Commentary
Biden Secretly Has Let 221,456 Migrants Fly Into the U.S. in Past Year
By Todd Bensman
New York Post, September 28, 2023
Excerpt: Illegal migrants aren’t just overwhelming the border — President Biden is flying them secretly to airports around the country. More than 200,000 people from four countries have landed over the past year, according to data obtained by the Center for Immigration Studies through a Freedom of Information Act request.
Biden lies that he’s doing ‘all he can’ at border while doing nothing
By Andrew R. Arthur
New York Post, September 25, 2023
Excerpt: The administration continues to argue its migrant surge is being driven by “hemispheric conditions” such as “food insecurity” and “climate change,” even after federal Judge Kent Wetherell held in March that while such “geopolitical factors” have contributed to the surge, officials’ contentions “that the crisis at the border is not largely of their own making because of their more lenient detention policies is divorced from reality.”
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Podcast
Work Authorization Expansion: Attracts and Embeds Illegal Immigration Population in U.S. Society
Host: Mark Krikorian
Guest: Elizabeth Jacobs, Director of Regulatory Affairs and Policy, CIS
Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 124
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Featured Blog Posts
The Highest Refugee Admission in Three Decades
By Nayla Rush
Excerpt: On Friday, September 29, the Biden administration announced that it was setting the refugee ceiling for FY 2024 at 125,000 (no change from the last couple of years). Except that, this time, the ceiling is expected to be met in full (which could lead to the highest admission numbers since FY 1993, when 119,050 refugees were admitted under a 132,000 ceiling).
New Records Show Biden’s DHS Accepting 99.99 Percent of Recent Aliens Applying for Entry Using CBP One
By Todd Bensman
Excerpt: DHS vetting resulted in only 698 rejections out of 225,000 invited to cross the border into the United States, according to new records obtained by the Center for Immigration Studies through ongoing FOIA litigation.
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DHS Extends the Validity Period for Work Authorization Documents for Migrants and Other Categories of Immigrants
By Elizabeth Jacobs
Excerpt: These changes are designed to allow migrants to gain access to work authorization more quickly, and theoretically, pose less of a strain on state and local budgets by allowing migrants to provide for themselves.
CBP’s August Numbers Reveal Border in Freefall, with a Massive Family, Child Migrant Surge
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: CBP’s nationwide August alien encounter numbers are the worst in history in every possible way — total encounters, Southwest port encounters, Border Patrol family apprehensions — with increasing numbers of kids showing up alone, widening gaps for cartel exploitation, and the White House’s responses all failing.
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