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Share Tweet Forward Report Sen. Kamala Harris’s Attempted Sabotage of Immigration Law Enforcement By George Fishman, September 6, 2024 Excerpt: The legislation that Kamala Harris championed during her four years in the U.S. Senate reveals a disturbingly extreme immigration agenda. Sen. Harris introduced or co-sponsored a wide array of bills designed to negatively impact the ability of DHS to enforce our nation’s immigration laws. While the legislation was not enacted into law, should it reflect what her immigration policies would be like as president, her administration would out-extreme even that of President Biden and Alejandro Mayorkas, Biden’s impeached secretary of Homeland Security. Podcast New Wage Data Shows No Skilled Worker Shortage Host: Mark Krikorian Guests:  Steven Camarota, Director of Research, CIS Jason Richwine, Resident Scholar, CIS Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 170 Commentary PRM: The Obscure State Department Bureau That Fosters Global Illegal Migration By Phillip Linderman The American Conservative, September 3, 2024 Excerpt: Even those who closely follow immigration and border issues rarely understand the role the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) plays in accommodating and promoting the worldwide movement of illegal migrants. Featured Posts Debate Questions for the Candidates By CIS  Excerpt: Prior to the first debate, between former President Trump and President Biden, the Center's subject matter experts offered several questions that should be asked. Below are questions for Tuesday’s debate, some of them the same as last time, some new, given the change in the lineup. Since Vice President Harris’s stated views on immigration are in flux, while former President Trump’s are not, many of these questions are naturally directed to her. Illegal Immigration Is Expensive By Elizabeth Jacobs Excerpt: The latest handout of hundreds of millions to communities impacted by Biden-Harris border and immigration policies underscores the high cost of illegal immigration. The Administration, the Senate Border Bill, and a Brewing Constitutional Imbalance By Andrew R. Arthur Excerpt: Ukraine funding gave opponents of the administration’s border policies a chance to restore balance to an issue that, constitutionally, Congress is supposed to call all the shots on. Not only was that opportunity lost, but the resulting product would have codified migrant releases.  Report: Mexico Busing ‘CBP One’ Migrants from Guatemalan Border to U.S. Ports of Entry By Andrew R. Arthur Excerpt: The Mexican government is giving free bus rides to inadmissible migrants from all over the world to the U.S. ports, almost definitely at the Biden-Harris administration’s behest. So the U.S. Southwest border now starts on the north side of the Mexico-Guatemalan one. Donate Copyright © 2024 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.