Upcoming Panel: The How and Why of the Mayorkas Impeachment

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

The Center for Immigration Studies will host 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, as well as its various scandals, including its ties to Hamas.

Biden’s Border Crisis: Examining the Impacts of International Cartels Targeting Indian Country

U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources, Sub-committee on Oversight and Investigations

The mass migration crisis instigated by the Biden administration’s irresponsible immigration policies has caused incalculable harm to American communities, including those in Indian Country, even those far from the border.

Body Cameras for ICE?

Program inspired by anti-ICE members of Congress is being rolled out despite pilot showing no benefit

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has announced that it will deploy 1,600 body-worn cameras to its two law enforcement components, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).

Panel: Illegal Immigration by Sea

And you thought land borders were hard to defend . . .

With the crisis in Haiti sparking fears of a new exodus and illegal crossings up in the Mediterranean, maritime illegal immigration is a challenge all destination countries are facing – one that is very different from the challenge of controlling a land border.

Panel: The Mayorkas Impeachment
Panel: The Mayorkas Impeachment
The UN’s Palestinian Refugee Agency
The UN’s Palestinian Refugee Agency
House Hearing: Biden's Border Crisis
House Hearing: Biden's Border Crisis
Body Cameras for ICE?
Body Cameras for ICE?
Panel: Illegal Immigration by Sea
Panel: Illegal Immigration by Sea

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

The Center for Immigration Studies will host 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?

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, as well as its various scandals, including its ties to Hamas.

U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources, Sub-committee on Oversight and Investigations

The mass migration crisis instigated by the Biden administration’s irresponsible immigration policies has caused incalculable harm to American communities, including those in Indian Country, even those far from the border.

Program inspired by anti-ICE members of Congress is being rolled out despite pilot showing no benefit

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has announced that it will deploy 1,600 body-worn cameras to its two law enforcement components, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).

And you thought land borders were hard to defend . . .

With the crisis in Haiti sparking fears of a new exodus and illegal crossings up in the Mediterranean, maritime illegal immigration is a challenge all destination countries are facing – one that is very different from the challenge of controlling a land border.

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David North, 1929-2024

By CIS on April 30, 2024

Our colleague David North passed away over the weekend.

David was the dean of immigration researchers in the United States, having first encountered the foreign worker issue at the state level, in New Jersey, in the late 1950s.

Pushing Back Indirectly Against the Biden Administration’s Unlawful CBP One Programs

No ID, no airplane ride

With little immediate prospect of directly curbing the Biden administration's unlawful abuse of parole to admit hundreds of thousands of inadmissible aliens, one proposal would address the issue indirectly, by prohibiting TSA from letting such aliens board planes without proper identification, as happens now.

ICE Immigration-Enforcement Officers Thumb Noses at HSI ‘Rebrand’

ERO head refuses to engage in ‘political theater’ — and poll shows public support for his mission

Even as the Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) portion of ICE tries to distance itself from the immigration part of its mission, the head of its sister unit within ICE, Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), refuses to play political games.

Schools with the Highest Foreign Student Populations

In the light of pro-Hamas protests, does ICE have the capacity to monitor such large numbers?

As admissions become increasingly competitive, Congress should consider whether it would make sense to limit the number of foreign students that can be enrolled at America’s educational institutions, in total numbers and/or as a percentage of any institution’s overall enrollment.