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SCOTUS today issued two immigration decisions, siding with the Trump admin in cases involving asylum and TPS, while earlier this week also clarifying the authority of CBP officers to parole returning green card holders facing criminal charges.
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President Trump issued an executive order indicating that he will focus on using the Alien Enemies Act to combat international cartels that have become entwined with “mafia states”.
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BREAKING: Texas to Deploy Marine Barrier in the Rio Grande to Block New Surge of Immigrants
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1/ Twitter is not allowing us to promote any tweets including the phrase "illegal alien(s)", citing it as Hateful Content. However, the phrase "illegal aliens" has been used in both federal law and by the Supreme Court.
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While the press is ginning up fears, ICE really won’t be doing much differently than it did under not only the first Trump administration, but Obama as well.
Joe Biden’s limited immigration enforcement regime was the outlier.
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NEW REPORT: Are Biden administration officials deliberately engaged in alien smuggling and are they subject to criminal prosecution? @GeorgeFishman2
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President Biden’s migrant crisis had “gone global”, with increasing numbers of aliens showing up illegally at the Southwest border from countries that hadn’t previously attracted a lot of illegal aliens to the United States.
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DHS has quietly published an overdue overstay report showing that more than 850,000 foreign visitors overstayed their authorized stay in FY2022, which is probably a record high.
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The Senate bill would have done little to improve border security or reduce illegal immigration into the United States. There’s good reason to believe, even, that it would have increased illegal immigration across the southern border.
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Beating and stabbing another person to death, let alone stabbing a toddler in a tub, is rarely the first crime anyone commits.
Most criminals are “upward offenders”
If all of the reported facts are correct, Cuz Choc fits that bill.
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Border Patrol releases migrants from the FBI’s Terrorist Watchlist because border agents “were busy processing an increased flow of migrants”. cis.org/Bensman/Government-R…
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All crimes committed by illegal aliens represent an unnecessary and preventable burden on American society and its criminal justice system.
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Fed Chairman Jerome Powell made a startling admission: The economy has cooled as unemployment has risen, and “one of the things that's allowed the unemployment rate to rise” has been “quite an influx across the borders”.
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The Immigration Act of 1924 ushered in a four-decade-long Great Pause in mass immigration. This allowed the United States to assimilate the 20-plus million immigrants who arrived during the “Great Wave” that had begun in the 1880s.
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The number of alien respondents who failed to appear for removal proceedings is soaring — on track to exceed 170,000 in FY 2024, which would best last year’s record of nearly 160,000.
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“Injustice Porn” – exploitation propaganda that the mass migration advocacy industry will employ to undermine the current broad political support for Trump’s coming national interior deportation initiative.
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Which Sanctuary Jurisdictions Have Released the Most Criminals?
Newly obtained ICE records reveal the sanctuary jurisdictions that have most frequently failed to allow ICE to take custody of deportable aliens who were jailed in those locations.
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VIDEO: A new Center for Immigration Studies report highlights Texas Governor Abbott’s “Operation Hold the Line”.
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In a substantial win for American citizens harmed by the Biden-Harris admin’s open-borders policies, a federal judge for the first time held DHS accountable for violating NEPA when taking immigration actions.
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It will take years – and probably hundreds of billions of dollars in federal, state, and local spending – for schools to accommodate the 500,000 to 1 million migrant children who have entered the United States since the start of FY 2022.
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The Biden/Mayorkas PIP scheme represents an extravagant wedding of marriage fraud and indifference to such fraud by Secretary Mayorkas’ DHS.
Of course, the American public will be paying for the reception.
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By refusing repeated chances to simply rule out a terrorism motive for a May 3 truck-breaching attack on the Quantico base, the Biden admin has essentially confirmed it.
And since that precedent is now established, more are likely on the way.
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The cost to transport unaccompanied alien minors:
$404 million for 12 months.
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Illegal immigration is expensive.
DHS has announced it will hand out an additional $380m to localities through its Shelters and Services Program.
This is in addition to the $259.13m in SSP grants DHS gave out just four months prior in April 2024.
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CIS analyst @BensmanTodd is traveling on field research to the Darien Gap immigration passageway through which more than 1.5 million foreign nationals have reached the U.S. southern border over the past three-plus years.
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Panama’s plans to permanently return traffic levels through the Darien Gap to pre-Biden levels depend greatly on U.S. funding for sufficient numbers of expulsion flights to have deterrent effect.
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A statewide grand jury that was empaneled in central Florida issued three more reports from its 18-month-long investigation of the causes and consequences of recent illegal immigration to Florida.
Here's a summary of the recommendations:
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More cases of foreign student fraud have come to light at Lehigh University, raising serious questions about the extent to which American schools in general have the capacity to stop criminal foreigners from gaining admission to the United States.
