Panel
The Weaponization of Immigration
Discussion of strategies, consequences, solutions
Participants:
* Viktor Marsai, Director, Migration Research Institute, Budapest
* Phillip Linderman, Retired senior Foreign Service officer, State Department; Board Member, CIS
* Eric Ruark, Director of Research. Numbers USA.
* Mark Krikorian, Moderator, Executive Director, CIS
Link to coverage on C-SPAN
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Parsing Immigration Policy Podcast
The Court’s Role in the Use of the Alien Enemies Act
Host: Jessica M. Vaughan, Director of Policy Studies, CIS
Guest: George Fishman, Senior Legal Fellow, CIS
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Commentary
Published in DC Journal:
Deport Aliens Advocating Evil
By George Fishman, April 3, 2025
Excerpt: Fortunately, federal law provides powerful tools enabling the removal of aliens who advocate terrorism and incite genocide.
Published in The Hill:
Yes, Trump can and must deport noncitizen supporters of Hamas
By George Fishman, April 2, 2025
Excerpt: The Trump administration should continue — must continue — its efforts to seek the removal of noncitizen immigrants who celebrate the killing of innocent people. America will be a better place for it.
Published in The American Conservative:
The Veterans Group Running Interference for Open-Border NGOs
By Phillip Linderman, April 2, 2025
Excerpt: The Trump administration is right to permanently halt refugees and migrants coming from Afghanistan. Trump is right to defund Biden’s corrupt refugee and resettlement lobby. He is right to keep his pledge to the American people in the 2024 campaign. That is the highest American honor at stake in all of this business.
Published in The Daily Wire:
Trump’s War On Fentanyl Off To A Strong Start
By Todd Bensman, April 1, 2025
Excerpt: It’s early but not too early to note that President Donald Trump’s all-out World War on cross-border smuggling of fentanyl, the highly lethal synthetic opiate responsible for 120,000 American overdose deaths in recent years, is achieving remarkable impacts for the first time in a decade.
Published in Compact:
On Immigration, the Left Must Learn from Cesar Chavez
By Mark Krikorian, March 31, 2025
Excerpt: Cesar Chavez was a border hawk and an anti-identitarian. To drive that point home, I and others have been campaigning for some time to have March 31 designated National Border Control Day.
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Featured Posts
Tren de Aragua, the Alien Enemies Act, and the ‘State Secrets Privilege’
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: TdA criminals are also tools of hostile Venezuelan government policy, and the administration is likely relying on more than tattoos to identify members who entered here illegally.
Federal Court Rejects DHS’s Decision to Revoke TPS for Venezuelans
By Elizabeth Jacobs
Excerpt: Without additional involvement from Congress or the U.S. Supreme Court to address the scope of judicial intervention in nationwide immigration policy, TPS will continue to be anything but temporary for the majority of the program’s beneficiaries.
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Then and Now at the Southern Border
By Todd Bensman
Excerpt: No complex “bipartisan Senate bill” was ever necessary to fix “a broken immigration system”, nor the vast U.S. wealth transfers the Democrats insisted were necessary to alleviate the “root causes” of emigration in misgoverned foreign sending countries. Ditto “comprehensive immigration reform”.
Report: Trump’s ICE Has Deported 100K-Plus Aliens in 70 Days
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: Increased removals coupled with a decline in illegal entries under Trump means that the total unauthorized population in the United States is decreasing, a sea change compared to the massive increase in that population under Biden.
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