Share Tweet Forward What's Happening at the Center Last Wednesday, Andrew Arthur testified on the current crisis in the immigration courts before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship. The courts, which face a crushing backlog of cases, have been inadequately funded and have suffered from a lack of appropriate guidance and oversight for decades. They have borne the consequences of various, and shifting, executive-branch immigration policies and priorities, as well as loopholes created by statute and poorly reasoned judicial opinions that have encouraged migrants to enter and remain in the United States illegally. Arthur explains that the Trump administration reforms have begun to ease these tremendous burdens on the courts. And he warns against abandoning the current system entirely to create an independent Article I immigration court. A video of his statement and a link to his entire lengthy and detailed testimony is available here.    The Center has testified before Congress more than 130 times, more than any private group on either side of the immigration debate.    Featured Posts Birth Tourism: Facts and Recommendations  By CIS The State Department has announced new rules to address birth tourism, which is the controversial practice of entering the United States to give birth so that the child will acquire U.S. citizenship. The prevailing interpretation of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting nearly all those born here U.S. citizenship (and the ability to pass it on to their children and to sponsor relatives for green cards) has become a magnet and spawned a lucrative birth tourism industry, attracting families from all over the world. Human-Smuggling 'Pollers' Bypassing Mexico's national Guard Deployment Despite Its Relative Success By Todd Bensman The Mexican deployment of 6,000 national guard troops undergirds a broader policy response demanded of Mexico by President Donald Trump, under threat of crippling trade tariffs, to end the migration tsunami that put nearly a million Central Americans inside the United States during 2018-2019. More Proof Walls Work: Mexico, DHS Close Huge Border Tunnel By Andrew R. Arthur U.S. Customs and Border Protection revealed that the agency and its "partners" discovered a tunnel that ran more than three-quarters of a mile from Tijuana, Mexico, to Otay Mesa, Calif. That tunnel undermines (no pun intended) claims that infrastructure along the border doesn't work. In fact, it has literally forced criminal organizations underground to push their illicit and deadly products into the United States. Another Migrant Caravan from El Salvador Prepares to Head to the U.S.  By Jason Pena Mexican immigration officials said another migrant caravan from El Salvador (not the previous one) is slated for departure on January 31. Like the earlier caravans, migrants will travel to Mexico with the objective of reaching the United States. Several deported Honduran migrants told authorities they would return in the new caravan, named the "Devil's Caravan". More Blog Posts Obscure DHS Statistical Set Reveals Decline of Marginal Colleges Kudos to Jason DeParle for His New Book on Immigration Video: 'Extra-Continental' Migration to Southern Border Big Tech Unwittingly Creates Argument Against OPT Program Mexico Deports More than 2,000 Caravan Migrants to Honduras  Ask for Something, Offer Nothing: California's Way of Struggling Out of the bag It Put Itself Into Peru Creates Task Force to Curb Rise in Venezuelan Migrant Crime Using Bonds to Reinforce the New Borth Tourism Restrictions  Video: Why the 2020 Caravans Threaten the Fragile Success of Trump's Border Policies   Barley a Year after Global Compacts, UN is Already Trying to Limit national Sovereignty over Migration Minor Migration Memos: Iran's Treaty Investors and New Jersey's H-4 Students  Video Center for Immigration Studies National Security Fellow, Todd Bensman, explains the rising prevalence of 'extra-continental' migrants in southern Mexico. Visit Website Copyright © 2020 Center for Immigration Studies, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Center for Immigration Studies 1629 K St., NW, Suite 600 Washington, DC 20006 USA Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list. View this e-mail in your browser. This is the Center for Immigration Studies CISNews e-mail list.