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Congressional Testimony
Statement of Nayla Rush on Biden's Afghan parolee program before the Senate Subcommittee on Border Security and Immigration and Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism
Reports
The Economic and Cultural Challenges of Afghan Immigration
By Jason Richwine, January 20, 2026
Summary: The number of Afghan immigrants in the U.S. now exceeds 230,000, having doubled between 2020 and 2024. The rapid influx has raised concerns about the economic and cultural impacts on American communities. This report analyzes those impacts using the 2024 American Community Survey and related data sets. 

The U Visa Program
Rampant fraud and abuse undermine integrity, burden police agencies, and slow benefits for qualified crime victims 
By Jessica M. Vaughan, January 14, 2026
Summary: This report analyzes the trends in U visa applications and provides insight into the fraud and abuse that occurs, much to the detriment of actual victims of crime who must wait longer for a visa because of the large volume of frivolous and fraudulent applications.
Parsing Immigration Policy Podcast
Immigration and Trucking: The Search for Cheap Labor
Host: Mark Krikorian
Guest: Gord Magill, third-generation trucker and author
Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 237
Featured Posts
If You Think Biden Was Bad, a Future Without ICE Would Be Worse
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: If Congress were to give in to those “Abolish ICE” demands and disband the agency, who would find, arrest, detain, prosecute, and remove the millions of aliens currently present here who came here illegally? Some agency must perform those duties, because otherwise the rest of our immigration system will collapse. Simply put, absent interior enforcement, the only incentive to come here “the right way” (aside from one’s own fickle conscience) is the risk of apprehension at the borders, with all the chaos it entails.

Is PARRIS Confirming?
By Nayla Rush
Excerpt: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently launched Operation PARRIS (Post-Admission Refugee Reverification and Integrity Strengthening) in Minnesota to target fraudulent refugee applications.
Is a ‘Civil War’ Brewing in Minnesota over Immigration?
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: ICE is required top arrest criminal aliens the moment they are released from local, state, or federal criminal custody, because Congress framed that obligation in no uncertain terms.

Temporary Protected Status for Somalia to End
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: DHS announced this week that Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Somalia would end effective March 17. Don’t get too excited — or upset — because the termination of Somalian TPS will only impact a handful of nationals of that country currently residing in the United States, but it nonetheless reflects a welcome change in the government’s perception of what was never meant to be a permanent status.
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