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New analysis from the Center for Immigration Studies provides a visual representation of immigration’s (legal and illegal together) impact on public schools at the local level.
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A border wall would likely pay for itself.
If a wall stopped between 160,000 and 200,000 illegal crossers — 9% to 12% of those expected to successfully cross in the next decade — the fiscal savings would equal the $12 to $15 billion cost of the wall.
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Senate negotiators have finally released the text of a “deal” they’ve been hashing out for two months to trade $61 billion in foreign aid to Ukraine for border “reforms”. There’s some good in that bill and a lot of bad.
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New Data: There were nearly 1.6 million foreign students in the US in 2024.
- 422,335 Indian students
- 329,541 Chinese students
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"DHS’s 'sweeping new actions' are... a blueprint for success if their goal is to empty Latin America of its peoples and bring them here."
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New report reveals federal law enforcement funding for states & localities that undermine immigration law and shield criminals from ICE.
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The Border Patrol identifying false family units is documented:
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DHS Office of Inspector General Report: Alien children are now at higher risk for trafficking, exploitation, or forced labor. cis.org/Arthur/DHS-Watchdog-… @CIS_orgOffice
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UN Budgets Millions for U.S.-Bound Migrants in 2024
Public docs show cash handouts to help feed, transport, and house people headed for the U.S. border
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"Our entire IT department was ordered to train our replacements, who were Tata India employees on H-1B/L-1B visas...[We] were given a small severance and a pink slip. Our extremely diverse department was replaced with an all-young, male foreign workforce"
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Analysis of the specific Trump Administration Executive Orders and other actions: cis.org/Press-Release/Trump-…
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2/ From Arizona v. United States (2012): "There is no reason Arizona cannot make it a state crime for a removable alien (or any illegal alien, for that matter) to remain present in Arizona."
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The # of certified H-2B workers has risen every yr since 2013 by avg of 12.4% yr-to-yr & paid less than ntl average in 21 of 25 of top jobs certified for H-2B."Fishers and Related Fishing Workers" wages=31.9% less than ntl average. Cheap labor undercuts American workers' wages.
Why aren’t wages rising more quickly?
@RyanGirdusky nails it: “simply because we still have massive H-2B visa, massive H-1B visa, and over 1 million legal immigrants per year.”
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We have updated our map of sanctuary jurisdictions based on data from ICE.
Virginia, North Dakota, Nebraska, New York, and Minnesota have seen the most significant increases in sanctuary policies.
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On February 15, Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) introduced H.R. 7372, the “Defending Borders, Defending Democracies Act” (DBDA) as an alternative to a poorly understood, deeply flawed, and yet widely lauded Senate border bill.
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5/ Code of Federal Regulations: "Illegal alien means any person who is not lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the United States or who has not been authorized by the Attorney General to accept employment in the United States."
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"Worksite enforcement isn't just about employing illegal aliens. It's tax fraud. It's identity theft. Often, aliens are using the social security numbers of US citizens. There's a criminal aspect that people don't understand" -Tom Homan
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3/ Title 8 of the United States Code, Section 1365: "The Attorney General shall reimburse a State for the costs incurred by the State for the imprisonment of any illegal alien or Cuban national who is convicted of a felony by such State"
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4/ US District Court Judge Andrew Hanen, 2015: "There is a certain segment of the population that finds the phrase ‘illegal alien’ offensive. The court uses this term because it is the term used by the Supreme Court in its latest pronouncement pertaining to this area of the law."
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An 18-state coalition has filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota to block the Biden administration’s efforts to funnel illegal migrants through the ports of entry.
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All employment growth has gone to the foreign-born. 183,000 fewer U.S.-born Americans are working than in 2019, before Covid. Yet, the number of immigrants (legal and illegal) working is up 2.9 million over 2019.
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"After immigration agents arrested 680 workers in a workplace sting at seven Mississippi factories, job seekers flocked to an employment fair in hopes of filling some of those now-empty positions...Most were black, and spoke with accents from the South."
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The numerical increase of 8.3 million foreign-born in the last four years is larger than in any four-year period in American history.
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The H-1B nonimmigrant visa program is meant to help employers fill bona fide gaps in the domestic labor market - not replace U.S. workers.
Asking employers to pay higher fees to bring on H-1B workers is one way to ensure that a particular worker is valuable to the U.S. economy and actually needed by a particular business, rather than used as a cost-saving hire at American workers' expense.
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Foreign-born population declined an unprecedented 2.2 million from January to July – the largest six-month decline ever within the same year. cis.org/Report/Overall-Forei… via @CIS_org
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A CIS examination of one subset of 200-plus NGOs helping a mammoth UN-led immigration assistance project reveals pass-through taxpayer funding of the worst mass migration in U.S. history
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New data shows that since January 2020, 88% of all employment growth has gone to immigrants (legal and illegal).
