Parsing Immigration Policy Podcast
Gov. Ron DeSantis on Florida’s “Gold Standard” Immigration Enforcement Model
Host: Mark Krikorian
Guest: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis
Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 240
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Report
Welfare Use by Immigrants and the U.S.-Born, 2024
Comparing program use by foreign- and U.S.-born-headed households
By Steven A. Camarota and Karen Zeigler , February 4, 2026
Summary: The findings show that households headed by immigrants, also called the “foreign-born”, are significantly more likely to receive benefits than households headed by the U.S.-born. The ability of low-income immigrants, including illegal immigrants, to receive benefits on behalf of U.S.-born citizen children is a key reason restrictions on welfare use for new legal immigrants, and illegal immigrants, are relatively ineffective. If we want immigrants to use less welfare in the future, then reducing illegal immigration and changing the selection criteria for legal immigrants to emphasize skills should be considered.
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Commentary
Published in Commonplace:
The High Cost of Immigrant Welfare
By Steven A. Camarota, February 5, 2026
Excerpt: As the Minnesota welfare scandal highlighted, there are vast amounts of American taxpayer dollars involved, a limited resource that should be spent prudently. By their consumption of scarce public resources, immigrants make it more difficult to assist the poor who were born here, which raises key questions about immigration’s impact on the U.S. labor market and especially on blue collar workers.
Published in the Washington Examiner:
Body-armor vs. briefcase immigration enforcement
By Mark Krikorian
Excerpt: At its base, the problem has been that the DHS has conflated two kinds of enforcement, properly directed at two different, broad groups of illegal immigrants. “Targeted, strategic enforcement operations” are for criminal aliens and deportation fugitives. But the bulk of the illegal population aren’t raping or murdering but have no right to be here; making them unemployable is the key to their self-deportation.
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Featured Posts
Want ‘Mass Deportations’? You Need ‘Briefcase Enforcement’
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: It would be an understatement to observe there’s a lot of consternation over the Trump administration’s current “mass deportation” regime, which focuses on individual arrests of removable aliens (many, but not all, criminals). But here’s a better option if you support large-scale removals: “employer sanctions”, or as my colleague Mark Krikorian refers to it, “briefcase enforcement”, targeting the businesses supporting the otherwise “undocumented” population. It’s time for ICE to call out its own team of “Untouchables” and unleash a much more politically palatable brand of enforcement.
Going Back to the Past to Explain ‘Administrative Warrants’, Immigration Enforcement
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: In recent days, I have been inundated by reporters seeking insight on two subjects I have written about extensively: ICE “administrative warrants”, used to arrest aliens who are removable from the United States; and the “due process” aliens are accorded after they are taken into custody. Both concepts are best understood by looking to the past.
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Can Naturalized Citizens Be Hyphenated Americans?
By George Fishman
Excerpt: Two very different views of “hyphenated Americanism” in the context of naturalized citizens were articulated in the 20th century, one by then-former President Theodore Roosevelt during World War I and the other in two Supreme Court rulings during and right after World War II. Given the Trump administration’s new focus on denaturalization, these contrasting perspectives could come into play if a case challenging the revocation of citizenship reaches the high court.
Texas Judge Orders Five-Year-Old Minnesota Boy, Father Released in Bizarre Order
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: Judges have the same flaws as the rest of us, but we expect them to be detached and rule clearly, especially when public passions are running hot.Judge Biery’s opinion releasing a five-year old detained by ICE with his father in Minnesota is just three pages long, and because it largely lacks legal analysis is readily accessible to the layman.
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