What's Happening at the Center
In his detailed analysis of the New Way Forward Act (H.R. 5383), Andrew Arthur reveals Democrats' immigration policy plans if they ever regain control of the White House and Congress. H.R. 5383, which currently has 44 co-sponsors, including the vice-chairwoman of the immigration subcommittee, would effectively eviscerate immigration enforcement both at the border and in the interior of the United States. Among other things, it would all but eliminate detention, and impose new burdens on our already overtaxed immigration courts. It would limit the criminal grounds of removal so significantly that only the most extreme offenses would render criminal aliens removable, and would also expand the relief available to the few aliens who would still be removable on criminal grounds. It would make the amendments to the criminal grounds of removal and relief retroactive, so that even criminal aliens who have been removed from the United States, but who would not have been removable had that law been in effect, could apply to have their cases reopened or reconsidered. And it would require DHS to pay to fly those criminal aliens who have been removed and who would be eligible for reopening or reconsideration back to the United States — which would result in dangerous criminal aliens being returned at taxpayer expense back to this country to commit more crimes. The bill represents the radical turn that the Democratic Party has taken on immigration.
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A Potential Sanctuary Train Wreck in the Offing
By Dan Cadman
The most recent move by the federal government is the decision by DHS to detail Border Patrol agents to work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement in identifying and apprehending aliens who have been released by police despite the filing of detainers, and over the objections of ICE agents. They will be working specifically in key sanctuary cities all over the country, including of course San Francisco, site of the infamous Kate Steinle killing.
Border Patrol Apprehensions Drop for Eighth Straight Month in January
By Andrew R. Arthur
On February 4, 2020, AP reported that the number of U.S. Customs and Border Protection border apprehensions dropped in January for the eighth month in a row, down from 144,116 in May 2019 to "about 36,000". This is the lowest number of apprehensions in almost two years, and represents a 75 percent drop over that nine-month period.
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Roundup: Infoys Moves Ahead in UK, ACICS Gets Pounded by USA Today, and SEC Gets More EB-5 Disgorgements
By David North
There have been interesting recent developments in three quite different immigration-related stories that we have been following. The son-in-law of the president of the huge (H-1B absorbing) Indian outsourcing company Infosys. A college-accrediting entity that we have often criticized in the past for its low standards. And the Securities and Exchange Commission.
A Tweeter Misses the mark in Diparaging USCIS's Public Charge Guidance
By Dan Cadman
A correspondent to my Center for Immigration Studies email account sent me a copy of a tweet by an individual commenting about the recent policy guidance promulgated by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in how its officers are to consider applying the recent regulatory changes to enforcement of the "public charge" provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
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Mark Krikorian, the Center's Executive Director, discusses the change in Joe Biden's immigration policy stance, as well as that of the Democratic party in general.
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Mark Krikorian discusses immigration's effect on the demographics and politics of Nevada.
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