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Reforming H-1B is a futile exercise.
It needs to be ended.
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An 18-year-old DACA student named Sergio Salazar was at his bond hearing for threatening to make bombs while protesting ICE.
His lawyers were going to ask for a $1,500 bail so he could go free.
That is, until ICE lawyers produced 21 pages of his tweets.
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President Biden, you have the green light to prevent a new Haitian migration crisis.
Should you want to.
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With Ihlan Omar back in the news, recall that last year we wrote about her immigration/marriage fraud case.
Omar allegedly married her own brother while being married to someone else, presumably to get her brother a green card.
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Internal enforcement should never be a bargaining chip, but a staple of legitimate immigration enforcement.
At the request of Democrats, I have delayed the Illegal Immigration Removal Process (Deportation) for two weeks to see if the Democrats and Republicans can get together and work out a solution to the Asylum and Loophole problems at the Southern Border. If not, Deportations start!
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There was no application fee to apply for DACA status.
So who picked up the $317 million tab? Legal immigrants.
To add insult to injury, these legal immigrants also had to wait longer for their applications, since the DACA recipients jumped them in line.
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The SPLC has falsely claimed that the Center for Immigration Studies is a hate group.
Today, we filed a civil lawsuit under the RICO Act against Richard Cohen, the SPLC's president, seeking damages and an injunction from the SPLC's racketeering activity.
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A CIS FOIA lawsuit reveals that CBP has approved secretive flights that last year alone ferried over 320,000 inadmissible aliens from foreign airports into some 43 American ones over the past year, but CBP will not reveal the names of these airports.
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"This is a case that was covered for an entire month as people were looking for this woman. As soon as the narrative changed, the networks dropped the story because it didn't fit their narrative" -Art Arthur
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One cannot discuss the Los Angeles County teacher strikes without discussing immigration:
- 70% of the students in poverty are from immigrant households
- 58% of all students in the county are from immigrant households
- Immigrants require ESL classes
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BREAKING STORY: A little-known part of the Biden administration's CBP One parole program permits inadmissible aliens to make an appointment to fly directly to airports in the interior of the United States, bypassing the border altogether.
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President Biden issued an order last week to grant deferred enforced departure (DED) to certain Palestinian nationals who are currently in the US.
Aliens who have been granted DED are protected from removal and may receive work authorization.
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Bernie says migrants are coming to the United States because they are "fleeing violence."
In fact, 91% of Guatemalans say they're coming to the US for economic reasons: cis.org/Luna/911-Guatemalans…
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A border wall won't block everyone out, but it will reduce illegal migrant flows by tens of thousands, making the job of Border Patrol agents much easier.
And unlike advanced technology, it doesn't require thousands of humans to operate.
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The fourth quarter of 2023 shows 2.7 million more people working in the United States — 2.9 million more immigrants (legal and illegal) and 183,000 fewer U.S.-born Americans.
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As @JessicaV_CIS notes, there is a serious amnesty/sanctuary provision snuck into the spending bill.
Section 224(a) would make it so ICE cannot detain or remove anyone who has effectively any kind of relationship (even just as a "potential sponsor") with any unaccompanied minor:
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In fact, President Trump said that "legitimate asylum seekers" are disadvantaged by frivolous claims.
The president is correct. Out of every 100 migrants who make credible fear claims, only 13 are ultimately granted asylum. 52 don't even file for asylum: cis.org/Arthur/One-Chart-Add…
Trump in Rose Garden speech paints asylum seekers with broad brush accusing them of misleading immigration authorities at border: “These are frivolous claims.”
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PRESS RELEASE: Yesterday Twitter rejected four Center for Immigration Studies tweets for use in the Center's Twitter Ads campaign, alleging hateful content.
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Federal attorneys are prosecuting as many single adult illegal aliens as possible, using laws that progressively penalize repeat illegal entries.
Depending on how many times an alien recommits, can bring long, hefty prison terms of up to 20-years.
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The spending bill would give local governments in the Rio Grande (all of which are *heavily* Democratic) the ability to veto the fence. If those blue municipalities don't agree with DHS, the fence can't get built.
Thus, even that $1.4B is almost moot.
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Mexico is ready to welcome back Dreamers.
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Today the White House announced its public charge rule, which would encourage immigrants seeking green cards to be economically self-sufficient.
Currently, 63% of non-citizen households access welfare, compared to 35% for native-born headed households.
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More than 2k people have arrived in Tijuana this week from the Migrant Caravan. Another 7k are expected, according to Mexican authorities.
This is in addition to the roughly 3k migrants who were already in Tijuana seeking entry into the United States.
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DHS announced this week that it will be rescinding the Trump administration’s terminations of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for El Salvador, Honduras, Nepal, and Nicaragua.
