New from the Center for Immigration Studies, 2/7/22

Share Tweet Share Commentary Black Jobs Matter: Immigration reduction has always been the key to progress for the descendants of American slavery. By Mark Krikorian National Review, February 3, 2022 Excerpt: With only a handful of interruptions, black workers have faced the same situation for nearly two centuries — mass immigration of foreigners whom employers prefer to black workers, pushing them to the back of the hiring line. As it happens, "Back of the Hiring Line" is the title of a new book by Roy Beck, president of Numbers USA, the premier citizen-action group working to reduce immigration. The book traces, as its subtitle promises, "a 200-year history of immigration surges, employer bias, and depression of black wealth." Congressional Testimony Hearing: Biden Administration Open Borders Policy and Border Security Statement of Todd Bensman before Before the House Freedom Caucus, February 1, 2022 Excerpt: During its first year and now into its second, I have interviewed hundreds of the immigrants, most recently an eight-day fact-finding journey to the Guatemala-Mexico border city of Tapachula. From my vantage point, I can confidently report that there is but one root cause that they — the immigrating foreign nationals — most often cite for coming now: It is only that President Joe Biden opened the American southern border wide to them . . . Link to full written testimony Podcast How to Stop the Migrant Surge through Panama's Darien Gap Moderator: Mark Krikorian Guest: Chuck Holton Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 39 Featured Blog Posts Biden Administration Releases Its Blueprint for Dismantling the Border By Andrew R. Arthur The word "immigration" appears 120 times in that document, revealing how much of that document has to do with the subject. There are two key subjects therein that touch on the chaos at the Southwest border. Report: ICE Releases Border-Crossing Terrorist Suspect from Venezuela Despite FBI Recommendation By Todd Bensman A new and so-far undisputed news report has it that ICE headquarters in Washington, D.C., ordered the release of a Lebanon-born Venezuelan named Issam Bazzi who swam the Rio Grande into Brownsville, Texas, and then was flagged as being on the FBI's terrorism watchlist. Reportedly the reason for his release?    DHS Makes Available Yet Another 20,000 H-2B Visas By Robert Law Despite the document running 128 pages before Federal Register formatting, the "legal analysis" establishing the supplemental authority to issue these extra visas is buried in a footnote. The placement of this analysis in a footnote is curious if DHS truly believes its legal interpretation is sound. Report from the Migrant Trail in South America By Chuck Holton When the Trump administration instituted Title 42 expulsions in March 2020, many migrants decided to head south instead. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians, Venezuelans, and extra-continental migrants made their way to Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, and Chile. All these countries boast wages many times higher than the countries the migrants were fleeing, and so they were seen as acceptable substitutes for the United States. More Blog Posts It's Biden vs. DeSantis on Housing Illegal Migrant Children When 'Prosecutorial Discretion' Becomes Suspension of the Law Rulemaking by Announcement Rep. Biggs Releases Shocking Report on Sad State of Border Enforcement Biden Takes a Page from the Trump Playbook Donate