Recent Citations
Both the Department of Homeland Security and White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt shared the Center's recent chart showing the decline in the foreign-born population, generating more than a million views on X. The administration continues to refer to the Center's analyses as the authority on the overall numbers and the progress they have made reducing illegal immigration.
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Parsing Immigration Policy Podcast
Asylum Reform: Withdraw from the UN Treaty, or Not?
Host: Mark Krikorian
Guest: Yonatan Jakubowicz, Director of the Israeli Immigration Policy Center
Episode 230
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Commentary
Published in Commonplace:
The Immigration Court Backlog (Finally) Falls
By Andrew R. Arthur, November 13, 2025
Excerpt: Perhaps the most influential force in the 2024 presidential election was voters’ smoldering anger toward the broken U.S. immigration system and their accompanying desire to see our border secured. But while it doesn’t get the most press, the massive immigration court backlog is the thorniest issue imperiling this goal. The mechanics of deporting illegal aliens are more complicated than most people understand.
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Featured Posts
BIA Opinion Sets the Stage for Removals under Honduras ‘Safe Third Country’ Agreement
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: Expect Trump II to enter into more safe third country agreements as it attempts to plow through the hundreds of thousands of pending immigration-court asylum cases it was left by the Biden administration’s migrant release policies. The BIA has provided immigration judges with a pretty clear roadmap on how to handle them.
‘Operation Dirtbag’ Nets 150-Plus Sex Offenders in Florida
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: This operation raises a lot of questions, including why ICE wasn’t looking for these guys under the last administration and why so many protestors are standing in the agency’s way today.
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The Battle Over Control of Immigration
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: Under the Constitution, Congress, accountable to the voters, decides which aliens are allowed in and which must leave — not the president, the protestors, or the bishops. And no one should take control over such a critical issue from the people’s representatives.
What’s the Problem with Optional Practical Training (OPT)?
By Elizabeth Jacobs
Excerpt: Employers can fill full-time professional roles with foreign graduates immediately after school without filing an H-1B petition, paying the associated fees, or meeting the wage attestation and labor condition application requirements that are intended to protect U.S. workers. Many employers use this as a bridge to continue employing foreign workers year after year by cycling through multiple OPT participants or by repeatedly extending employment under the STEM extension, effectively circumventing the statutory limits Congress imposed on temporary high-skilled workers.
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Mark Krikorian Debates: Should America End Birthright Citizenship?
A debate produced by a partnership between Open to Debate and Arizona State University’s Institute of Politics
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Steven A. Camarota Debates: Is Mass Immigration Good for America?
Reason and the Cato Institute go head-to-head with the National Review and the Center for Immigration Studies in a thought-provoking debate on one of America's most divisive issues: immigration.
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