Center for Immigration Studies

A new report from depends on assumptions that are far more contestable than the report implies.

Immigration Projections: Only as Good as the Assumptions Behind Them A Yale think tank recently released a report titled “Lower Immigration Means Lower Productivity Growth”. It is based on the following logic: lower immigration means fewer working-age people; fewer working-age people means fewer potential entrepreneurs; fewer entrepreneurs means fewer new firms; ...

For decades aliens have ignored removal orders, only to rush to the BIA once ICE showed up.

Now such aliens may find themselves out of luck — and the Board will definitely have fewer dilatory, late-filed motions to deal with.

BIA Drops Hammer on Aliens Filing Late Motions to Reopen and to Stay Removal Orders As the Board of Immigration Appeals noted in 2017, there’s “an important public interest in the finality of immigration proceedings”. Despite that, for decades aliens have ignored removal orders, only to rush to the BIA once ICE showed up. After these recent BIA decisions, such aliens may find...

If the government’s charges are proven, his case will show that not all “DACAs” are honors students — or “good Americans” in all but status.

Feds Allege DACA Recipient Was Masterminded Behind Foiled WH Attack Unless and until he’s convicted, the government’s claims that DACA recipient Abraham Alvarez masterminded an attack on the White House during an event celebrating the country’s 250th birthday are just allegations, and he’s entitled to a presumption of innocence. But if the government’s cha...

When Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office — and “Border Czar” Tom Homan came back to DHS — they dove into the INA to use the long-ignored powers therein to deliver on the president’s immigration promises.

Aliens Convcited for Illegal Reentry — in Northern Ohio When Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office — and “Border Czar” Tom Homan came back to DHS — they dove into the INA to use the long-ignored powers therein to deliver on the president’s immigration promises. Congress gave DHS and DOJ the tools they need to enforce the immigration laws it ...

The U.S. Department of Justice has filed suit to revoke the naturalized citizenship of Manuel Rocha, the former American diplomat exposed in 2023 as a long-running espionage asset of Communist Cuba.

The Rocha Spy Case: Espionage and Conflicted Loyalty The Trump administration must require that dual-national officials renounce any second citizenship as a condition of holding a security clearance.

Claims that DHS under Trump II isn’t really removing the “worst of the worst” are fast becoming a tedious meme, but a recent News report takes the cake.

The Half-Baked, Exhausting Arguments About ‘Violent Felon’ Aliens Arrested under Trump II Both Trump and his “Border Czar” Tom Homan would love to fill all of ICE’s 60,000-plus detention beds with alien killers, rapists, robbers, assaulters, burglars, thieves, larcenists, and shoplifters, but when at least half (likely more) of all alien criminals are being held or were released in...

The Strange Case of #8:

This case isn't totally clear, but it's curious why the DOJ is only now trying to strip Neeraj Sharma of his naturalized citizenship and didn’t do so years ago when he purportedly pled guilty to immigration-related fraud.

The Strange Case of ‘Number 8’ on DOJ’s Latest Denaturalization List It’s a positive development that DOJ now treats U.S. citizenship as “a privilege” that “must be earned honestly”, but that should have always been true. If it took 47 administrations to get to this point, I’m a tad dismayed — and a little concerned about what happens when 48 shows up.

📊 New Report: Households headed by non-citizens access means-tested welfare programs at substantially higher rates than households headed by U.S.-born Americans in virtually every state.

Welfare Use by Non-Citizens Across States in the U.S. This report examines welfare use (means-tested anti-poverty programs) for households headed by non-citizens by state using the 2021 to 2025 Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS ASEC).

Proponents of TVPRA and SIJ contend they have the very best of intentions — protecting vulnerable migrant children.

Experience, however, has revealed that those schemes have, all too often, led to worse abuses than the harm they purported to address.

BIA: Illegal Alien Adult with Pending ‘Special Immigrant Juvenile’ Claim Is Subject to Detention Trump II is attempting to mitigate what it terms as “vulnerabilities in the integrity of the SIJ program”, including use of the special immigrant juvenile process by adult aliens seeking release from custody and indefinite unlawful stays in the United States. For now, the BIA is staying out of t...