Reports
First Blood: Anatomy of Border-Crosser’s Chicago Terror Attack; Broad implications for the United States from the first accused Islamic terrorist to illegally cross the southern border and shoot an American for jihad
By Todd Bensman, January 6, 2025
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Summary: A new investigative three-part series details an attack by an illegal alien terrorist that received little coverage by U.S. media or attention from the FBI. The attack and later suicide by hanging of the suspect in Cook County jail, short-circuiting a trial prompted the Center to travel to Chicago to learn more about the incident and to remind the country that a border-crossing terrorist, often dismissed as a hypothetical fantasy, has, in fact, struck on U.S. soil.
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Elon Musk Is Right about H-1Bs
‘I’ve been very clear that the program is broken and needs major reform’
By George Fishman, January 9, 2025
Summary: What can be done to fix the H-1B program? These fixes, whether easy to accomplish or not, are imperative if we are to have an H-1B program that actually serves the national interest and protects the interests of American workers.
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Podcast
The First U.S. Terror Attack by Border-Crossing Islamist Extremist
Host: Mark Krikorian
Guest: Todd Bensman
Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 186
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Commentary
Will There Be a Laken Riley Act Christmas Tree?
By Mark Krikorian
National Review, January 13, 2025
Excerpt: My main concern at this point is that, with the passage of this bill, Democrats, and even some Republicans, might say they took care of immigration and there’s no need to address other issues (except for border funding), such as the need to plug asylum loopholes, rein in parole, reform or abolish Temporary Protected Status, and a million other things.
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Featured Posts
To Get the ‘Best and Brightest’ H-1B Workers, the U.S. Must Reform the Program
By Elizabeth Jacobs
Excerpt: The quickest and easiest reform the incoming Trump administration (or Congress, for that matter) can make is to reinstate the rule it finalized on January 8, 2021, that requires USCIS to select the highest-paid H-1B petitions in years where the demand of H-1B workers exceeds the supply of visas. Currently, USCIS conducts a random lottery, which not only allows the lowest-skilled workers to crowd out the “best and brightest”, but also gives no weight to industries or occupations that have the greatest need for more workers. This reform was also abandoned by the Biden administration before it could go into effect.
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Mexico Signals Willingness to Accept ‘Other than Mexican’ Deportees
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: Mexico City has opened the door to accepting “other than Mexican” deportees, and the law allows DHS to use that door as an exit for hundreds of thousands of aliens here illegally. The only real question is how high the fee will be — because Claudia Sheinbaum likely isn’t offering this out of the kindness of her heart.
Post-Mortem on the Biden-Harris Immigration Policies
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: While the latest Economist/YouGov poll sidesteps the unpopularity of Biden-Harris immigration policies, read deep and you’ll find that concerns over those policies helped drive GOP voters to the polls. Those voters are likely happy with the outcome, but are plainly still worried about the lingering impacts of the four-year migrant surge.
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