New from the Center for Immigration Studies, 4/19/21

Share Tweet Share What's the Real Problem at the Border? By Mark Krikorian National Review, April 12, 2021 Excerpt: In seeking more expeditious processing of illegal aliens at the border, the Biden administration is implementing an extra-legal increase in the number of de facto permanent residents of the U.S. That's the problem at the border, and to the extent the administration does anything to try to moderate it, it's only because of the political cost it is paying, not because it accepts it as a problem. Featured Blogs Ambassador Jacobson to Step Down as Border Co-Czar: With no clear policy from the administration, it's like plunging toilets on the Titanic By Andrew R. Arthur Enough's enough, and the Biden administration and Congress should recognize their own errors, and those of the courts, and change course, now. Jacobson's replacement ought to heed the advice of Mike Tyson, and advise the president to do so, too. It's Not Nice to Abandon Your Children — Another Look at the Border By David North Every time an "unaccompanied minor" crosses the border without his or her parents, we are dealing with parents abandoning their children. Sometimes the abandonment was in the past, when the parents left their kids behind (in, say, Central America) in a successful effort by the parents to come to the U.S. illegally; now they use coyotes to smuggle the kids into the U.S. to join them. Arizona Uses NEPA to Fight Biden's Poorly Thought-Out Immigration Policies By Julie Axelrod Yesterday, the state of Arizona took an important stand for the American environment. Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for implementing policies that have the direct effect of causing growth in the population of Arizona without conducting any analysis under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Facts and Charts Show How Bad the Southwest Border Was in March: And how it's likely to get a whole lot worse, which at $775 per migrant child per day may tax your wallet By Andrew R. Arthur If the border reached a "breaking point" in February of that year, what words could be used to describe it this year, when the total number of illegal migrants generally and of UACs in particular is significantly higher, and the number of migrants in family units is near comparable levels to where they were in March 2019? More Blog Posts Quinnipiac Polling Spells More Border Trouble for Biden: He should change his border policies, because he does not have much support to lose Polling Shows Immigration Opportunities for GOP in House 'Swing' Races: If things don't get better at the border, look for Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) Amid Border Crisis, U.S. Government Strikes at Pakistani Smuggler of 'National Security Risk' Migrants Masking Immigration Realities on Purpose Mayorkas Does the Right Thing with EB-5 Minimum Investment Donate