Center for Immigration Studies

Security Risk: The Unprecedented Surge in Chinese Illegal Immigration

House Homeland Security Committee, Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations and Accountability

In the three years since the president’s inauguration ending in March 2024, DHS’s alluring quick-release policies resulted in more than 50,000 Border Patrol encounters with Chinese nationals, at escalating monthly rates surpassing 4,500 and reaching nearly 6,000 during calendar year 2024.

Panel: The How and Why of the Mayorkas Impeachment

Featuring Rep. Mark Green, Chairman of House Homeland Security Committee

The Center for Immigration Studies hosted a panel to discuss the history and impact of the impeachment of Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas. Should he have been impeached? Why was he impeached? What are the consequences of the U.S. Senate’s refusal to either hold a trial itself or to appoint an impeachment trial committee to take and consider evidence?

The UN’s Palestinian Refugee Agency

Funded and Advised by the State Department’s Refugee and Migration Bureau

The issue of Palestinian refugees is important, not just in the obvious foreign policy sense, but also to U.S. migration and refugee policy. This report offers an overview of UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees’ history, financing, staff, and institutional culture.

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149 Words in Sen. Lankford’s ‘Border Act’ Could Help Curtail the Biden/Mayorkas Border Fiasco

So what’s not to like? The other 20,583 words

The failed Senate bill contains provisions that act like a fifth column to sabotage the measure’s summary removal authority from within.

Topics: Biden Border Crisis, Senate Legislation

27 Migrants Rescued from Horse Trailer in Texas

Unspeakable inhumanity has become mundane — and you have a choice how to respond

It’s regrettable that stories like this have become so common in the midst of the chaos at the Southwest border that the inhumanity there is now mundane and “unnewsworthy”. It’s up to us all to reverse this trend.

Topics: Biden Border Crisis

Will Panama’s New President Really ‘Close’ the Darien Gap?

An analysis of this potential game-changer for America’s border crisis

If he sticks to it, expect a global media campaign against him from the UN and NGOs that profit from the flow of illegals.

Topics: Biden Border Crisis

How Did an Alien Accused of Murder Both Here and Abroad Get Into the United States?

And why doesn’t anybody care about a savagely slain migrant mother and toddler?

How many other migrant fugitives from crime abroad were among the got-aways at the Southwest border, and how many future victims are thus doomed to meet the alleged fates of this mother and child. Don’t expect to get answers from most in the national media.

Topics: Criminal Aliens

DOJ Just Turned the ‘Rocket Docket’ Back on for a Few, but Simultaneously Issued a Rule that Will Slow Down the Immigration Court System for All

The Biden administration announcement that it was fast-tracking some deportation cases was paired with a new rule that will slow down all deportation cases.

Topics: Immigration Courts

NBC News: Admin Scrapping 2004 Directive that Hobbles DHS Terrorist Enforcement

I warned the ‘Ridge Memo’ was dangerous back in December, but it may be too late because a lot of lights are now ‘blinking red’

Kudos to the Biden administration for finally waking from its self-imposed slumber to address the border terror threat both FBI Director Wray and I warned about in December. The problem is that recent incidents suggest it may already be too late to answer all the blinking red lights.

Topics: National Security