Reports
The Foreign-Born Share and Number at Record Highs in February 2024
By Steven A. Camarota and Karen Zeigler, March 28, 2024
Excerpt: Analysis of the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey (CPS) shows that the total foreign-born or immigrant population (legal and illegal) hit a new record high of 51.4 million in February 2024 — an increase of 6.4 million since President Biden took office.
The Policy Decisions Embedded in the New USCIS Fee Schedule
By Elizabeth Jacobs, March 26, 2024
Excerpt: A new report finds that the Biden administration plans to make employers seeking foreign workers bear the cost of the border crisis. The report teases out this and other conclusions from a new U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) fee schedule set to take effect on April 1, 2024.
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Podcast
Is the New USCIS Fee Schedule Fair?
Host: Mark Krikorian
Guest: Elizabeth Jacobs, Director of Regulatory Affairs and Policy, CIS
Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 148
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Commentary
Cesar Chavez Couldn’t Get the Feds to Enforce the Border, Either
By Mark Krikorian
National Review, March 28, 2024
Excerpt: This Sunday, March 31, isn’t just Easter — it’s also National Border Control Day, i.e., Cesar Chavez’s birthday. And on his birthday, it’s worth reflecting on the difficulty in getting immigration laws enforced when powerful interests don’t want them to be.
Biden’s Boss Tightens the Screws
By Todd Bensman
The American Mind, March 28, 2024
Excerpt: If President Biden wants his mass migration crisis to recede from public view before the election, López Obrador will slow the flow of migrants—for the ripe price of a $20 billion down payment.
Mexican president blackmails Biden over the border
By Andrew R. Arthur
NY Post, March 27, 2024
Excerpt: Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador — popularly known as AMLO — sat down for an interview Sunday with CBS News’ “60 Minutes” and made clear he controls a US southern border that has largely been abandoned by the Biden administration.
It’s Time for an Immigration Moratorium
By Jason Richwine
Thomas D. Klingenstein, March 26, 2024
Excerpt: When President Biden took office, the foreign-born population in the United States stood at 45 million. By the end of 2023, that number had risen to a record 50.4 million. For years, as the absolute number of immigrants living in the U.S. hit all-time highs, advocates insisted that at least the foreign-born proportion of the country’s population was not unprecedented. Now it is.
Shocking Video of Migrants Tearing Down Fence a Symbol of Everything Wrong with Biden’s Policy
By Andrew R. Arthur
New York Post, March 22, 2024
Excerpt: The New York Post’s video showing more than 100 migrants tearing aside barriers and pushing their way past National Guard troops and into the United States near El Paso is shocking, but what’s really appalling is what the public won’t see . . .
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Featured Posts
CBP’s Stats Show Last Month Was the Worst February at the Border in History
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: Migrant travel season has just started, and if CBP’s February encounter statistics are any gauge, FY 2024 will be the worst year for illegal entries in history.
Fifth Circuit Refuses to Stay Injunction of Texas Border Law
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: For the time being, SB 4 is only theoretically a Texas state law that criminalizes illegal entries across the Rio Grande. Whether that remains true forever depends on litigation strategy and the willingness of federal judges to trust their colleagues on the Texas state-court bench.
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DHS’s Deception Without a Hint of Shame: The Sequel
By George Fishman
Excerpt: Secretary Mayorkas's response to the border riot in El Paso confirms the allegations in the House impeachment report.
The Florida Gateway: Data Shows Most Migrant Flights Landing in Gov. DeSantis’s Sunshine State
By Todd Bensman
Excerpt: This early evidence suggests that a great many of these inadmissible alien passengers, probably a majority, initially land at international airports Florida.
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