Commentary
Biden’s Year One in Immigration
By Mark Krikorian
National Review, January 20, 2022
Excerpt: The disaster at the border exceeds anything we’ve ever seen, with close to 1.7 million arrests at the southern border in fiscal 2021. But part of that fiscal year was under Trump; as of today, during the Biden’s first 365 days, arrests at the southern border will total a whopping 2 million.
DeSantis is right about the cost of illegal immigration
By Jason Richwine
Tallahassee Democrat, January 24, 2022
Excerpt: DeSantis is right to be concerned. Although illegal immigration poses many challenges, the increase in state expenditures is perhaps the most immediate one. In a recent report for the Center for Immigration Studies, I calculated that Florida spent approximately $2 billion in 2019 on major health and education programs for the nearly 800,000 immigrants who lived in the state illegally before the recent surge.
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Podcast
Texas Think Tank Focuses on Chaos at the Border
Moderator: Mark Krikorian
Guest: John Hostettler
Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 37
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Featured Blog Posts
In Mexico’s Deep South, the United Nations Explains Handing Cash to U.S.-Bound Migrants
By Todd Bensman
Every day, word of the UN’s cash assistance draws long lines of hopeful U.S.-bound migrants to a large, grey building in Tapachula staffed by application-takers and interviewers who determine who gets the money.
Magistrate Who Trashed Obama/Trump EB-5 Reforms Gets Judgeship
By David North
It may be a total coincidence, but the magistrate judge (a civil servant) who last year trashed the EB-5 reforms backed by both the Obama and the Trump administrations has just been nominated to the U.S. District Court in California and her nomination has been sent to the Senate floor by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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President Biden’s First Year of Immigration Policy
By Robert Law
Today, January 20, 2022, marks one year since Joe Biden was inaugurated as the 46th president. He entered office with an approval rating around 60 percent, which was lower than Barack Obama’s but noticeably higher than Donald Trump’s approval rating upon assuming the Oval Office.
CBP Released More than 55,000 Migrants at the Border in December
By Andrew R. Arthur
More than 35,600 illegal migrants encountered by CBP at the Southwest border were issued NTAs, so that they soon will appear on the immigration courts’ dockets, too. Extrapolating out, that suggests that immigration judges will have to deal with almost 440,000 new Southwest border cases in a year.
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Migrant Pipeline to the U.S.: Crisis Continues, Hidden from the Public
Todd Bensman reports from Mexico's southern border
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Andrew R. Arthur testifies before the House Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship against the idea of removing the immigration courts from the Department of Justice and making them independent Article I courts.
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