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Report
Parole with Benefits: A million Biden parolees march toward a multi-billion-dollar welfare ‘parole payday’ ([link removed])
By George Fishman
CIS Report, April 13, 2023
Excerpt: The Biden administration has granted parole to over one million aliens in just over two years, including over 800,000 inadmissible aliens the administration invited into the U.S. or apprehended at the border and released – and it’s just getting started.
Commentary
"Is there a 'border crisis'?" ([link removed])
By Mark Krikorian
Decatur Daily (TN Valley), April 17, 2023
Excerpt: Over two years, Biden has released 2 million migrants into the country, few of whom will ever leave, effectively creating his own lawless immigration system. That means the border crisis is creating not only a spending crisis and a fentanyl crisis but also a brewing constitutional crisis.

Defining Away Illegal Immigration ([link removed])
By Mark Krikorian
National Review, April 12, 2023
Excerpt: But the unlawful use of parole is just the tool. The policy served by that tool is one of de facto unlimited immigration. This administration believes that statutory limits on immigration are illegitimate, and it will undermine those limits if there are more people who want to come here than can be legally admitted. As Byron York put it a few months ago, “Republicans want policies that will stop, or at least dramatically reduce, the flow. Democrats want policies that will accommodate the flow.”

Al Qaeda fighter’s plot to smuggle in Bush assassins shows how our southern-border chaos entices terrorists ([link removed])
By Todd Bensman
New York Post, April 13, 2023
Excerpt: Lost in general media disinterest in terrorism cases that don’t involve white supremacists is that this FBI investigation exposed — in rare, multi-colored detail — that serious Islamic terrorist operatives outside the country see the overwhelmed southern border with Mexico as a breachable route into America.
Podcast
Obstacles to Meaningful Immigration Policy Change ([link removed])
Host: Mark Krikorian
Guest: Theo Wold, Idaho Solicitor General
Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 100
Featured Posts
Breaking News: Biden Administration to Apply Immigration Law (Kind of) ([link removed])
By Andrew R. Arthur
The good news is Biden’s DHS has rediscovered expedited removal, the tool Congress created decades ago to secure the border. The bad news is that the department is making that process as “cumbersome” as the very flawed scheme it replaced in 1996. If aliens can pay smugglers thousands of dollars to bring them here, they can pay lawyers to be ready to represent them when they arrive, without forcing taxpayers to wait and foot the bill.

New USCIS Guidance Highlights the Problem with Categorical Parole ([link removed])
By Elizabeth Jacobs
While CIS strongly supports adjusting U.S. immigration policy to a merit-based immigration system, CIS explained that the creation of a categorical parole program directly conflicts with statute and Congress’ intent to limit DHS’s use of parole to infrequent and exceptional circumstances.
The Impact of Immigration on Social Security and Medicare: A Conceptual Primer ([link removed])
By Jason Richwine
Despite oft-heard claims that immigration will bolster Social Security and Medicare, the reality is more complicated. Much of the confusion stems from conflating the impacts of different policies. Toleration of illegal immigration, amnesty for illegal immigrants, and legal immigration are distinct policy choices that require separate analyses.

DHS Announces Agreement to Stem Illegal Darien Gap Migration
By Andrew R. Arthur
DHS published a “Trilateral Joint Statement” yesterday with Panama and Colombia detailing an agreement between the three countries to stem illegal migration through the notorious “Darien Gap”. It won't work, but will cost American taxpayers millions.
More Blog Posts
* South of the Border, West of the Sun ([link removed])
* New Darien Gap Campaign Is Not the Solution ([link removed])
* Employers of Alien Workers Caught in Different (and Intricate) Visa Abuses ([link removed])
* Biden Is Destroying the Immigration Courts ([link removed])
* CNN: Asylum Officers Push Back Against Biden Border Proposals ([link removed])
* A Real Witches’ Brew: Vietnamese Seek to Use Cryptocurrency for EB-5 ([link removed])
* Status Quo Prevails — Yet Again — in Two H-1B Cases ([link removed])
* Biden Administration to ‘Pause’ Radical Asylum Officer Rule ([link removed])
* Illegal Immigrants Ante Portas: Italy Declares a State of Emergency ([link removed])

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