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Share Tweet Forward Report The Most Important Immigration Rulings of 2023 and the Forecast for 2024 By Elizabeth Jacobs, February 6, 2024 Excerpt: Over the past few years, federal judges have played an increasingly powerful role in the U.S. government’s ability to implement immigration policies and programs. 2023 was no different. Here is a recap of some of last year’s most important judicial decisions that have helped or hindered immigration enforcement efforts across the United States. Understanding these rulings is crucial to forecasting what’s to come in 2024. Commentary Stop Automatically Granting U.S. Citizenship to Children of Foreign Diplomats By Phillip Linderman The American Conservative, February 5, 2024 Excerpt: Under State Department’s complicated rules, babies born in this country to blue-list diplomats are not considered U.S. citizens, while white-list offspring, born from parents who are typically administrative or consular staff, are deemed full Americans. This strange outcome ignores the fact that, in both cases, the foreign parents are temporarily in our country, employed by another government or international organization, and enjoying unique diplomatic privileges or immunities. An Immigration Crisis Beyond Imagining By Todd Bensman Imprimis, January 2024 Excerpt: In 1960, the Eisenhower administration began counting the number of foreign nationals “apprehended” or “encountered” by what was then called the U.S. Border Control when crossing into the U.S. over its southern border with Mexico. These figures have been published and closely monitored through the years, and there has never been anything like the numbers we are seeing now. Border Bill Ironies By Mark Krikorian National Review, February 6, 2024 Excerpt: As early as this week, the full House of Representatives could vote to impeach DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for disobeying the law, abuse of power, and dereliction of duty. But at the same time — possibly even on the same day — the Senate could vote on a measure crafted in part by that same cabinet member to “solve” the crisis caused by his own disobeying the law, abuse of power, and dereliction of duty. Border Bill Is Terrible, and a Way for Biden to Dodge Blame for Not Enforcing the Law By Mark Krikorian New York Post, February 6, 2024 Excerpt: Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel once said, “never let a crisis go to waste." The Biden administration goes one better: “Never create a crisis and let it go to waste.” Podcast Senate Border Bill Update Host: Mark Krikorian Guest: Andrew R. Arthur, Resident Fellow in Law and Policy Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 141 Featured Posts Border Bill Is Dead, But Its Spending Provisions May Resurface By Jessica M. Vaughan Excerpt: Even though the immigration provisions may be off the table now, Congress still has to pass the annual appropriations bills, so some of these provisions may be reprised. The Senate bill included appropriations of huge sums of money — nearly $7 billion — to support a continuation of the Biden administration’s disastrous policies facilitating illegal migration with taxpayer funds. The Good — and a Lot of Bad — in the Senate Border ‘Deal’ By Andrew R. Arthur Excerpt: Senate negotiators have finally released the text of a “deal” they’ve been hashing out for two months to trade $61 billion in foreign aid to Ukraine for border “reforms”. Latest Immigration Bill Spends $1.29 billion on Ineffective ATD Program By Jon Feere Excerpt: The latest unserious immigration bill out of Congress does nothing to stop the Biden administration’s assault on America’s borders and immigration enforcement system. It doesn’t require the hiring of ICE officers and it doesn’t promote deportation of illegal aliens. The Availability of Work Authorization Is a Known ‘Pull Factor’ for Illegal Immigration and the Submission of Fraudulent Asylum Claims By Elizabeth Jacobs Excerpt: The bill proposes almost no reforms to end existing and well-known “pull factors” for illegal immigration in the asylum system. Instead, it appears to strengthen a handful of these pull factors. More Blog Posts All’s Quiet on the Eagle Pass Front The Senate Border Bill Went ‘Meta’ in Record Time Here’s a Research Idea to Support State Taxes on Remittances Why Would the Senate Consider a Bill Codifying a Decline in Border Security? Update on Dueling Border-Security Votes in the House and Senate N.Y. By-Election Is Between Double Immigrant (R) and Child of Migrant (D) 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.