Share Tweet Share Panel Panama's Darien Gap:The Migration Chokepoint Details: The Center for Immigration Studies hosted a panel discussion at the Army Navy Club on December 7, 2021, discussing the remote area of the Darien Gap, the infamous jungle passage through which extra-continental migrants cross from South America to North America on their way to the United States southern border. Participants: Francisco Agapi, Mayor of Cemaco, Panama Rep.Tom Tiffany, 7th Congressional District of Wisconsin Michael Yon, award winning war correspondent Todd Bensman, the Center’s Texas-based Senior Research Fellow Report Deportations Plummet Under Biden Enforcement Policies By Jessica Vaughan CIS Report, December 6, 2021  Excerpt: The Center for Immigration Studies recently obtained detailed records on deportations from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, showing a collapse in immigration enforcement under policies imposed by the Biden administration. Commentary Joe Biden is turning a blind eye to illegal immigrants: An extreme drop in deportations has coincided with a nationwide crimewave By Mark Krikorian Unherd.com, December 10, 2021 Excerpt: When Joe Biden became president, his administration issued a series of directives to immigration agents to prioritise the worst criminals for deportation, so as to focus resources on the greatest threats to public safety. The goal was to decrease the (relatively small) number of illegal immigrant non-criminals who are deported, while increasing deportations of criminals. The Whole Justification for Sanctuary Cities Is Wrong: Data show that immigrants report crime like everyone else. By Steven A. Camarota and Jessica Vaughan National Review, November 25, 2021 Excerpt: Despite the Biden administration’s abandonment of nearly all interior enforcement, immigration laws are not obsolete statutes that should be ignored. Congress has enacted limits on immigration for good reasons, including to reduce job competition for the poorest and least-educated Americans and to avoid burdening public coffers. Local law enforcement has a role to play in the important national goal of enforcing immigrant laws. Podcast Panama's Darien Gap Moderator: Mark Krikorian Guests: Todd Bensman, Francisco Agapi, Rep. Tom Tiffany, and Michael Yon Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 32 Immigration’s Impact on Black Americans: A 200-Year Chronology Moderator: Mark Krikorian Guest: Roy Beck Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 31 Featured Blog Posts Inside a Most Unusual Mexican Migrant Camp By Todd Bensman Migrants are flocking to the "Senda de Vida" (Path of Life) migrant camp in Reynosa, Mexico, by the thousands, enticed by a cheaper, surer, more comfortable “queue-management” arrangement that is quietly getting many into the United States – legally through a port of entry. Refreshing: CBO Admits That Amnesty Will Cost $100 Billion-Plus By David North After spending a lifetime hearing from Open Borders types that immigration is an unmixed financial boost to this country it was refreshing to see the Congressional Budget Office agree that the proposed amnesty in the reconciliation bill, passed by the House on November 19, will cost taxpayers $133 billion. Where Have All the Haitians Gone? By Andrew R. Arthur It is questionable, at best, that any of the Haitian migrants who had resettled in Brazil and Chile had valid U.S. asylum claims. But the ones who had entered illegally believed that it was enough to just get into the United States, at which point their removal would be unlikely. When the odds of getting in dropped, and the odds of being returned to Haiti rose, they decided not to come. Map Shows How New Biden Policy Turns Every Community into an Illegal-Alien Sanctuary By Jon Feere A look at a section of downtown Washington, D.C., shows the new Biden policy would prevent immigration enforcement almost everywhere. More Blog Posts WSJ Describes a White House in Disarray on Immigration H-1B Outsourcing Company Spends $95M to Quell Fraud Charges Texas State Troopers “Overwhelmed” Securing the Border Marriage Fraud Fizzles, Attempted Murder Ensues CBO: House-Passed ‘Reconciliation’ Bill Will Amnesty 6.5 Million Illegal Aliens Biden Bans Travel from Eight African Countries Over ‘Omicron’ Covid Variant Poll Shows Concern Among Medicare/Social Security Voters About the Border CIS Submits Comment on DACA Proposed Rule Don’t Look Now, but ICE Is Deporting Some Central American Families by Air Fact-Checking the PolitiFact ‘Parole Amnesty’ Fact-Check Financial Dangers Faced by Citizens in Marriage-Related Immigration Fraud A Third of Recent H-1B Filings Seem Phony — the Grants Were Not Accepted by Employers Stopgap Funding Bill Includes $7 Billion for Afghans, $1.6 Billion for UACs Poll Shows Concern Among Medicare/Social Security Voters About the Border CBP: Migrants from Terror-Plagued Regions Are Crossing the Southern Border Border Disaster Offers Opportunities for Drug Traffickers Restricted Access to Refugee Statistics: Data Protection or Data Concealment? Biden to Restart ‘Remain in Mexico’ December 6 Full Fifth Circuit to Review Biden’s Interior Enforcement Restrictions Don’t Look Now, but ICE Is Deporting Some Central American Families by Air 20-Year Cost of 'Build Back Better' Amnesty: $483 billion Feds Tackle Huge Farmworker Scam That Should Never Have Occurred EB-5's Death Cycle: Three Gloomy Signs for the Program Increasing Numbers of Haitians Head to the U.S. by Sea Biden’s DHS Seems to Have Misled Federal Court About the Development of ICE Enforcement Policies The Chilling Implication of Biden’s Enforcement Policies Senate Confirms Biden’s CBP Commissioner Pick: But don’t expect the border crisis to recede Supreme Court Takes Up Reviewability of Discretionary Decisions No Vaccine Mandate for Illegal Aliens Feds Send Marriage-Fraud-Committing Alien Soldier to Jail and then Deport Her Why Are Speakers of One Mayan Language More Likely to Be Granted Asylum than Speakers of Another? ‘Immigration’ Top Issue in New Wall Street Journal Poll At Least 53 Migrants Dead, 50 Injured in Mexican Truck Crash Donate Copyright © 2021 Center for Immigration Studies, All rights reserved.  Want to change how you receive these emails? 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