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Illegal immigrant population in decline?
Our preliminary estimate is that there are 14.8m illegal immigrants in the country in May 2025, one million fewer than we estimated in January of this year.
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On average, each Middle Eastern refugee resettled in the United States costs an estimated $64,370 in the first five years, or $257,481 per household.
For the cost of each refugee resettled here, the US could take care of 12 refugees abroad.
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"Right now, newly arrived legal immigrants who earn little or nothing are eligible for fully subsidized Obamacare plans with taxpayers paying the entire bill, even for copays and deductibles. And 6.8 million children of immigrants are enrolled in Medicaid"
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Trump to cut refugees to 18,000, give localities veto over resettlement - go.shr.lc/2lroxTv
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"This supposedly 'high-skilled' immigrant group--with a college or advanced degree--are scoring the same on standardized literacy tests as native-born Americans with just a high-school diploma" - Jason Richwine
View the full panel with @michellemalkin:
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Another emergency declaration could:
- Enable DHS to create tent facilities/end catch-and-release
- Reduce border lanes
- Prioritize removal of UACs/families under final removal orders
This would make it clear that the US is serious about enforcement.
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Nearly 1.4 million aliens with no right to enter the United States will be living here indefinitely anyway, thanks to the Biden administration’s ad hoc illegal immigration system.
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“It’s all a lie. There's no [STEM] shortage. I watched my friends and colleagues get pushed out of this industry. We're always scared."
Hear from the Americans who have been replaced by Big Tech’s reliance on cheap H-1B, L-1B and OPT guestworkers:
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The very purpose of the H-1B visa is to replace American workers with cheap, foreign labor.
No other description of H-1B fits what Congress has actually enacted.
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One of our researchers, during an annual border tour, once asked a Guatemalan woman near the Mexico-US border why she was crossing.
"I saw people doing it on CNN," she told him.
Potential migrants (and smugglers) track US domestic politics closely, and react accordingly.
"I will say this: If they feel there will be separation, they don't come," President Trump said of migrant families, suggesting the policy of separating children from their parents would dissuade asylum seekers from crossing the border illegally. nbcnews.to/2yGllps
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This year, a federal judge named Indira Talwani publicly attacked ICE.
Now, that same judge has been assigned to hear a case in which *prosecutors* in Massachusetts are suing ICE to block courthouse arrests
How could Talwani possibly be impartial here?
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NEW: The foreign-born population has hit RECORD highs in March 2024 of 51.6m and 15.6% of the total U.S. population.
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ICYMI: As governor, Chris Christie did nothing to fight sanctuary jurisdictions in his state.
Recently, an illegal alien (and former DACA recipient) released from a NJ county jail killed three people.
Now, @realDonaldTrump is considering Christie for AG.
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Five years ago, we published analysis showing that high levels of immigration hurts Republicans in elections, regardless of what position the party takes on illegal immigration: cis.org/Immigrations-Impact-…
At least the mass migration advocates are being honest about it now, too.
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"Each year approximately 200,000 children are born in the U.S. to foreign tourists, students, and temporary guest workers, according to CIS...Roughly the same number are born to illegal immigrants. The government grants U.S. citizenship to all of them."
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Advocates of unskilled immigration argue that there are many jobs that Americans will not do. In reality, a majority of workers in almost every occupation identified by the Census Bureau are U.S.-born--even maids, meatpackers, and construction workers.
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An illegal alien in a NJ county jail was released despite an ICE detainer thanks to sanctuary policies.
He went on to commit a triple homicide.
Now Christie is being considered for AG, even though as NJ governor he made no effort to fight these policies.
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Congress has made it legal to pay H-1B workers low wages.
The statute says H-1Bs may not be admitted unless the employer *says* they will be paid the prevailing wage.
The wages requirement relies on a “trust me” system.
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There are 50 million+ working-age Americans out of the labor force. Many fields have seen stagnant wages for years.
If corporations are telling @realDonaldTrump that they “need workers”, they’re lying. Plenty of Americans are ready to work. They just don’t want to pay them.
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After repeated denials, the California DMV is now admitting it registered at least 1,500 ineligible drivers' license recipients to vote, including aliens.
Aliens, whether here legally or illegally, cannot vote. That is a privilege reserved for citizens.
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The new #H1B rule is:
- reining in Indian outsourcing companies
- cutting down the time period for initial visas for these employers from the current three years to one year
- changing how the prevailing wage is calculated
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The 2.23 million decline in the foreign born population is a huge and statistically significant decline, indicating something has fundamentally changed.
Foreign-born population declined an unprecedented 2.2 million from January to July – the largest six-month decline ever within the same year. cis.org/Report/Overall-Forei… via @CIS_org
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