New from the Center for Immigration Studies, 2/18/20

Featured Posts The Impact of Non-Citizens on Political Representation in the House of Representatives  By Steven A. Camarota and Karen Zeigler At present, the apportionment of House seats to each state and the drawing of district lines are based on total population — not citizenship. The nation's 22 million non-citizens, slightly less than half of whom are here illegally, are not evenly distributed across congressional districts. Four Shrinking Universities that Major in Foreign Students By David North For reasons unknown — certainly not because of actions taken by the Department of Homeland Security — four universities that major in foreign students, and provide them with federally subsidized work permits, have shrunk in one way or another in the last couple of years. House Envy: The Unacknowledged Real Motivation Behind Guatemala's Mass Migration to the American Border  By Todd Bensman The Domingo family's long-term plan to send sons and daughters — small children at the time — to work in the United States when they grew up took root a decade ago, when a neighbor built an ornate mansion among the traditional mud-brick homes typical of this highland Guatemalan village of indigenous Mayan descendants. New York's 'Green Light' To Crime and Terrorism By Andrew R. Arthur The "Green-Light" law significantly undermines the federal government's efforts to secure our borders, and to identify aliens unlawfully present in the United States. Preventing illegal aliens from obtaining valid identification documents is key to that effort, because without those documents, it will be difficult, if not impossible, for those aliens to live in the United States illegally. Jump-Starting the Federal Engine to Push Back Against Sanctuaries By Dan Cadman William Barr, attorney general of the United States, has announced a series of steps that are designed to push back, and ultimately crush, the so-called "sanctuary" movement by state and local jurisdictions, which purport to "make communities safer" but in fact do nothing but provide shelter for alien criminals to continue to damage and victimize those communities. Honduras Intensifies Border Security to Counter Illegal Immigration By Jason Peña In the past six months, the government of Honduras has implemented a wave of border security measures to prevent migrants from entering. Honduran law enforcement began fortifying vulnerable border regions with new physical barriers and Migration Control Police Force personnel. More Blog Posts Reports on the Number of Subsidized OPT Workers Are Opaque and Tardy New York City Shooting Proves the Dangers of Sanctuary Policies New York's 'Green-Light Law': A Boon to Frat Boys Ecuador Moves to Limit Crimes Committed by Foreign Nationals Almost Seven Out of 10 Families Are No-Shows in 10 Immigration Courts The President's SOTU Address Highlights the Evil of Sanctuaries  The View from the Family Detention Center in Dilley  A Proposed Charter School, with Both EB-5 and Gulen Cult Ties, Is Doomed An Exchange of Comments about a California University  Tent Courts Aren't Tents - and Provide Due Process U.S. Secrets Continue to Hemorrhage through Flawed Policies Governing Students, Scholars, and Institutions of Research and Learning The View from Laredo DHS Experiments with Chinese EB-5 Applications - What Happens Next?  Business Colleague of Jared Kushner Charged in EB-5 Suit  U.S. Invokes Visa Sanctions Against Six Nations Video: Jerry Kammer, Senior Research Fellow at the Center, discusses his forthcoming book on the evolution of the Democratic immigration policy stance and the current legislative debate. Visit Website