New from the Center for Immigration Studies, 2/16/21

Share Tweet Forward The Center for Immigration Studies hosted a panel on one of the most politicized, taboo, and chronically misunderstood threats to the U.S. Southwest Border: the national security risk posed by long-haul illegal border entry of migrants from nations of terrorism concern in the Middle East, South Asia, and North Africa.  The starting point for conversation is a new book, America's Covert Border War, The Untold Story of the Nation's Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration, by Todd Bensman, Senior National Security Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies. Featured Blogs ICE Records Reveal Disturbing Impact of Biden Enforcement Freeze By Jessica Vaughan If the new Biden deportation policies had been in force and applied to ICE's 2018 interior caseload, 96.5 percent of those removed from the interior would not have been subject to removal. This is not because these aliens are harmless or sympathetic cases. After all, ICE's interior caseload is already comprised primarily of convicted criminals. The Loaded Use of the Term 'Family Reunification' By David North The concept of the family being in one place while the kids are young, a noncontroversial notion, is not what the Open Borders types have in mind.   Biden's DHS Is Abolishing ICE Without Abolishing ICE: Officers 'now being told to enforce nothing' By Andrew R. Arthur It is not as if ICE officials had untrammeled authority to grab whomever they wanted off of the street under Trump. ICE could only arrest, detain, and remove aliens your elected representatives said that they could arrest, detain, and remove. Report Understates No-Show Rates in Immigration Court: Immigration lawyers' group uses skewed method to determine share of in absentia removals By Andrew R. Arthur A more accurate reading of the data reveals a no-show rate that is double that claimed by the American Immigration Council, with more than one-third of case completions over an 11-year period resulting in in absentia orders of removal. More Blog Posts A New Migrant Caravan Is Forming – And Biden Hopes to Crush It Without Leaving His Fingerprints Why Removable Aliens Should Be Arrested and Deported: ICE must not 'close its eyes to ongoing violations of the law', or the immigration system will fail EB-5 Falsehoods and Failures: Regional Centers and Hudson Yards Double Bad News, but Not Unexpected Bad News Why Didn't WaPo Mention Huge Drop in ICE Enforcement Under Trump?: Narrative driving bad policy — many more aliens without convictions were arrested by ICE most years under Obama Donate Copyright © 2021 Center for Immigration Studies, All rights reserved.