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Congressional Testimony
Securing Our Border, Saving Our National Parks ([link removed])
Statement of Julie Axelrod before the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on Natural Resources, October 18, 2023

Excerpt: Upon taking office the Biden Administration carried out a number of policies, halting construction of the border wall, ending Remain in Mexico, and releasing border crossers into the interior, policies described by a district judge in Florida as “akin to posting a flashing ‘Come in, We’re Open” sign on the southern border.” Predictably, a flood of migration followed—by some estimates 5 to 6 million foreign nationals have entered the country illegally since 2021.

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Reports
Temporarily Suspend Asylum by Suspending Entry? Commentators have called for it, but can it be done? ([link removed])
By George Fishman, October 17, 2023
Excerpt: There is growing recognition that the gargantuan 2.6 million case backlog in our immigration courts (largely generated by the Biden administration's disastrous policies) is crippling the courts. Calls are even coming from commentators who cannot be described as restrictionist to suspend the admission of all asylum seekers crossing the border illegally until the backlog can be shrunk.

The 225-year-old ‘Alien Enemies Act’ Needs to Come Out of Retirement ([link removed])
By George Fishman. October 10, 2023
Excerpt: This report highlights the potential applicability of our nation’s oldest extant immigration enforcement statute, the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) of 1798. Can this 225-year-old statute address contemporary security challenges, specifically the issues of foreign criminal organizations – gangs and cartels - operating within the U.S., as well as students from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) gathering military-valuable intellectual property on American college campuses?
Commentary
Worse Than Illegal ([link removed])
By Jason Richwine
American Mind, October 19, 2023
Excerpt: None of this has to happen. American culture need not be transformed. The political balance need not be upset. We don’t have to add more clients of the welfare state, nor must we import low-skill workers to avoid tackling our own social problems. We do have to recognize, however, that the Biden border crisis is not damaging merely because it’s illegal. Even legal immigration, when it occurs on a large scale, can have many of the same long-term consequences.

Relieved Residents of Texas Illegal Immigrant Town Love Gov. Abbott’s New State Police Surge ([link removed])
By Todd Bensman
Townhall, October 19, 2023
Excerpt: Something new besides explosive growth is happening in this Texas enclave of some 50,000-75,000, perhaps the largest illegal immigrant settlement in America hundreds of miles inland from the completely overrun southern border: Policing.
Podcast
Is the U.S. Legal Immigration System Outdated? ([link removed])
Host: Jessica Vaughan
Guest: Philip Linderman, CIS board member and retired DOS senior foreign service officer
Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 127

Unaccompanied and Unsafe: Biden Policies Facilitate Exploitation and Abuse of Child Migrants ([link removed])
Host: Jessica Vaughan
Guest: Tara Lee Rodas, Health and Human Resources
Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 126
Featured Posts
Blockbuster House Report Reveals How Badly Biden’s Broken Our Immigration System ([link removed])
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: The administration has only removed about 230 aliens CBP encountered and placed into removal proceedings per month. At that rate, DHS won’t get around to removing all 4.7 million who have come here illegally until sometime in the year 3722.

H-1B Lottery News — More than Half the Winners Say ‘No Thanks’ ([link removed])
By David North
Excerpt: Currently, the non-returnable fee for entering the lottery is $10. Make that one-way fee $5,000 and many an employer would not file extraneous H-1B petitions.
What Specific Actions Can President Biden Take to Fight the Sheer Evil of Hamas? ([link removed])
By George Fishman
Excerpt: Last summer, the Biden administration weakened federal law, deciding that it is OK for an alien to provide “insignificant material support” and “limited material support" to terrorists.

Border Lessons from the 9/11 Report and DHS’s ‘Homeland Threat Assessment 2024’ ([link removed])
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: Head to the Southwest border and it’s not even September 10, 2001, again. It’s May 27, 1924, the day before the Border Patrol was formed. Pancho Villa faced tougher resistance when he rode into Columbus, Ariz. in March 1916.
More Blog Posts
* GAO Reports Much Lack of Enforcement on E-Verify ([link removed])
* Utah: The Reddest (and Stealthiest) Sanctuary State ([link removed])
* USCIS Loosens the EB-5 Rules for Two Classes of EB-5 Investors ([link removed])
* Congress Should Look Into DHS’s ‘Homeland Threat Assessment 2024’ ([link removed])
* Will the Surge at the Border Lower the Use of the H-2B Program? ([link removed])
* Settlement in ‘Family Separation’ Case: Bring a Kid, and Avoid Felony Prosecution ([link removed])
* ICE Loses Cooperation with Jails in Utah, Nebraska, and Nevada over Burdensome Audits ([link removed])
* CFPB, DOJ Issue Confusing, but Ominous, Warning to Creditors Who Deny Aliens Credit ([link removed])
* Border Deaths Highlight Inhumanity of Biden's ‘Progressive’ Migrant Release Policies
* Yet Another Parole Program to Allow Migrants with Family in the U.S. to Enter Without Visas ([link removed])

Videos
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Todd Bensman discusses the mass illegal immigration crisis with Tucker Carlson.
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The Center for Immigration Studies embedded with the Texas military and state police, led by Texas Rangers, when they reclaimed Fronton Island from Mexican cartels. This 170-acre island, located in the middle of the Rio Grande river, had long served as a haven for criminal activities, including drug smuggling, human trafficking, and violence against both American law enforcement and Fronton residents. The island’s uncertain ownership had enabled the cartels to operate with impunity, allowing them to evade law enforcement on both sides of the border while stashing drugs, weapons, and cash.

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