Reports
Amnesty Would Impose Large Costs on Social Security and Medicare
By Jason Richwine, April 5, 2021
Excerpt: Under current law, illegal immigrants are net contributors to Social Security and Medicare because they partially pay in to entitlement programs but cannot legally receive benefits. By granting eligibility for benefits, however, amnesty would transform illegal immigrants from net contributors into net beneficiaries, imposing steep costs on the Social Security and Medicare trust funds.
A Biden Plan for the Northern Triangle: What would a program to discourage illegal migration look like?
By David North, April 7, 2021
Excerpt: In this report, we explore how the proposed economic assistance funds could be best used to target the root causes of illegal immigration, emphasizing the need for a data-driven plan that would include a Covid-19 vaccination program, an export-expansion program, crime control and family-planning efforts, and a cash payment program for people who agree, on pain of imprisonment, not to go to the U.S.
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Commentary
Open Border Aids COVID Fraud Crime Surge
By Jessica Vaughan
Inside Sources, March 30, 2021
Excerpt: Many of these schemes originated within transnational criminal organizations, either abroad or by operatives who live here, which is why ICE and CBP have taken the lead in cracking down on this problem, making use of powerful immigration authority where foreign citizens are involved. The success of Operation Stolen Promise is on par with similar success they have had in dismantling immigrant gangs like MS-13, and shutting down birth tourism rackets, diploma mills for fake foreign students, and counterfeit document rings.
CBP Removes Press Release About Migrants on the U.S. Terror Watch List Who Crossed the Southern Border
By Todd Bensman
The Investigative Project on Terrorism, April 7, 2021
Amid a gathering mass-migration crisis on the southern border comes a U.S. Customs and Border Protection announcement Monday that two Yemeni nationals who illegally crossed from Mexico into California were already on the FBI's terrorism watch list before their arrivals. The agency removed the statement within 24 hours with no explanation, but too late . .
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Featured Blogs
Why the Supreme Court Needs to Assert Itself Over the Public Charge Rule
By Jason Richwine
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas recently teamed up with a lower-court judge to perform an act of bureaucratic magic—they made the public charge rule disappear. The instant demise of one of the Trump Administration’s signature policies illustrates how immigration advocates have so effectively allied with the judiciary to frustrate enforcement.
Border Patrol Apprehensions in March at 20-Year High: Unaccompanied children doubled from February, while families increased by 174 percent
By Andrew R. Arthur
The numbers of migrants apprehended at the border is on the upswing, and will get worse before it gets better—assuming it ever does.
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President Biden's Misunderstanding of Migration Matters
By Nayla Rush
In his first press conference, President Biden addressed the ongoing flows of Central American migrants entering the United States illegally. His remarks generated numerous commentaries to which I'm adding a couple of my own.
Border Crossing Data Has Disappeared Since Biden Arrived
By David North
Maybe it's a coincidence, but (legal) border-crossing data, once supplied monthly by the Department of Homeland Security and published by the Department of Transportation, has disappeared since the arrival of President Biden. As of April 6, the most recent data available on the DoT website is for last December, which ended almost 100 days ago. Is this bureaucratic non-performance or is it deliberate?
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Todd Bensman joins Glenn Beck to discuss who is currently crossing the border, just how dangerous Mexican cartels have become, and why migrants are flooding into America now.
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