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Is Federal Anti-Sanctuary Law Constitutional? ([link removed])
Sections 1373 and 1644 are key to constraining sanctuary cities ([link removed])
By George Fishman, February 26, 2025
Summary: A constitutional battle is imminent as the federal government challenges sanctuary jurisdictions over their non-compliance with Sections 1373 and 1644 of Title 8 of the U.S. Code. Sanctuary jurisdictions have enacted laws that directly conflict with these federal statutes, creating enforcement challenges and public safety risks.
Parsing Immigration Policy Podcast
Implications of Labeling Cartels as Terrorist Groups ([link removed])
Host: Todd Bensman, Senior National Security Fellow, CIS
Guest: Jaeson Jones, border correspondent and expert on Mexican cartels
Commentary
Published in Compact:
Immigration as Foreign Policy ([link removed])
By Mark Krikorian, February 26, 2025
Excerpt: American foreign policy is driven by various interests and goals—including containment of enemies, suppression of terrorism, access to foreign markets, promotion of human rights, and limiting the spread of disease. Every president must choose which of these to prioritize, but for 50 years or more, changes of administration never changed the fact that immigration was not considered a high-priority concern in America’s foreign relations. Until now.

Published in The American Conservative:
The Distraction of Mexico’s 10,000 Troops ([link removed])
By Phillip Linderman, February 27, 2025
Excerpt: Three cheers for President Donald Trump’s tariff threat, which concentrated the minds of Mexico’s leaders on their country’s role in undermining U.S. security, particularly when it comes to illegal immigration. While the illicit drug trade is a more difficult nut to crack, President Claudia Sheinbaum can do much more to prevent illegal migrants going north.
Featured Posts
How to Quickly Increase the Number of Criminal Alien Removals ([link removed])
By Daniel N. Vara, Jr.
Excerpt: Many criminal aliens have been convicted of and are serving relatively short-term sentences for petty offenses. They include low-value shoplifting, public drunkenness, resisting an officer w/o violence, petty theft, possessing fraudulent identity documents, misdemeanor burglary, and many other state offenses. Most if not all of these aliens are subject to removal from the United States as persons who have committed and have been convicted of qualifying criminal offenses and/or as aliens who were illegally in the United States.

Immigration Still Second-Biggest Issue for U.S. Voters ([link removed])
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: Trump promised to increase criminal deportations and boost border security on the campaign trail, and in the early going at least, he’s delivering. That’s good for the administration, and DHS in particular, because those issues are very popular with an American electorate still concerned about immigration.
DHS Partially Vacates Haiti’s TPS Extension, Reducing Duration by Six Months ([link removed])
By Elizabeth Jacobs
Excerpt: DHS has announced that Secretary Noem is reducing the duration of Haiti’s TPS designation by six months.Noem’s reasoning relied heavily on Mayorkas’s failure to consider or analyze whether Haiti’s extended designation was consistent with the “national interest”, as is required by statute.

DHS Secretary Imposes Alien Registration Requirements in ‘Self-Deport’ Push ([link removed])
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: On February 25, the DHS secretary announced that her department will be using all of the tools in the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) “to track illegal aliens and compel them to leave the country voluntarily”. That includes requiring aliens unlawfully present to register with the federal government in accordance with section 262 of the INA, a power I highlighted almost seven years ago that is now the cornerstone of the president’s “mass deportation” plans.
More Blog Posts
* To Measure Border Security, Keep an Eye on the Fentanyl Numbers ([link removed])
* Staffing Agency Boss Pleads Guilty to Harboring Aliens in Small Pennsylvania Town ([link removed])
* ‘Activists’ Doxxing ICE Agents in L.A. ([link removed])

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