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Report
The UN’s Palestinian Refugee Agency: Funded and Advised by the State Department’s Refugee and Migration Bureau ([link removed])
By Nayla Rush, April 15, 2024
Summary: Despite these relatively small numbers, the issue of Palestinian refugees is important, not just in the obvious foreign policy sense, but also to U.S. migration and refugee policy. The United Nations has two refugee agencies: the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), for all other refugees in the world. The United States is the largest funder of UNRWA, and the U.S. official in charge of the State Department’s refugee efforts — both assistance abroad and resettlement here — is also the head of the UNRWA’s advisory commission. This report offers an overview of UNRWA’s history, financing, staff, and institutional culture, as well as its various scandals, including its ties to Hamas.
Congressional Testimony
Biden’s Border Crisis: Examining the Impacts of International Cartels Targeting Indian Country ([link removed])
Statement of Jessica M. Vaughan before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, April 10, 2024

Summary: The mass catch and release policies have led to the release of more than three million illegal migrants, damaged the integrity of our immigration system, and exposed Americans to new national security and public safety threats – especially threats related to the trafficking and distribution of illicit drugs.

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Commentary
Biden again teases to do something he always could do – close the border ([link removed])
By Mark Krikorian
New York Post, April 10, 2024
Excerpt: After repeated White House hints that the president might finally do something about the border — none of which resulted in anything — this week the president himself teased that maybe, possibly he might act.

Joe Biden’s ‘secret’ flights of 33,000 migrants to New York passes buck to city taxpayers ([link removed])
By Todd Bensman
New York Post, April 8, 2024
Excerpt: NYC Mayor Eric Adams gives President Biden a total a pass on the New York-bound parole flights, which Biden could shut down with a phone call, preferring to continue pretending that the Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott is the cause of Gotham’s problems.
Podcast
Chinese Organized Crime Takes Root in Vacationland ([link removed])
Host: Jessica M. Vaughan
Guest: Steve Richardson, Editor-in-chief of the Maine Wire
Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 151

The State of Border Security: A Look from the Mexico Side ([link removed])
Host: Mark Krikorian
Guest: Todd Bensman, CIS Senior National Security Fellow
Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 150
Featured Posts
If the Economic Indicators Are Good, Why Aren’t Voters Feeling It? ([link removed])
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: An economy that relies on the exploitation (in the economic sense of the word) of poor and often illegal migrant labor is not a healthy one, and increasingly, that’s what American voters are seeing.

Immigration Court No-Shows Soar in FY 2024 ([link removed])
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: The latest disclosures from the Department of Justice (DOJ) reveal that the number of alien respondents who failed to appear for removal proceedings is soaring — on track to exceed 170,000 in FY 2024, which would best last year’s record of nearly 160,000
ISIS and the National Security Vulnerabilities of an Insecure Border ([link removed])
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: Few ISIS-K attacks would be more “audacious” than one along the lines of — or bloodier than — the Crocus City Hall attack here in the United States. Perhaps it’s time that the “Department of Homeland Security” live up to its name and start securing the Southwest border, and the homeland with it.

Fact Sheet on Haitian Immigrants in the United States ([link removed])
By Steven A. Camarota
Excerpt: Due to the increased possibility of a surge in migration from Haiti, there is significant interest in the Haitian immigrant community currently residing in the United States. This fact sheet provides the most up-to-date socio-demographic profile of immigrants from that Caribbean country.
More Blog Posts
* Federal Government Releases Suspected Afghan Terrorist — Twice ([link removed])
* Texas Asks Judge to Reconsider CHNV Decision ([link removed])
* Tribal Leaders Seek Help to Oust Mexican Drug Cartels ([link removed])
* SW Border Apprehensions Exceed One Million in First Six Months of FY 2024 ([link removed])
* The Migrant Surge and the ‘Shelter’ Inflation of 2024 ([link removed])
* New York Times/Siena Poll Reveals Partisan Split Over Immigration ([link removed])
* Carrot Approach Nets Zero in EB-5 Reform, in Fact, a Sea of 708 Zeroes ([link removed])
* DOJ Report Details Decline in Border Prosecutions Under Biden ([link removed])

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Todd Bensman discusses illegal immigration from the border in Del Rio, Texas

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