Coverage and Analysis
Trump's 2025 Executive Actions
Summary: From border security and asylum to enhanced vetting and birthright citizenship, President Trump has quickly begun delivering on his many immigration-related campaign promises. During the campaign, the Center provided extensive background and analysis on many of the immigration topics. We now add analysis of the specific executive orders and other actions.
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Podcast
Trump's Immigration Executive Orders Explained
Host: Mark Krikorian
Guests: Andrew R. Arthur and Elizabeth Jacobs
Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 189
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Report
The Impact of Immigration on U.S. Fertility
Can’t raise overall rate much, and appears to depress childbearing among working-class Americans
By Jason Richwine, January 27, 2025
Summary: With fertility having fallen below replacement level in the U.S., the Congressional Budget Office projects that deaths will outnumber births by 2033. Although some advocates look to higher-fertility immigrants to end the baby bust, the direct impact of immigration on national fertility is too small to achieve replacement level. Furthermore, evidence suggests that immigration indirectly depresses native fertility, especially among the working class.
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Commentary
Does America Need More Foreign Tech Workers? No
By Mark Krikorian
DC Journal, January 30, 2025
Excerpt: Ten years ago, Disney fired its American IT staff in Orlando, Fla., and replaced them with “high-skilled” foreign workers on H-1B visas. The foreign workers were so “highly skilled” that the Americans they were replacing had to train them on how to do their jobs — and if they didn’t, they’d lose their severance pay.
President Trump promised mass deportations. Here's how it will help Americans
By Jessica M. Vaughan
Fox News, January 29, 2025
Excerpt: President Trump promised Americans that he would launch the largest deportation operation in American history, and that operation has begun. Last week, officers of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) took to the streets over two busy days, arresting more than 1,000 aliens, mostly criminals, who are now on the path to removal.
Trump deploys the Alien Enemies Act
By George Fishman
Washington Times, January 28, 2025
Excerpt: On Jan. 20, President Trump issued an executive order starkly reminding us that international criminal cartels “have engaged in a campaign of violence and terror throughout the Western Hemisphere that has … flooded the [U.S.] with deadly drugs, violent criminals, and vicious gangs” and that the cartels “functionally control, through a campaign of assassination, terror, rape and brute force nearly all illegal traffic across” our southern border.
How Trump’s border orders are reversing the migrant crisis
By Andrew R. Arthur
New York Post, January 23, 2025
Excerpt: While foes and friends have focused on his directives to end birthright citizenship and designate foreign drug cartels and criminal gangs as terrorist organizations, Trump’s other immigration initiatives will be much more impactful, at least in the short term.
Episcopal bishop lectures Trump while earning taxpayer millions to bring migrants into US
By Don Barnett
New York Post, January 31, 2025
Excerpt: Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde’s sermon to President Trump during an inaugural prayer service, coupled with her church’s advocacy for humanitarian immigration programs, reveals a striking hypocrisy — one that could be seen as self-serving and even a conflict of interest.
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Featured Posts
Trump Suspends Refugee Admissions
By Nayla Rush
Excerpt: The refugee resettlement program poses a substantial security challenge. The vetting of refugees, no matter how “extreme”, is not enough. The task of checking refugees’ backgrounds is often impossible, given the lack of solid on-the-ground intelligence systems and the absence of dependable screening measures from conflict zones.
Trump Issues ‘Birthright Citizenship’ Executive Order
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: Of all the immigration actions that President Trump issued on his first day (back) in office, the one that has attracted the most attention is most likely an executive order captioned “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship” — better known as “the birthright citizenship” order. Here’s what it does — and more importantly, where I believe it’s going.
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Decoding Trump’s Border Counterterrorism Order
By Todd Bensman
Excerpt: Although the EO doesn’t explicitly identify pro-Hamas demonstrators for targeting, its language surely allows for the Trump administration to open a front that would, barring expected litigation, eventually seek visa revocations and deportations of foreign students who can be identified as participating. (Part 2)
Colombia’s President Tests Trump on Migrant Returns, Quickly Backs Down
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: If countries follow Colombia’s lead “fail to accept deportees”, they’re going to “find out” just how much things have changed in Washington, D.C. now that Trump’s back.
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Todd Bensman explains how the United Nations and NGOs are fueling illegal migration. ( Watch here.) |
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Todd Bensman talks executive orders, appointments, lawsuits, and mass deportations. ( Watch here.) |
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