Share Tweet Share Commentary The Half-Baked Immigration Response to 9/11 By Mark Krikorian National Review, September 10, 2021 Excerpt: The 9/11 attacks were, at their heart, a failure of our immigration system. The 9/11 Commission staff report on the killers’ exploitation of immigration and border weaknesses (which the report called “terrorist travel”) started with these words: “It is perhaps obvious to state that terrorists cannot plan and carry out attacks in the United States if they are unable to enter the country.” Biden's Two-Step for Afghanistan Amnesty By Rob Law Newsweek, September 8, 2021 Excerpt: President Joe Biden's disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan encouraged a stampede approach to filling evacuation planes, instead of prioritizing Americans and green-card holders. In the ensuing chaos, 13 U.S. servicemembers died from a suicide bombing at the airport and countless Americans were stranded in Kabul after the last plane departed on August 31. Meanwhile tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of unvetted Afghans are being allowed into the United States. Podcast 20 Years After 9/11: Lessons Learned, Improvements Needed Moderator: Mark Krikorian  Guest: Todd Bensman Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 20 Featured Blog Posts Twenty Years After 9/11 and the REAL ID Act Still Isn’t in Effect By Jon Feere Despite the 9/11 Commission's warning that secure identification is an essential anti-terrorism tool, the deadline for states' compliance with federal driver's license standards has been extended repeatedly for two decades. Biden’s Afghan Terrorism Waiver: Madness, four days before the 20th anniversary of 9/11 By Andrew R. Arthur The Afghan proposals in Biden’s CR are madness, given the fact that they provide a pathway to a green card, and soon thereafter citizenship, for Afghan nationals some of whom who are — past, present, or future — terrorists, not to mention those who are child sex offenders or murderers. And, four days before the 20th anniversary of September 11th? The timing could not have been worse. Scoop: USCIS Considers Giving Afghans Work Permits First, Vetting Later By Rob Law This policy, if implemented, would tie the hands of adjudicators by requiring them to approve work permits with incomplete information and removing their discretionary authority to deny. Just days away from the 20th anniversary of 9/11, the Biden administration is considering actions that would make the country less safe, and using career immigration adjudicators to do it. An Afghan Vetting Failure — from 2008 By Todd Bensman In through a once-broken immigration front door that most Americans thought fixed after the 9/11 attacks came an Afghan doctor named Hayatullah Dawari, whose case is worth recalling on this 20th anniversary. More Blog Posts In Advance of 9/11 Anniversary, Americans Are Concerned About Terrorism SCOTUS’s ‘Shadow Docket’: Much Ado About Nothing by Those Who Should Know Better District Court Applies 5th Amendment to Aliens Outside the U.S.: If ruling stands, the only thing 'expedited removal' would expedite is asylum claims Biden Implementing ‘Remain in Mexico’ Lite Biden Wants Money from ICE and Border Patrol Agents to ‘Reunify’ Illegal Migrants Ancient Qui Tam Legal Approach Used to Enforce the Immigration Law Amnesty in the Reconciliation Bill Could Cost Social Security and Medicare $1 Trillion EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program Continues to Produce Negative News The Hispanic-American Incarceration Rate Has Fallen: But it remains relatively high even after adjusting for age and sex 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.