What's Happening at the Center
Two new analyses by the Center for Immigration Studies estimate that there are 39,000 births a year to foreign students, guest workers and others on long-term temporary visas, plus an additional 33,000 births annually to tourists – totaling 72,000. Those born to these "non-immigrants," as the government refers to them, are awarded U.S. citizenship because they were born in United States and not because a parent was a U.S. citizen or a Lawful Permanent Resident (green card holders). These births are in addition to the nearly 300,000 births each year to illegal immigrants.
"Our analysis makes clear that the number of children born to visitors is not trivial; and over time the numbers are substantial," said Steven Camarota, the report's lead author and the Center's Director of Research. "It seems doubtful that the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment could have anticipated that tens of thousands of people each year would automatically be granted citizenship simply because their parents were on a temporary visit to the United States at the time of their birth."
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Pensacola Shooting Shows Limits of Foreign Vetting
By Andrew R. Arthur
On December 6, 2019, a 21-year-old second lieutenant in the Royal Saudi Air Force, Mohammed Alshamrani, committed what the FBI is investigating as an act of terrorism when he opened fire in a classroom at Pensacola Naval Air Station in Florida. Three were killed and eight were wounded in that incident. Alshamrani's actions underscore the need for more vetting of all foreign nationals coming to the United States, and at the same time the logic of the president's much-criticized travel restrictions.
Texas Rio Grande Wall Project by Crowdfunded Nonprofit Builder Runs Aground on Litigation
By Todd Bensman
The demand by President Trump's Office of the U.S. Attorney for a temporary work stoppage at the site near Mission, Texas, comes on the heels of a state judge's order that construction stop until separate objections by the National Butterfly Center upstream can be fully assessed. The upshot of these legal moves is that several miles of wall will not go up on the planned timeline of mid-January.
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Three EB-5 Applicants with Ties to North Korean, Iranian, and Chinese Militaries
By David North
The Center, long dubious about the EB-5 (immigrant investor) program, has now found three different EB-5 investors who have – apparently separately – made serious money while undermining U.S. national security through trade with North Korea, Iran, and China. Additionally, at least two of the investors are accused of using the EB-5 program to further launder their illegal proceeds.
Using the Military to Wedge Open the Door to Another Non-Amnesty Amnesty
By Dan Cadman
Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) has introduced a bill called the "Military Families Parole In Place Act", S. 2797. The bill proposes to oblige the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to grant immigration paroles, in one-year increments, to dependent family members of active-duty military, as well as of veterans who were not dishonorably discharged. Even if illegally in the United States, they would be allowed to stay, and if outside of the United States, the plain language of the bill would require their admission.
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Andrew Arthur, the Center's Resident Fellow in Law and Policy, discusses the shooting by a Saudi military trainee at Pensacola Navy base.
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