New from the Center for Immigration Studies, 4/18/22

Share Tweet Share Report Ukrainian Refugees in Europe and the U.S. By Nayla Rush, April 14, 2022 Excerpt: This report offers an overview of the Ukrainian crisis and the millions of people fleeing to neighboring countries. It describes the European Union's response to those seeking protection in various countries in the region. It also highlights the U.S. response, which is primarily aimed at helping in their own region those displaced by the recent Russian attack. Podcast Ukrainian Refugees in Europe and the U.S. Host: Mark Krikorian Guest: Nayla Rush Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 49 Commentary How The Biden Administration Is Aiding And Abetting The Biggest Border Fraud In U.S. History By Todd Bensman The Federalist, April 11, 2022 Excerpt: The Biden government has publicly admitted that something bad will happen at the southwest border: an estimated 12,000 to 18,000 migrant apprehensions a day (versus the record-breaking 6,000 average now), or up to 540,000 a month (170,000 a month lately), and maybe six million by the end of 2022 (compared to the nationally historic two million apprehensions at the end of 2021). Featured Blog Posts Texas Hold-Em on Border Bridges By Todd Bensman In slowing truck traffic across the border from Mexico, is Texas trying to force action out of Washington and Mexico City to blunt the expected illegal migration surge (on top of the ongoing illegal migration surge) when Title 42 is lifted on May 23? New Migration Regulations Add to Both Amount and Speed of Migration By David North Rain in moderation is always a good thing; levels of migration, similarly, should be in moderation. Too much of either, particularly too much too rapidly, can lead to disaster. Usually we talk about migration in numerical terms, such as the annual arrival of one million-plus aliens, but there is another dimension, the speed of migration, that plays a hidden role.   RGV Border Disaster: Demoralized Agents, Angry and Despondent Residents By Andrew R. Arthur I just returned from the Rio Grande Valley (RGV), "ground zero" for the Southwest border crisis. I found beaten-down and demoralized Border Patrol agents and residents who are, by turns, angry and despondent. Both aimed their ire toward Washington — which is the source of their problems. How Many Americans Will Companies that Missed Out on the H-1B Lottery Hire? By Robert Law Foreign-worker programs are meant to supplement the American workforce when employers legitimately cannot meet labor needs after boosting wages and working conditions. Instead, users of the H-1B program use it to supplant their American workforce and cite the "high demand" as evidence to encourage Congress to give them access to more foreign workers. More Blog Posts Most Illegal Border Crossings Are Handled Skillfully — But Some Are Not House Panel Drops Interest in Diversity, but Leaves Visa Lottery in Place Is the H-2B Program Less Bad than the H-2A Program? Texas Building Its Own Border 'Wall' Under Biden DHS Has Released More Than 756,000 Southwest Border Migrants With Trucks and Buses, Texas Sends a Message to Washington and Mexico Mayorkas Grants Amnesty-Lite to Cameroonians Key Figure in Vermont's EB-5 Scandal Gets 18 months in Jail Where Are All the Biden Immigration Regulations? Del Rio Mounted Border Patrol Agents Cleared Polling Shows Trouble for Biden The United Farm Workers Get in a Time Machine and Cancel Themselves Todd Bensman discusses Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's week-old "enhanced safety inspections" operation at border bridges, which has significantly impeded international trade from Mexico and has led to a Mexican border-state governor seeking a deal to reduce illegal immigration on his side. Donate Copyright © 2022 Center for Immigration Studies, All rights reserved.  Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list. View this e-mail in your browser.

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