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.

cis.org/Report/Employm… While the numbers have continually rebounded from the lows of '20, there were still 183k fewer U.S.-born working in the 4th quarter of '23 than in the 4th quarter of '19, before Covid. The number of immigrants (legal and illegal) working is up 2.9m over '19.

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
cis.org/Bensman/Biden-… A prime example is the self-described “Jewish American” nonprofit organization @HIASrefugees.

The first infusions of another $5.2m State Dept grant to HIAS this year — explicitly for the endeavor in Latin America — started arriving.

A database shows that some $6.1m of 2024’s commitment will go out as cash cards, vouchers, and in-kind services.

Todd Bensman will testify on the human cost of the border crisis at 2pm EST before the House Homeland Security Committee.
@BensmanTodd
Watch here:
"This is a single ongoing event with a traceable start date, smashing every record on government books for 30 months straight."

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.
cis.org/Report/Mapping… “The findings show that, in many areas, immigration has an enormous effect on schools. The share of students from households headed by an immigrant (legal or illegal) is so large in parts of the country that it raises profound questions about assimilation.”

.@BensmanTodd Reports on Migrants Entering U.S. from Matamoros, Mexico

More video: cis.org/Bensman/Mexica… @BensmanTodd A Venezuelan migrant tells @BensmanTodd that he’s coming for the end of Title 42 and will cross into the U.S. illegally at the first sign that the Americans are letting them in under the new policy plan.

More video: cis.org/Bensman/Mexica…

WATCH NOW: @JessicaV_CIS testifies on the exploitation of unaccompanied alien children before the Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security and Enforcement of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee.
cis.org/Testimony/Bide… "The Biden admin chose to throw gasoline on that dumpster fire by actually expanding opportunities for the illegal smuggling of minors into the country and expanding opportunities for these minors to be trafficked for cheap labor, commercial sex, & more." @JessicaV_CIS

LIVE NOW -- Panel: Gatekeeper Countries
youtube.com/live/W-JneZ2xC… Is the key to stopping the flow of irregular migrants destination countries collaborating with gatekeeper countries?

New report examining the latest DHS Entry/Exit Overstay Report for Fiscal Year 2020, and offering recommendations to address the problem of visa overstays – those foreign visitors who enter legally but fail to leave when they're supposed to.

cis.org/Report/Latest-… DHS counted 684,500 overstays in 2020, up very slightly (about 1 percent) from 2019, when 676,400 overstays were counted, and just below the levels in 2016 and 2017.

Read more: cis.org/Report/Latest-…

The 47 million foreign-born residents (legal and illegal) in the country in April of 2022 is the largest number ever recorded in any U.S. government survey or decennial census.

cis.org/Report/Foreign… The total foreign-born population (legal and illegal) increased by two million in the first 16 months of the Biden administration — January 2021 to April 2022 — twice as fast as the U.S.-born population grew.

cis.org/Report/Foreign…

Director of Research Steven Camarota in the National Review: The Illegal-Immigrant Population Increased Dramatically in Biden’s First Year
nationalreview.com/2022/04/the-il… Our latest research shows that the number of illegal immigrants living in the U.S. actually declined during the pandemic year of 2020, but then it rebounded sharply in 2021 with an increase of over 1 million in the last year.
nationalreview.com/2022/04/the-il…

The House @freedomcaucus will hold a hearing examining Biden's open border policies at @FreedomWorks at 3pm EST. Todd Bensman @BensmanTodd, the Center's senior national security fellow, will be testifying. @freedomcaucus @FreedomWorks @BensmanTodd Watch live now:
cis.org/Testimony/Bide…

CIS takes look at the prior fiscal year’s refugee resettlement admissions. One difference, though, is that this year’s overview will not include the religion of refugees.
cis.org/Report/FY-2021… Data on religion has been removed along with other information on resettled refugees such as gender, age, education, etc.

cis.org/Report/FY-2021…

Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko is using migrants to blackmail the EU.
nationalreview.com/2021/11/weapon… Migrants from the Middle East & Asia are bused to the country’s western border, & given instructions on how to cross into EU countries. "On some occasions, they are even supplied with wire cutters to break through any border fencing they might encounter."
nationalreview.com/2021/11/weapon…

The budget reconciliation package pushed by Democrats creates a new expanded child tax credit (CTC) that would pay illegal immigrants some $10.5 billion next year.
realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/… "All immigrants with children are eligible, regardless of how they got here and whether their children are U.S.-born.”
realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/…

We hosted a panel discussion entitled “Asylum Reform and the Border” last week.

Watch the discussion with @MarkSKrikorian, Andrew Arthur, and @RepMikeJohnson.

cis.org/Video/Panel-As… @MarkSKrikorian @RepMikeJohnson .@RepMikeJohnson discusses his experience with the bussing of illegal aliens into #Shreveport, #Louisiana.

"How many Afghans in need of evacuation are we talking about?"
cis.org/Rush/How-Many-… "Looking at just the two SIV programs for Afghan nationals, there are about 100,000 people, including family members, at issue."
cis.org/Rush/How-Many-…

Tune into WMAL at 5:15 to hear Mark Krikorian speak on immigration, Afghanistan, and the border.
wmal.com Krikorian: "You can't vet people from Afghanistan. Even when we ran the place, our vetting was hit and miss.... The best vetted are the relative handful of people who were working as translators for the military."

The argument is often made that if Americans won't have enough children to balance out our aging population, higher rates of immigration are needed. "It's not a crazy argument; it just happens to be incorrect."
nationalaffairs.com/publications/d… “Demographers have known for a long time that, absent truly gargantuan and ever-increasing rates of immigration, it isn't actually possible for immigrants to undo or dramatically slow the overall aging of society.”

Victims of marriage-related immigration fraud are telling their stories.

In many cases, aliens use the Violence Against Women Act, permitting them to "self-petition" for green card status, when they claim that their US spouse abused them.

cis.org/North/Victims-… Case No. 1: Female American Victim from New Mexico; Male Alien Spouse from China.

EOIR and USCIS rulemaking notice proposes amending regulations on:

- Credible fear claims
- Applications for asylum
- Statutory withholding of removal
- Protection under the Convention Against Torture

To be published in the Fed Register on Monday.

cis.org/Arthur/Propose… The notice runs 161 pages, but here are highlights of eight of the proposed changes:

.@CatoInstitute's illegal counts for healthcare occupations constitute an implausibly high share of post-1980 non-citizens.

cis.org/Camarota/Are-T… @CatoInstitute For example, @CatoInstitute suggests 88% of all post-1980 non-citizen nurse-anesthetists are supposedly illegal, as are 71% of physician assistants.