Share Tweet Share Congressional Testimony The Juvenile Justice Pipeline and the Road Back to Integration: Lax Border and Immigration Enforcement Strains the System Statement of Jessica M. Vaughan Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security U.S. House Judiciary Committee, May 13, 2021 Commentary Where Does Biden Go from Here on Immigration? By Mark Krikorian Real Clear Policy, May 10, 2021 Summary: The Biden administration has settled on three initiatives it hopes will remove the border crisis from the headlines. None of them is likely to work, but they're worth looking at in turn. Report Estimating Illegal Immigrant Receipt of Cash Payments from the EITC and ACTC By Steven Camarota and Karen Zeigler, May 13, 2021 Excerpt: Millions of illegal immigrants have Social Security numbers, potentially allowing them to receive cash payments from the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Additional Child Tax Credit. We estimate that illegal immigrants may receive between $3.8 and $4.5 billion from the two programs. This is in addition to the $4.4 billion we have previously estimated illegals likely received in stimulus checks this year. Podcasts "All You Americans Are Fired": The Controversial H-2B Guestworker Program Guest: Jessica M. Vaughan Moderator: Mark Krikorian Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 3, May 13, 2021 What I Saw at the U.S.–Mexico Border Guest: Todd Bensman Moderator: Mark Krikorian Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 2, May 6, 2021 Featured Blogs Buckets of Meth and the Guns in the Grass: ‘Guns come south, drugs go north’ — expect it to get worse as the number of migrants surges By Andrew R. Arthur Two recent events on May 5 underscore the crisis that is unfolding at the Southwest border. One involved a number of high-powered guns, the other buckets full of methamphetamine. Neither has received much attention, but both reveal the price that communities across the United States and Mexico are paying for a border situation that is out of control. EEOC Reaches Settlement in Yet Another 'No Americans Need Apply' Case By Jason Richwine The lawsuit against Helados La Tapatia is the latest in a long string of immigrant- or Hispanic-preference EEOC cases that I documented in a 2019 CIS report, entitled “EEOC Lawsuits: Employers Eager to Replace Low-Skill Native Workers with Immigrants: No Americans Need Apply”. New Harvard-Harris Poll Shows Broad Opposition to Biden’s Border Policies By Rob Law When asked, “Do you think the Biden administration’s executive actions on immigration encourage or discourage illegal immigration?”, by a 65-35 breakdown respondents said Biden’s actions encourage illegal immigration. Another Religious Entity Caught Abusing Its People and, this time, R-2 Visas By David North The current scandal relates to wages and working conditions at the construction site of a large Hindu temple in rural Robinsville, N.J., near Princeton. The workers involved are members of the caste now known as Dalits, a historically disadvantaged group once called “untouchables”. More Blog Posts Reports: Biden Not Keeping Border Governors in the Loop on the Crisis in Their Communities: While Texas Democrat questions the administration’s depiction of child detention The Peaks and Valleys of H-1B Visa Issuances in India Two Bits of Bad News on the H-1B Front DHS Quietly Withdraws Two Key Immigration Integrity Regulations Where Are CBP’s April Border Numbers?: Eleven days into May, Biden’s not keeping you and me ‘in the loop’, either Border Patrol Apprehensions at the Southwest Border Reach 21-Year Monthly High: Paging Jeh Johnson: If 1,000 daily apprehensions ‘overwhelms the system’, what do 5,782 do? Maryland’s ‘Dignity Not Detention Act’ Will Deliver Neither: Localities lose money, alien detainees lose family support, and the public will be less safe Is Prosecutorial Experience Now a Disqualifier for Federal Immigration Jobs? The Virus May Be Reducing Marriage-Related Immigration Fraud Surprising Takeaways in AP Article on Child Migrant Detention: Taxpayer-funded airline tickets for children flying alone, dangerous detention allegations, voluntary family separation, and truncated vetting times More Polling Shows Biden Vulnerable on Immigration More than 40,000 ‘Got-Aways’ at the Border in April: And we can’t stop most of the drugs entering illegally, but Mayorkas offers no suggestions for policy change Donate Copyright © 2021 Center for Immigration Studies, All rights reserved.  Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list. View this e-mail in your browser.