Parsing Immigration Policy Podcast
Are Sanctuary Jurisdictions a Credit Risk?
Host: Jessica M. Vaughan, Director of Policy Studies, CIS
Guest: Ed Grebeck, veteran credit market risk expert
Summary: About one-third of all municipal bonds issued in 2024 and outstanding through 2024 are from sanctuary jurisdictions, concentrated in large cities and states, such as California, New York, and Massachusetts. Vaughan and Grebeck explore the fiscal implications of sanctuary policies and the need for comprehensive risk assessment in municipal finance.
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Commentary
Published in the Washington Examiner:
Sixty years of mass immigration is enough
By Mark Krikorian, May 6, 2025
Excerpt: The greatest legal immigration wave in America’s history started 60 years ago, when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the 1965 immigration law on Liberty Island in New York Harbor.“This bill that we will sign today is not a revolutionary bill. It does not affect the lives of millions. It will not reshape the structure of our daily lives,” he said.
Published in the Washington Examiner:
America Has More Foreign Residents than Ever
By Steven A. Camarota, May 6, 2025
Excerpt: The Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey from January of this year showed 53.3 million foreign-born or immigrant residents (legal and illegal alike) in the United States, equal to 15.8% of the total population. Both are record highs in American history.
Published in the Washington Examiner:
The Cultural Consequences of Record Immigration
By Jason Richwine, May 7, 2025
Excerpt: Ever since mass immigration began anew in the late 20th century, advocates have pointed to the “Great Wave” to insist we could handle it. After all, the foreign-born share, even by 2010, was still below the “Great Wave” peak. “We’ve been here before,” they would say. It’s no longer true.
Published in the Washington Examiner:
Chain Migration Fuels a Bloated and Obsolete Immigration System
By Jessica M. Vaughan, May 9, 2025
Excerpt: Chain migration and periodic amnesties that award huge numbers of green cards outside the regular system have fueled near-constant growth in legal immigration for decades.
Published in the Washington Examiner:
Sunset the Diversity Visa Lottery Program
By Phillip Linderman, May 8, 2025
Excerpt: One piece of America’s legal immigration complex that is overdue for the waste bin is the so-called Diversity Immigrant Visa Program, which Congress created in 1990 based on the quaint notion that the U.S. was being deprived because some countries were not sending enough migrants.
Published in The Federalist:
Where Was Democrats’ Outrage when Obama and Biden Deported Illegal Alien Housekeepers and Gardeners?
By Todd Bensman, May 8, 2025
Excerpt: No one made a peep when Obama and Biden deported millions of illegal aliens who also merely worked hard, paid taxes, and stayed out of prison.
Published in the New York Post:
FBI finally investigating terror attack against Jews by illegal border crosser
By Todd Bensman, May 6, 2025
Excerpt: In a highly unusual move, the FBI under President Joe Biden didn’t seem to much care about the Chicago attack, ceding the public facing investigation to local police and the prosecution to Illinois officials, who used the state’s never-used 9/11-era state anti-terrorism statute to charge Mauritanian national Sidi Abdallahi, 22, with terrorism.
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Featured Posts
Deportation Policies Remain Trump’s Most Popular
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: There has been much discussion in the media of late about how Donald Trump is “slipping” in the polls, but one current administration policy remains popular — “deporting immigrants living in the United States”. That’s true even in the latest New York Times poll — which deserves its own analysis.
Due to Widespread Fraud, U.S. Requesting More Information from H-1Bs
By John Miano
Excerpt: The last H-1B compliance audit found that over 13 percent of approved H-1B petitions were fraudulent. The H-1B denial rate is only 3.5 percent.
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DHS to Pay Illegal Aliens to Leave
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: On May 5, DHS announced it would be offering “Historic Travel Assistance” and a “Stipend for Voluntary Self-Deportation” — that is, a plan to pay removable aliens who use the CBP Home app to leave. While it may be controversial, it could also be a cost- and resource-effective way to drive down the unauthorized population — assuming enough people take the department up on its offer.
Immigration ‘Due Process’ in a Nutshell
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: In much the same way many in the public square have suddenly become experts on papal conclaves (and the media was crawling with amateur virologists five years ago during Covid), a similar trend is emerging with respect to “due process” and deportations. Here’s “due process” in the immigration context, in a nutshell.
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