Share Tweet Forward What's Happening at the Center In a recent report, Steven Camarota finds there are 2.1 million illegal immigrants who are eligible to receive pandemic relief payments. These individuals could receive $4.38 billion in stimulus money on behalf of themselves and their dependent children. In another recent report, Dr. Camarota and Karen Zeigler find that the age at which immigrants are arriving in America has increased dramatically since 2000. The average age of newly arrived legal and illegal immigrants was 31 years in 2019, compared to 26 years in 2000. The share of newcomers 55 and older was 11 percent in 2019, double the 5 percent in 2000. This trend among newcomers has increased the average age of all immigrants from 39 years to 46 years between 2000 and 2019. The immigrant population is aging more than twice as fast as the nation's overall population. Commentary If Cesar Chavez’s Bust Could Talk: Now more than ever, we need National Border Control Day By Mark Krikorian American Greatness, March 31, 2021 Excerpt: Chavez’s lifelong advocacy for tight borders and against illegal immigration are the reasons his birthday is increasingly celebrated as National Border Control Day. But the first lady isn’t likely to mention any of that, especially given her husband’s responsibility for sparking the current border disaster. Are Illegal Aliens Receiving COVID-19 Relief Checks? Yes Millions of immigrants known to be in the U.S. illegally are nonetheless issued Social Security numbers — and given money. By Steven A. Camarota National Review, March 29, 2021 Excerpt: Millions of illegal immigrants do have Social Security numbers (SSNs), and they will receive billions of dollars in stimulus money. But leave the money aside for now and consider the more basic problem: The U.S. government has chosen to issue SSNs to millions of people who are not even supposed to be in the country. It’s a clear indication that America is simply not serious about enforcing its immigration laws.   Featured Blogs How Illegal Immigrants Are End-Running Mexico’s Vaunted National Guard Cordon: And why President Biden’s costly investment to have Mexico secure its Guatemala border may never work By Todd Bensman With virtual diplomacy, an in-person delegation, and taxpayer cash, President Joe Biden has tried to induce Mexico to halt a fast-rising flood of immigration across its southern border as a means to ease the mounting mass-migration crisis on the U.S. southern border. More Immigration Newspeak: Associated Press Edition By Rob Law The situation at the border is a crisis. Large numbers of illegal aliens trying to enter the United States is harmful, both economically as well as for health reasons while Covid-19 continues to be a public health threat. "Surge" or "flood" are accurate metaphors for the record numbers of illegal aliens. Catch-and-Bus: Thousands of Freed Border-Crossing Immigrants Are Dispersing Across America: Charters and Greyhound are delivering them where they want to go By Todd Bensman The buses steadily rolling out of Del Rio represent a microcosm of a much broader aspect of the unfolding border crisis that has attracted limited coverage: Thousands of illegal border-crossers released under President Biden's new leniency policy are now dispersing to four corners of the U.S. on buses. Border Crisis Second in Importance Only to Covid-19 for Voters: 70 percent want Biden to deal with the border — Americans hate chaos, and don’t want to be suckers By Andrew R. Arthur The Biden administration has the good fortune to have Trump-era CDC Title 42 orders — issued in response to the pandemic — to fall back on for now. They require the expulsion of migrants who are entering illegally, and the Biden administration used them to quickly expel more than 70,000 of the almost 97,000 migrants the Border Patrol apprehended at the Southwest border in February. 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