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What's Happening at the Center
In recent weeks, CIS National Security Fellow Todd Bensman has written a series of blog posts ([link removed]) reporting about the extent to which Covid-infected patients from Mexico might be one of several causes behind sharply escalating border state hospitalizations. In a column this past week ([link removed]) , he uses content analysis of Mexican and U.S. media reporting, public statements of officials, and hospitalization data to show that cross border traffic into Texas, Arizona, and California is indeed contributing to the rise in local infection rates.
Report
The Employment Situation of Immigrants and Natives in June 2020: Employment improved slightly more for immigrants, but remains dismal for both groups ([link removed])
By Steven A. Camarota, Jason Richwine, and Karen Zeigler

Summary: An analysis by the Center for Immigration Studies of public-use data released earlier this month by the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that while there was some improvement in the number and share of native-born Americans and immigrants (legal and illegal) out of work, unemployment remains extraordinarily high.
Blog Posts

A Missed Opportunity: Trump's response to the use of foreign workers at the TVA is another consequence of bad staffing decisions ([link removed])
By John Miano
In the midst of the pandemic, the Tennessee Valley Authority (a government-owned corporation) is replacing Americans with foreign workers. If Trump were to come down hard on this it would show he stands with working Americans.

CBP Has Four Staffed Ports of Entry that Handle Fewer Than One Car a Day ([link removed])
By David North
If the five largest ports of entry on the northern border had the number of crossers cut sharply to 85,000 a month collectively (in May) as a result of the virus crisis, what happened to the traffic at the smallest of the many ports of entry on that border?

Settlement Proves DOJ/DHS Need to Crackdown on 'Frivolous' Asylum Applications: Thanks to 'loophole', 'frivolity' is not always funny ([link removed])
By Andrew R. Arthur
It might be counterintuitive that a lawyer would want to bring an alien client to the attention of DHS and have that client placed into removal proceedings to not apply for asylum, but it can be part of a gambit to get a green card, or at least can yield a work permit for years, while the case wends it way through the courts.

The Declining Interest in EB-5 Regional Centers ([link removed])
By David North
The number of "regional centers" licensed by USCIS to serve as middlemen for the EB-5 visa-selling investor scheme seems to have declined significantly.


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