Reports and Podcast
Immigration Shifts Political Power
New reports show how Democrats gain in Congress and the Electoral College without immigrants having to cast a single vote
Summary: Seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and thus votes in the Electoral College are apportioned among the states based on each one’s total population — not by the number of citizens or legal residents. The Center for Immigration Studies released two reports explaining how this works, which are the subject of this week’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy.
Link to reports and podcast
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Panel
State Department Can Lead on Fighting Illegal Immigration and Promoting Border Security.
Participants
Christopher Landau, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico (2019-2021)
Phillip Linderman, retired senior Foreign Service officer, State Department; CIS board member
Jessica Vaughan, former Consular Officer with the State Department; Director of Policy Studies, CIS
Moderator: Mark Krikorian, Executive Director, CIS
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Commentary
How Immigrants Redistribute Political Power — Without Voting
By Jason Richwine
National Review, November 4, 2024
Excerpt: In the future, immigrants who become naturalized citizens may alter the American electorate, but all immigrants shift political power in the U.S. right now, even without voting. That’s the takeaway from two new reports by Steven Camarota and Karen Zeigler of the Center for Immigration Studies.
Immigrants already tip scales of US elections without even voting
By Steven Camarota
New York Post, November 1, 2024
Excerpt: Immigrants don’t need to have the right to vote to affect elections in the United States — simply by being here, they can tip the scales. The apportionment of House seats and votes in the Electoral College among the states is based on total population — not citizenship or legal status.
Mexico Is Holding Back A Massive Wave Of Illegal Immigrants That Will Break After The Election
By Todd Bensman
The Federalist, October 31, 2024
Excerpt: Mexico is struggling to maintain its end of the bargain for a particular reason right now. Countless immigrants in the caravan I followed and back in Tapachula explained that they were feeling desperate to cross before Donald Trump wins the election and closes the border to all immigrants, as the Republican candidate has repeatedly promised. They’re pouring in from Guatemala and pushing hard against the Mexican cordon, hoping for a breakdown.
The Biden-Harris Administration Risks Another 9/11?
By Phillip Linderman
American Conservative, October 30, 2024
Excerpt: The proximate cause of the 9/11 catastrophe was the failure of U.S. border security. Specifically, the terrorist attackers succeeded in their suicide mission because U.S. government agencies failed to manage the national watchlist that would have easily identified the 9/11 operational ringleader, Mohamed Atta.
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Journal Article
The End of Asylum
By Mark Krikorian
Limen, November 1, 2024
Excerpt: The dramatic political, social, and technological changes since World War II have made the asylum regime established by the 1951 Refugee Convention unsustainable. Because asylum is seen as a “right”, it has become a challenge – arguably an existential challenge – to the sovereignty of developed nations. The measures proposed or taken so far have failed to address the fundamental contradiction between international asylum rules and modern conditions. The beginning of a solution, then, must be to withdraw from multilateral treaties that relate to asylum and for each nation to develop its own asylum policies based on its own interests.
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Featured Posts
House Judiciary Committee Reports on the Administration’s ‘Quiet Amnesty’ via the Immigration Courts
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: The House Judiciary Committee issued a report last week captioned: explaining how the Biden-Harris administration has allowed putatively removable aliens to remain by tanking their cases in immigration court. I’d call it a “blockbuster”, but that term generally describes previously unknown facts, and in this case those facts have long been there for everyone to see. They just haven’t looked, either due to ignorance or indifference.
Court: Aliens on the Mexican Side of the Border Must Be Let in If They Say They Want Asylum
By George Fishman
Excerpt: The court imposes on the federal government — for the first time — an obligation to interview asylum seekers who are still in Mexico.
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How Non-Citizens Impact Political Representation and the Partisan Makeup of the U.S. House of Representatives
By Steven A. Camarota and Karen Zeigler
Excerpt: Because non-citizens are not evenly distributed across the country, they make up a large share of the population of many congressional districts. It typically requires many fewer votes to win in such districts compared to districts comprised largely of citizens. This raises important questions about the principle of “one person, one vote.”
President Biden Directs Agencies to Fast Track Immigrant Visas for Foreign STEM Workers
By Elizabeth Jacobs
Excerpt: President Biden’s recent national security memorandum on AI also instructed DHS to look into “prioritizing and streamlining” immigrant visa processing for applicants working in “sensitive technologies”.
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