Panel
A new database of vetting failures
Panelists discuss security vulnerabilities, introduce new Center resource
Participants
Todd Bensman, Senior National Security Fellow, Center for Immigration Studies
Phillip Linderman, retired State Department senior foreign service officer
Robert Law, Director of the Center for Homeland Security and Immigration at the America First Policy Institute and former senior official at USCIS
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Report
Hiring Illegals Is a Crime
DOJ is guilty of a pattern and practice of failing to seek criminal penalties for employers who knowingly employ illegal aliens
By George Fishman, March 6, 2023
Excerpt: I recommend that Congress seriously consider two statutory changes to fulfill the failed promise of employer sanctions to turn off the jobs magnet for illegal immigration. The first would be to provide temporary legal status (and potentially lawful permanent residence) to illegal aliens who can provide critical information that can lead to the successful prosecution of their employers for employer sanctions violations. The second would be to provide the victims of employers who knowingly employ illegal aliens (such as American workers who are fired or not hired as a result of such unlawful employment) a private right of action to sue the employers for damages.
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Commentary
103 migrant kids are found abandoned in a trailer yet Democrats and media turn a blind eye
By Andrew R. Arthur
New York Post, March 9, 2023
Excerpt: Reports that 103 unaccompanied migrant children were found Sunday in an abandoned trailer in Mexico, coupled with a recent New York Times exposé on migrant child workers in the United States, casts a spotlight on an underreported aspect of the border disaster — the fate of the 325,000-plus alien children whom Customs and Border Protection officers have encountered at the southwest border since Joe Biden became president. If they were in the same school district, it would be the sixth-largest in America. Yet most in the press have ignored them.
The Border Crisis and Violent Crime
By Jason Richwine
American Greatness, March 9, 2023
Excerpt: Despite advocates’ repeated insistence that illegal immigrants do not threaten public safety, the evidence is not so clear. In fact, some data out of Texas suggest that illegal immigrants are convicted of homicide and sexual assault at higher rates than the state average.
Is Symbolism More Important than Pragmatism in Europe's Border Control?
By Viktor Marsai
National Interest, March 9, 2023
Excerpt: From the Hungarian-Serbian border to the Polish-Belorussian one, last year demonstrated that without fences it is almost impossible to mitigate the flow of irregular mass migration and implement effective border control.
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Podcast
Alternatives to Detention or Alternatives to Enforcement?
Host: Mark Krikorian
Guest: Jessica Vaughan
Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 95
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Featured Posts
What’s Going on With Title 42?
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: Justice Gorsuch likely spoke for many of his fellow justices when he asserted that “courts should not be in the business of perpetuating administrative edicts designed for one emergency only because elected officials have failed to address a different emergency.”
America Doesn’t Need ‘Immigration Reform’ — It Needs To Enforce The Laws We Already Have
By Todd Bensman
Excerpt: The puppet strings for the important control of illegal immigration all lead into the White House and, to a limited extent, Congress. Short of any appreciable congressional action, the White House becomes the default location where a mass migration is started and stopped.
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Mayorkas Acknowledges His Own Border Plan Is Borderline Fantasy
By George Fishman
Excerpt: The fact that Mayorkas and Garland even felt a need to promulgate the proposed asylum rule is indicative that it is a CYA maneuver in anticipation of the coming border mega-crisis with the lifting of Title 42.
What is the Border Patrol Chief Trying to Tell Us?
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: Like the prisoner of war in Vietnam who blinked out "T-O-R-T-U-R-E" in Morse code, Chief Ortiz seems to be trying to send a coded message to the outside world — that Border Patrol agents “continue to stay focused on the mission”, but are fighting a losing battle, thanks to the Biden administration.
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