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Upcoming CIS Panel
The Weaponization of Immigration
Discussion of strategies, consequences, solutions
The Center for Immigration Studies will host a panel discussion examining how immigration is used as a political, economic, and strategic tool by governments, non-state, and sub-state actors worldwide. Whether through mass migration crises, policy-driven border surges, or the manipulation of refugee flows, immigration has become a powerful geopolitical weapon and a means of waging hybrid warfare.
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Parsing Immigration Policy Podcast
The Mahmoud Khalil Deportation Case
Guests:
Andrew R. Arthur, Resident Fellow in Law & Policy, CIS
George Fishman, Senior Legal Fellow, CIS
Host: Mark Krikorian
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Featured Posts
Rubio Declares Most Immigration Actions Exempt from Federal Notice-and-Comment Requirements
By Elizabeth Jacobs
Excerpt: Secretary of State Marco Rubio has determined that “all efforts, conducted by any agency” of the federal government to “control the status, entry, and exit of people … across the borders of the United States” would not be subject to the notice-and-comment requirements of the Administrative Procedure Act.
With ICE Moving at a Glacial Pace (Through No Fault of Its Own), Can the U.S. Military Trigger an Avalanche of Deportations?
By George Fishman
Excerpt: Members of the armed forces are not going to serve as immigration judges. But, under the Insurrection Act, they can help track down removable aliens. They can help detain them. And they can help remove them.
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Support for Trump, ICE, in Latest Poll
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: Immigration enforcement was a key promise of Donald Trump in 2024, and as president he has hustled to keep it. Thus far, a majority of voters like what he’s done to secure the borders and enforce the laws governing aliens — and a plurality of them want more ICE, not less.
USCIS Expanding the Issuance NTAs
By Elizabeth Jacobs
Excerpt: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has typically not initiated removal proceedings after denying an immigration benefit in most cases, even when the agency knew that the applicant lacked lawful presence in the country. That is now changing.
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Todd Bensman, the Center’s national security fellow, joins Border Patrol agents to examine Bulldozer Trail, a critical new road cutting through previously inaccessible, rugged terrain.
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Mexico constructed large-scale shelters across its northern provinces to manage the anticipated influx of U.S. returns. However, our fieldwork indicates that the shelter in Juarez, and likely others, are operating at very low capacity. In this video, Todd Bensman explains why.
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