Share Tweet Share Commentary Biden’s border plan lets everyone in — but hides it from the public By Mark Krikorian New York Post, April 26, 2022 Excerpt: A surge in crossings at the border is OK with Biden and his people; what they fear is how it will look to the public: the additional disorder, the crowding in holding centers, the news photos like those of Haitians camped under the bridge in Del Rio, Texas, last fall. It’s a political problem, not a policy one. Title 42 Isn’t Going Anywhere, but Why Are Republicans Helping Biden? By Mark Krikorian National Review, April 20, 2022 Excerpt: The Democratic Party establishment has become alarmingly radical on immigration in recent years, even before Trump. Continuing Republican support for Title 42 merely helps the Biden administration hide that radicalism from voters. The Republicans’ goal should not be muddling through on immigration, in hopes that today’s historic disaster at the border doesn’t turn into tomorrow’s biblical mega-disaster. Instead, what’s needed is political clarity, in order to either force a reversal of Biden’s radical approach to immigration, or expose it and let the voters render their judgment. Biden’s Relaxed New Border Rules Mean Baltimore Residents Would Qualify for Asylum By Andrew R. Arthur New York Post, April 29, 2022  Excerpt: In 2018, Donald Trump’s attorney general, Jeff Sessions, applied existing law to set standards migrants must meet to receive asylum. Shortly after he took office, Biden’s new AG, Merrick Garland, erased those standards and expanded asylum eligibility to cover victims of the sorts of gang violence that plagues numerous crime-ridden US cities. Biden Exploits Ukraine Crisis to Circumvent U.S. Immigration Law By Robert Law Townhall, April 29, 2022 Excerpt: Russia invaded Ukraine about two months ago, resulting in millions of Ukrainians fleeing to escape the war. Neighboring countries have responded admirably, opening their borders and offering refuge. That is what true humanitarian immigration relief looks like. In contrast, the Biden administration is exploiting Americans’ sympathies for the Ukrainian people to permanently resettle over 100,000 of them in the United States in violation of our immigration laws. Congressional Testimony Hearing: Oversight of Federal Efforts to Combat Human Trafficking Statement of Jessica Vaughan U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security, April 27, 2022 Excerpt: Human trafficking is a horrific crime that our society must strive to eradicate. In his update to the National Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking last December, President Biden declared his commitment to “keeping the fight to end human trafficking at the forefront of our national security agenda.” Yet at the same time, the President has instigated a historic collapse of border security and immigration enforcement that has actually invited and facilitated human trafficking in numerous forms . . . Link to full written testimony Podcast Buying a Green Card Just Got More Expensive Host: Mark Krikorian Guests: George Fishman and David North Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 51 Mexican Border States Cry 'Uncle', Cut Immigration Deals with Texas Host: Mark Krikorian Guest: Todd Bensman Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 50 Featured Blog Posts Gallup: 60 Percent of Americans Are Concerned About Illegal Immigration By Jon Feere A plurality of Democrats may not be bothered by the prospect of 2.5 million illegal migrants at the Southwest border this year, but their votes alone will not be sufficient to ensure Democratic control of the House and Senate come January. 42 Skiddo: Is the Biden Administration Expelling Border Security? By George Fishman CDC recognizes that the Termination of the ... [Title 42] Order will lead to an increase in the number of noncitizens [read: illegal aliens] being processed in DHS facilities which could result in overcrowding in congregate settings. Nearly 1.06 Million CBP Encounters at Southwest Border Thus Far in FY 2022 By Andrew R. Arthur The president may indeed have a border plan. It’s just one that focuses on the interests of the migrants themselves — not on the consequences of unrestrained illegal migration on our national security and sovereignty, or on the illegality that follows in its wake. Huge Marriage-Related Immigration Fraud Ring Exposed by the Government By David North Unfortunately, and again this is a pattern, those indicted did not include any of the bribed citizens or the bribing aliens, just the middlemen. Whether any of the alien bribers will be deported cannot be known at this time.  More Blog Posts CBP March Numbers: Border Patrol Apprehensions Hit 22-Year Records How Many Criminal Aliens with Gun Crime Records Is the Biden Administration Allowing to Run Free? More on the ‘Jobs’ at Companies that Lost Out in the H-1B Lottery ICE’s Foreign Student Division Extends Pandemic Policy Through Summer 2023 Biden Administration Wasted $17 Million on Unused Hotel Rooms for Illegal Migrants UK’s Wild Version of Our ‘Remain in Mexico’ Policy for Asylum Seekers A Modest Proposal for ‘Remain in Mexico’ that Even Biden Would Like Extending ORR Benefits and Beneficiaries Is DHS Involved in ‘Mission Creep’ Regarding Drones? Republican Governors Form ‘Border Strike Force' DHS Secretary Mayorkas Releases Unserious ‘Plan for Southwest Border Security and Preparedness’ EB-5 Roundup U.S. Government Now Publishing Terrorist Watch List Encounters at American Land Borders What the Border Will Be Like Post Title 42 Top House Republicans Rip Mayorkas Uncle Sam Wants YOU! A Bizarre Effort to End Child Marriages — an Unfaced Immigration Problem Mark Krikorian discusses some of the experiences on the Center for Immigration Studies 2022 Border Tour of the Rio Grande Valley, from Roma to the Gulf of Mexico. Mark Krikorian discusses immigration policy on CSPAN's Washington Journal. Donate Copyright © 2022 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.