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Share Tweet Forward Recent Media Citations Our work keeps getting picked up by reporters and news aggregators. This past week, reporter Paul Bedard cited our research on the use of government subsidies by legal and illegal immigrants, which was then amplified by Real Clear Politics.   Parsing Immigration Policy Podcast Illegal-Immigrant Truck Drivers on America’s Roads Host: Mark Krikorian Guest: Jennie Taer, reporter for The Daily Wire Episode 229 Featured Posts Biden’s HHS Lost Nearly Half the Unaccompanied Migrant Children Released to ‘Sponsors’ By Colin Farnsworth Excerpt: Data recently obtained by CIS shows that during the first two years of the Biden administration the Department of Health and Human Services lost contact and could not determine the safety status of roughly half (48 percent) of all unaccompanied alien children (UACs) after transferring the children into the custody of a “sponsor”. Obama-Appointee Judge Follows the INA and Case Law, Dismisses Claim by Deported Physician By Andrew R. Arthur Excerpt: Kudos to Judge Sorokin for filtering out the emotionally charged claims in this case — and CBP’s apparently inadvertent failure to comply with his earlier order — and recognizing the limitations on his judicial authority in statute and precedent. Seventh Circuit Slams District Court Judge in ‘Midway Blitz’ Case By Andrew R. Arthur Excerpt: On Halloween, the Seventh Circuit issued an order in In re: Noem, telling a district court judge that she overstepped her boundaries by requiring an immigration chief to appear in her courtroom each weekday at 5:45 p.m. “to report on the use of force activities for each day.” While protestors are complaining about executive-branch overreach, they may want to examine the excesses of the judicial branch, too.  Surprising Takeaways from Latest Immigration Polling By Andrew R. Arthur Excerpt: Law enforcement isn’t always pretty, and that’s especially true when ICE agents are battling with often ill-informed and self-righteous protesters when they are doing it. But regardless, deportations are still popular with a majority of the American people.   Donate Copyright © 2025 Center for Immigration Studies, All rights reserved.  Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list. View this e-mail in your browser.