Share Tweet Forward Report In October 2023, the Foreign-Born Share Was the Highest in History At 49.5 million and 15 percent of the U.S. population, immigrants now at record By Steven A. Camarota and Karen Zeigler Excerpt: Since President Biden took office in January 2021 it has increased by 4.5 million — larger than the individual populations of 25 U.S. states. It is very likely that more than half of this increase, 2.5 million, is from new illegal immigration. This recent growth has important implications for everything from the nation’s education and healthcare systems to its physical infrastructure and labor force. Perhaps the most fundamental question these numbers raise is whether America can successfully incorporate and assimilate this many people. Commentary Rapes and deaths along dangerous migrant route are on Biden and his ‘come on in’ border policies By Mark Krikorian New York Post, November 28, 2023 Excerpt: When migrants get to Mexico’s northern border towns they have to contend with both the local smuggling gangs and the larger drug cartels that divide the border region into separate zones of control. Reuters has reported that rapes of migrants this year in the Mexican cities across the Rio Grande from South Texas are the highest ever recorded. End the Asylum Regime By Mark Krikorian National Review, November 22, 2023 Excerpt: Even though the immediate cause of the border crisis is the Biden administration’s abandonment of Trump policies, the ultimate cause is the post–World War II refugee/asylum regime itself. Asylum law has become a threat not just to the U.S. but to all developed countries. Podcast Marriage Fraud: In Search of a Green Card Host: Mark Krikorian Guest: David North, Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 132 Featured Posts Proposed Border Legislation Focuses on Little-Understood 'Withholding of Removal’ By Andrew R. Arthur Excerpt: A new phrase has entered Congress’s debate over the best way to control the illegal entry of migrants into the United States: “withholding of removal”. But the real problem at the border involves the Convention Against Torture. Tucson Sector Goes into Blackout Mode in Face of Migrant Tsunami By Andrew R. Arthur Excerpt: In announcing that Border Patrol would be “pausing” media releases from Tucson sector in the face of a migrant tsunami, Chief Modlin was shedding more sunlight on the effects of the Biden administration’s border policies than he likely expected. Trump’s ‘Extreme’ Plan for ‘Huge’ Alien Detention Camps By George Fishman Excerpt: The virtues of, and the objections to, the Trump plan are the same as those regarding proposals of the commission headed by Carter appointee and former Civil Rights Commission chairman Rev. Theodore Hesburgh. NYC Mayor Pins Blame on City’s Migrant Crisis on Feds By Andrew R. Arthur Excerpt: On Monday night, New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) took to the dais at a town hall on Brooklyn’s Coney Island to address cuts in the city’s budget, necessitated in part on the Southwest border surge that has brought 125,000 illegal migrants to the Big Apple. More Blog Posts Immigration Overtakes Inflation As Biden’s Worst Issue Among Voters in Latest Poll Why Was Ecuador Singled Out for Special Immigration Treatment? What Can America Learn from the Immigration Rules of American Samoa? Another Tale of a Phony Green-Card Marriage Why Were the Thai Guestworker/Hostages Freed So Quickly in Gaza? Texas Governor Greg Abbott Endorses Trump State Department Takes (a Tiny) Action against Flights of Would-Be Illegals from Haiti to Nicaragua DHS Proposes Reforms to the H-2 Nonimmigrant Visa Programs Who Is ICE’s Newest Chief of Staff, and Will He Promote the Agency’s Mission? Why Are So Many Working-Age Men Not in the Labor Force? Usually We Write about Immigration — This Is about Emigration and Why It Should Be Increased Biden to Close Massive ICE Detention Center While Illegal Migration Surges 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.