admittance Program
By Todd Bensman
Townhall, March 27, 2023
Excerpt: As senior Biden administration officials run victory laps over seemingly sharply declining Border Patrol apprehensions of illegal alien Southwest Border crossings, no one has bothered to wheel out the one stumbling block that would face-plant those politicians: statistical data the administration has hidden away somewhere.
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Podcast
Vignettes from a Former Border Patrol Agent
Host: Mark Krikorian
Guest: Paul Eberle
Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 98
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Featured Posts
Biden’s DOJ Doesn’t Appeal Court’s Blockbuster Order on Parole
By Andrew R. Arthur
Given its absence of transparency, it’s never been clear whether the administration is simply bumbling from disaster to disaster at the border, or whether nameless apparatchiks are playing an elaborate game of Tetris with the millions of migrants who have entered illegally since Joe Biden took office. Either makes sense.
High-Tech Speaks Out of Both Sides of Its Mouth on Labor Needs
By David North
The industry, working within existing governmental systems, is acting rationally, if narrowly and selfishly, in its own interests, while the Biden administration is bowing toward the industry’s whim, selling out American workers.
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The Canadian Policy Behind the Surge of Illegals – and Mexican Cartel Operatives – at the Northern Border
By Todd Bensman
The Canadian border is back in the news, with headlines proclaiming that illegal immigration there has suddenly spiked more than 800 percent in one busy sector recent months. Amid a fresh outbreak of “what-to-do-doism”, the Biden administration redeployed 25 Border Patrol agents from the besieged southern border to the far northeast corner of America’s border with Canada, the Border Patrol's Swanton Sector (including New Hampshire, Vermont, and part of New York).
CIS Submits Public Comment on New Asylum Rule
By Elizabeth Jacobs
The rule would impose a regulatory presumption against asylum eligibility for any asylum applicant who entered the United States unlawfully without first receiving parole from DHS or scheduling their arrival at a port of entry using DHS’s new CBP One mobile phone app.
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Mark Krikorian, at the border near Yuma, AZ, discussing the processing of illegal entrants. More videos from the CIS 2023 Border Tour here.
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