Reports
New Wage Data Show No STEM Worker ‘Shortage’
Contradicts new National Academies report
By Steven A. Camarota and Jason Richwine, August 30, 2024
Excerpt: Time and time again, activists assert that there is a shortage of workers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). A new National Academies report released yesterday, entitled “International Talent Programs in the Changing Global Environment”, is the latest to argue that the U.S. needs to recruit and retain more immigrants to work in STEM fields. Below we harness new data to help explain why STEM workers are actually not in short supply.
Biden-Harris DHS to Resume Fraud-Plagued CHNV Parole
‘No prior experience is necessary’ to be an adjudicator
By Andrew R. Arthur, August 29, 2024
Excerpt: The Biden-Harris DHS earlier this month paused its “parole” program for nationals of Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, and Nicaragua amidst findings of fraud. The Washington Times now reports that the administration is restarting “CHNV Parole”, and in an interesting twist, the department is soliciting volunteers to “confirm” (read: “process”) those applications — volunteers who don’t need any prior experience. What’s the worst that could happen? Trafficking, exploitation, forced marriage, peonage, and national-security threats, for starters.
Foreign Student Fraud Case Highlights Serious Problems
Dangerous weaknesses in oversight at DHS, the State Department, and the university
By Jon Feere, August 27, 2024
Excerpt: Blatant, widespread fraud has become a central part of America’s foreign student program, and the government agencies responsible for putting an end to it have been asleep at the wheel for far too long. This despite the fact that the 9/11 Commission report 20 years ago highlighted “the need for attention to America’s porous borders and the weak enforcement of immigration laws”, including “imposing tighter controls on student visas”.
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Commentary
Don’t believe for one minute Kamala Harris’ fantasy pivot on open border
By Mark Krikorian
New York Post, August 28, 2024
Excerpt: Vice President Kamala Harris has rightly been tagged as both a phony and a flip-flopper. Her latest on immigration combines these two — a phony flip-flop.
Trump Is Likely Right about Illegal Immigrants Accounting for Job Growth
By Steven A. Camarota
National Review, August 27, 2024
Excerpt: The current low unemployment rate does not include the millions of working-age Americans who have dropped out of the labor force entirely. The massive influx of foreign workers in recent decades allows us to ignore these Americans and the enormous social problems this situation creates.
Biden-Harris Open Border Is Destroying an Indigenous Tribe’s Land and Way of Life
By Todd Bensman
New York Post, August 26, 2024
Excerpt: The Biden-Harris administration lavished new billions in tax money on United Nations agencies and non-governmental advocacy groups (NGOs) that descended on this region to ease the burdens of Darien Gap travel. In the process, they have trampled arguably the most vulnerable and important stakeholder of them all in Panama: the Embera-Wounnaan tribe, whose 19,000 people happened to be living smack in the middle of this immigration hurricane. And they’ve denied the tribes a seat at any table where they might have had a say.
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Podcast
VP Harris’s Role as ‘Root Causes’ Czar
Host: Mark Krikorian
Guest: Andrew R. Arthur, Resident Fellow of Law & Policy, CIS
Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 160
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Featured Posts
The New York Times Wakes Up to How Bad Sanctuary Laws Are
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: That the New York Times felt obliged to discuss this case suggests that innocent New Yorkers, citizen and alien alike, are fed up with NYC’s sanctuary nonsense. Talk is cheap, however, so let’s see if there’s any action.
Biden/Harris ‘Keeping Families Together’ Scheme Seems Headed for Annulment
By George Fishman
Excerpt: The judge seems to find the states’ arguments regarding the legal infirmities of the Biden-Harris parole-in-place scheme to be compelling. If they can convince him on the thornier standing questions, then illegal-alien spouses should be getting together their three- and 10-year bar waiver applications.
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Another Day, Another Shocking Criminal Migrant Report
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: It’s rare to find a case in which so many flawed policies and questionable laws combine to result in such grievous harm, but Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee lay it out convincingly. Don’t expect most in the media, however, to pay their findings much mind, because it doesn’t fit the narrative they seek to promote.
Exclusive Interview: Panama Border Security Chief Says Many U.S.-Bound Terror Suspects Caught in Darien Gap Region
By Todd Bensman
Excerpt: The record-breaking number of terror suspects caught illegally crossing the U.S. border doesn't include many others caught by authorities in Panama as they emerged from the Darien Gap jungle. But the volume of the flow, sparked by Biden-Harris policies, is so large that only perhaps 3 percent of migrants are subject to counterterrorism checks.
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