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Reports
Education Level of Newly Arrived Immigrants Has Declined ([link removed])
Trend driven by the huge increase in illegal immigration from Latin America from 2021 to 2024 ([link removed])
By Steven A. Camarota and Karen Zeigler, May 21, 2026
Excerpt: Of adult immigrants (legal and illegal) who arrived in the first part of 2024, 39 percent had at least a bachelor’s degree, down from 48 percent of those who arrived in 2019, before the border surge. Of those who arrived in 2024, 45 percent had no education beyond high school, an increase from 36 percent in 2019. The years 2022 to 2024 are the first time in more than a decade that new immigrants with no education beyond high school outnumbered those with a bachelor’s degree.

Preventing the Naturalization of National Security Threats: The 1798 Solution ([link removed])
Would a longer wait before citizenship give more time to see applicants’ true colors? ([link removed])
By George Fishman, May 21, 2026
Excerpt: If enhanced vetting is not a silver bullet, what of the “1798 Solution”? It has not always been the case that the waiting period before eligibility to naturalize was five years. From 1798 to 1802, it was 14 years. What if Congress were to require lawful permanent residents to wait a significantly longer amount of time before becoming eligible to naturalize?
Journal Article
Published in American Affairs:
The Employment Effects of Immigration Enforcement: An Initial Assessment ([link removed])
By Steven A. Camarota and Jason Richwine, May 21, 2026
Excerpt: Based on our view of the data, the theorized benefits of reduced immigration, such as drawing more low-skill natives back into the labor force, may be beginning to emerge. But in order to fully realize these gains, a sustained policy of low immigration will be necessary over the long term.
Commentary
Published in the Washington Examiner:
Eliminating Fraud Will Not Fix OPT ([link removed])
By Elizabeth Jacobs, May 20, 2026
Excerpt: Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s new crackdown on fraud in the Optional Practical Training program is a welcome development. But even if DHS succeeds in rooting out fraud and abuse, it still will not solve the program’s far more fundamental problems.
Parsing Immigration Policy Podcast
Birthright Citizenship Analysis Ahead of Supreme Court Decision ([link removed])
Host: Mark Krikorian
Guest: Richard Epstein, Emeritus Professor at the New York University School of Law and the University of Chicago Law School and Senior Fellow at the Civitas Institute at the University of Texas at Austin
Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 255
Featured Posts
Trump to Banks: Illegal Aliens Are Bad Credit Risks ([link removed])
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: With Biden gone, the government is no longer threatening lenders who believe illegal aliens aren’t great credit risks. In fact, Trump is now telling banks they must consider whether borrowers who might be deported tomorrow will pay off their loans in the future — or risk the stability of “our financial system”.

The Fake Cartel Sicario in the Real Prosecution of an Alleged Iraqi Terrorist ([link removed])
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: Nothing in the Al-Saadi complaint claims cartels have carried out attacks on behalf of organizations more commonly thought of as “foreign terrorists” in this country, but it certainly suggests they may and — if the contentions in that document are true — at least one high-ranking terrorist leader tried to do just that.
Big Banks and the U.S. Treasury Have Been Enabling Illegal Immigration for Two Decades ([link removed])
By George Fishman
Excerpt: On Tuesday, President Trump issued an Executive Order in which he proclaimed that “My Administration will not … permit risks to our financial system posed by the extension of credit or financial services to the inadmissible and removable alien population.”

GAO Report Confirms Everything the Center Told You About Biden’s Parole Schemes ([link removed])
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: Kudos to Congress for passing the Laken Riley Act to ensure that future administrations can’t subvert parole to suit their political interests as Biden’s DHS did, and to GAO for highlighting the scope and impacts of the last administration’s parole release policies. Modestly, all of these harms could have been averted if those in a position to stop those policies had just followed cis.org.
More Blog Posts
* DHS and DOJ Begin Imposing (Often Massive) Fines on Aliens Who Refuse to Leave ([link removed])
* Minnesota Battle Brewing Over State Pardon for Alien with 1992 Assault Conviction ([link removed])

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