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Share Tweet Share Report Mapping the Impact of Immigration on Public Schools By Steven A. Camarota, Bryan Griffith, and Karen Zeigler, June 20, 2023 Excerpt: This analysis merges Census Bureau data with Google Maps API to provide a visual representation of immigration’s (legal and illegal together) impact on public schools at the local level based on the 2,351 Census Bureau-designated Public Use Microdata Areas (PUMAs). Each PUMA very roughly includes seven high schools on average, which allows the most detailed look at the local level with public-use Census Bureau data. Podcast Immigration Roundup: “Temporary” Protected Status and Kamala Harris Facilitated Child Labor Host: Mark Krikorian Guests: Jon Feere, Director of Investigations at the Center for Immigration Studies Elizabeth Jacobs, Director of Regulatory Affairs and Policy at the Center for Immigration Studies Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 110 From ESL Teacher to Immigration Enforcement Activist Host: Mark Krikorian Guest: Joe Guzzardi, syndicated columnist writing on immigration policy issues Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 109 Commentary A More Coherent Refugee Policy: There are hidden costs to America’s resettlement programs By Victor Marsai American Conservative, June 14, 2023 Excerpt: The United States and its allies are right to help mitigate human suffering around the world. But to provide protection and support for more people in need, it is Washington’s responsibility to American citizens and the desperate people they help to find cost-effective, local alternatives to expensive resettlement programs. Featured Posts  DHS’s OPT Rule: Contempt for Congress, for American Workers, and for American Students By George Fishman and Julie Axelrod Excerpt: An appeals court ruled last year that DHS’s 2016 OPT rule was not arbitrary and capricious, despite it being a blatant attempt to subvert Congress’ goal of protecting American students. The Crucial Paragraph That Explains All of Biden’s Immigration and Border Policies By Andrew R. Arthur Excerpt: Even if you are a lawfully admitted immigrant with no intention or inclination of naturalizing, the law leaves you alone so long as you don’t commit any major crimes or abandon the country. Try getting that deal in a lot of other countries. ICE Presser on Brazilian Murderer Shows How Vulnerable Biden’s Release Policies Have Left Americans By Andrew R. Arthur Excerpt: The Biden administration is willfully leaving the American people vulnerable to the criminal and terrorist risks posed by the millions of aliens it’s failing to screen and releasing into the United States at the Southwest border. DHS Continues TPS for El Salvador, Honduras, Nepal, and Nicaragua By Elizabeth Jacobs Excerpt: DHS will be rescinding the Trump administration’s terminations of TPS for El Salvador, Honduras, Nepal, and Nicaragua and will be extending these countries’ TPS designations for an additional 18 months but, notably, not “redesignating” them, which would have extended the status to aliens who entered the country after the most recent designation.  More Blog Posts  Five GOP Senators Sign Amicus Brief Asking Supreme Court to Review OPT Case While DOD and the Treasury Strain to Help Ukraine, Is DHS Helping Staff the Russian Army via Deportations? USCIS, a la Orwell, Decides Some Nonimmigrants Are More Equal than Others Biden’s Massive Parole Schemes Have Their Own ‘Kill Switch’ ‘Immigration’ Trails Only the Economy and Crime as Biggest Issue in Reuters/Ipsos Poll Illegal Alien in U.S. Wonders if It’s Better to Head to the Border Was September 11 A ‘One-Off’ Event? How Immigration Trends Impact Life Expectancy — and the Fiscal Results USCIS Relaxes Rules for Employment Authorization Based on ‘Compelling Circumstances’ California Dreamin': Can State Universities Legally Hire Non-Work Authorized Aliens H-1B ‘Work-Arounds’ Bring In More Foreign Workers than the Capped Program DHS Reports Record Number of Overstays in 2022 Biden Admin Rewards Illegal Aliens for Ignoring Court Orders to Go Home Donate Copyright © 2023 Center for Immigration Studies, All rights reserved.  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.