Congressional Testimony
The Biden Border Crisis: Exploitation of Unaccompanied Alien Children
Statement of Jessica Vaughan before the House Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security and Enforcement
Excerpt: There is no question that the system for processing minors who cross illegally is dysfunctional, and has been for some time, and needs to be fixed. However, merely improving the processing and placement of UACs will not address the cause of the problem; it would only make a bad policy just slightly more safe for a still endless flow of unaccompanied minors. Instead, Congress must focus on fixing the main cause of the problem – the legal loopholes and judicial rulings that force and enable the government to operate a massive catch and release program for illegally arriving alien children.
Link to full written testimony
|
|
Panel
Gatekeeper Countries: Key to Stopping Illegal Immigration
Participants
Viktor Marsai: Director, Budapest-based Migration Research Institute and Visiting Fellow, Center for Immigration Studies
Nikolett Pénzváltó: Director of Research, Migration Research Institute
Christopher Landau: former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
Mark Krikorian: Executive Director, Center for Immigration Studies
Panel Video
Panel Transcript
|
|
Commentary
Biden to Aliens: Don’t Break the Law — We’ll Do It for You!
By Mark Krikorian
National Review, April 28, 2023
Excerpt: The plan is lawlessness atop lawlessness, all the way down. A lot of the details are still unclear, but the fact sheet on Thursday’s announcement by Secretary of State Blinken and Secretary of Homeland Security Mayorkas gives the general picture. In short, the Biden administration is trying to manage effectively unlimited immigration, but in such a way as to minimize bad press. The tenor of the plan — as with the administration’s whole approach to immigration — is focused entirely on accommodating the wishes of foreigners, rather than enforcing the immigration limits enacted by the elected representatives of the American people.
Why the White House Departure of Susan Rice Cements an Ominous Near Future for US Border Security
By Todd Bensman
Townhall, April 27, 2023
Excerpt: The departures of Rice and Klain all but cement a coming new human tidal wave over the southern border – the all-but-certain result of the scheduled May 11 end of the pandemic-era Title 42 instant expulsion measure – that will wash over America this time with no chance of meaningful opposition from more sober, if self-interested, minds.
|
|
Podcast
Congress Responds to Biden’s Broken Border
Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 102
Host: Mark Krikorian
Guests:
* Andrew R. Arthur, CIS Resident Fellow in Law and Policy; served as a Counsel on the House Judiciary Committee, where he performed oversight of immigration issues
* George Fishman, CIS Senior Legal Fellow; served for two decades as the Republican Chief Counsel for the House Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee with jurisdiction over immigration
|
|
Featured Posts
What ‘Lawful Pathways’?
By Elizabeth Jacobs
Excerpt: The Biden administration is telling migrants there will be consequences if they cross the border without taking advantage of the “lawful pathways” they’ve created to allow inadmissible aliens into the United States — but we don’t see anything lawful about the new options.
Cooking the Border Books
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: The Biden administration has released at least 2,020,522 Southwest Border migrants, based on the information publicly available. Now you can add to that total an additional 25,470 illegal entrants who were apprehended in March at the U.S.-Mexico line who we know were set free into the United States — though the real total likely tens of thousands more, as the administration cooks the books to hide its ongoing migrant disaster.
|
What to Expect When Title 42 Ends on May 11
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: Post-Title 42, expect some limited expansion of CBP detention and expedited removal at the Southwest border, a few migrant families to be detained, and a whole lot of chaos. The chaos won’t end until both Congress and the administration get serious about border security — and they haven’t gotten serious yet.
Remote Hearings Help Courts Tackle Backlogs, but Raise Legal Questions
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: The issue of which U.S. circuit court has jurisdiction over cases in which the alien or the immigration judge — or both — appear remotely via “video teleconferencing” may sound arcane, but it's going to matter a lot once courts confront the tsunami of illegal migrants that's expected when Title 42 ends on May 11.
|
|
|
Jessica Vaughan, CIS Director of Policy Studies, discusses trafficking and smuggling of illegal alien children to the U.S.
|
|
|
|
|
