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Parsing Immigration Policy Podcast
Immigration Under Trump: A Conversation with Victor Davis Hanson
Host: Mark Krikorian
Guest: Victor Davis Hanson
Todd Bensman discusses deportation procedures. 
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Report
The Declining Education Level of Newly Arrived Immigrants
Trend driven by the huge increase in illegal immigration from Latin America under Biden
By Steven A. Camarota and Karen Zeigler, February 19, 2025
Summary: Newly arrived adult immigrants are significantly larger in number, poorer, and less educated than those who arrived before the border surge. That is the finding of a new analysis of Census Bureau survey data by the Center for Immigration Studies. The decline in education is in stark contrast to the steady improvement in the education levels of new immigrants in the years prior to the surge.
Commentary
Published in The American Conservative:
Trump Should Lead a World Summit Against Illegal Immigration
By Phillip Linderman, February 24, 2025
Excerpt: President Donald Trump’s tremendous start in sealing the U.S. border and deporting illegal migrants can be a springboard for a global initiative to mobilize like-minded world leaders to do the same. Now is the time for the State Department to convoke a worldwide summit to coordinate the international fight against illegal immigration.

Published in The American Mind:
American Guns Are Not to Blame for Mexico’s Cartel Problem
By Todd Bensman, February 18, 2025
Excerpt: WikiLeaks cables say Guatemala’s military stockpiles were sold to the Zetas cartel and one DIA report noted that serial numbers of light anti-tank weapons and M433 grenades recovered in Juarez traced to Honduras stockpiles.
Featured Posts
WH: ‘Illegal Border Crossings “Plummeted” in January’
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: CBP released its latest encounter numbers for the month of January, and it didn’t take long for the White House to take a victory lap, crowing “Illegal Border Crossings ‘Plummeted’ in January”.

Brazilian Mass Murderer Who Slipped U.S. Vetting Three Times Added to CIS Database
By Todd Bensman
Excerpt: A former state police officer in Brazil arrested and charged in Brazil for taking part in the murder of 11 teenagers but who still got into the United States on a tourist visa and stayed for years is the latest addition to the CIS National Security Vetting Failures Database, bringing the total number of analyzed failure cases in the database to 52.
Trump Issues Order ‘Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Open Borders’
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: The new executive order seeks “to ensure that taxpayer-funded benefits exclude any ineligible alien who entered the United States illegally or is otherwise unlawfully present in the United States”.

Eggs Are in Short Supply — STEM Workers Are Not
By Jason Richwine
Excerpt: When millions of STEM-trained individuals are not working STEM jobs, it’s hard to believe any tales of “shortage”. Perhaps a comparison with eggs — an actual case of low supply right now — will finally make this evergreen talking point wither.
 
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