What's Happening at the Center
Ken Cuccinelli, Acting Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, was featured in an Immigration Newsmaker conversation recently hosted by the Center for Immigration Studies. Since taking the position, Cuccinelli has moved quickly to ensure compliance with immigration laws on the books and to provide guidance to clarify current regulations and policies to asylum officers and others. He made headlines recently announcing new "public charge" regulations, clarifying the law for prospective immigrants on qualifying for lawful permanent residence (green cards).
The conversation, which can be seen here, was moderated by Mark Krikorian and covered topics such as public charge, work permits, processing of asylum claims, backlogs, fees, fraud, and E-Verify.
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Nine Illegal-Alien Sex Assaults since Montgomery County, Md., Sanctuary Policy Declared
By Andrew R. Arthur
I have been covering Montgomery County's sweeping new sanctuary policy, the illogic of which has been underscored by a series of arrests for sexual assault in the county since that policy was announced on July 22, 2019. The issue has simply gotten worse: There have now been nine sexual-assault arrests in Montgomery County since July 25 of illegal aliens.
Trial to Begin for Somali Who Crossed the U.S.-Mexico Border and Committed Alleged Vehicle Ram in Canada
By Todd Bensman
Somali national Abdulahi Hasan Sharif, 32, is going to trial in Edmonton, the scene of two September 30, 2017, attacks in which he, as the driver, plowed two different vehicles into a police officer (whom he had then stabbed) and four other citizens, seriously injuring all. Over the past year, my colleague Art Arthur and I have repeatedly pressed for answers as to how Sharif was able to have himself smuggled to Mexico's northern border, cross over into California for an asylum claim that was never adjudicated, then gain refugee status in Canada.
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Foreign Students of Two Compromise Colleges and One Wannabe
By David North
While most foreign students in the United States get an adequate college education, a minority are exposed to substandard schools, while routinely working in the U.S. economy, a situation we have covered in the past. There's a start-up university in Northern Virginia that wants to receive tuition from foreign students, but can't do so.
Are TPS Lobbyists Paid by a Foreign Government?
By Dan Cadman
El Salvador's President, Nayib Bukele, and a lobbying group that calls itself the National TPS Alliance. They are seeking to persuade Congress to amend the immigration laws to permit the granting of green cards to all of the various nationals from countries subject to loss of TPS. I find this interesting in light of the bilateral agreement recently inked between the United States and El Salvador, which provides for that country's help in acting as a safe third country/staging area to host amnesty applicants from Central America's Northern Triangle.
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Ken Cuccinelli, Acting Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, was featured in an Immigration Newsmaker conversation recently hosted by the Center for Immigration Studies.
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