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Share Tweet Forward A Big Border Win CIS Prevails in Challenge to Biden-Harris Immigration Actions First-ever ruling holding DHS accountable for ignoring law requiring environmental analysis By Julie Axelrod Excerpt: In a substantial win for American citizens harmed by the Biden-Harris administration’s open-borders policies, a federal judge for the first time held the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) accountable for violating the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) when taking immigration actions that "unsecured the border almost overnight". The Center is extremely pleased to have vindicated the rights of American citizens under NEPA. Podcast Open Borders and the Rise of Transnational Crime Host: Jon Feere, Director of Investigations, CIS Guest: John Fabbricatore, retired U.S. Customs and Border Protection Field Office Director Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 174 Commentary How to Break the Sanctuary States By Phillip Linderman The American Conservative, October 4, 2024 Excerpt: For almost four years, we have watched—absolutely appalled—as the outlaw Biden-Harris-Mayorkas team has ignored and trampled over the immigration laws and procedures that protect our country. The next Trump administration, invoking Old Hickory, will need to be creative, determined, and smart in the battle to win our country back. The good news is that Trump will have the legal tools to act and succeed. Biden-Harris have done everything possible to protect migrant criminals from deportation By Mark Krikorian New York Post, September 30, 2024 Excerpt: When the Biden-Harris administration took office, they pledged to focus immigration enforcement on criminal aliens, rather than on “ordinary” illegal immigrants. The result? More criminal migrants than ever before! Blog Posts Reducing the Size of the Illegal Population Would Not Impose ‘Devastating Costs’ By Jason Richwine Excerpt: According to the American Immigration Council (AIC), removing even 1 million illegal immigrants would cost $88 billion per year. Frankly, with a federal budget topping $6 trillion, $88 billion does not sound like a prohibitive sum. Nevertheless, removing illegal aliens is not nearly as costly the AIC imagines. In fact, it would save taxpayers money on public services that illegal immigrants consume. Meanwhile at the Northern Border, a Jihadist Attack in New York Is Thwarted By Todd Bensman Excerpt: An alarming new terrorism prosecution in New York State now demands that American attention and diplomatic pressure be turned on Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s unprecedented mass legal immigration policies and the resulting spike in illegal crossings southward across the U.S. border. Nantucket ICE Arrests Show Why ‘Got-Away’ Migrants Keep Border Patrol Chief Up at Night By Andrew R. Arthur Excerpt: Whether the five aliens arrested by ICE in Nantucket offended abroad and came here illegally to prey upon the innocent is unknown and likely unknowable. But what is clear — assuming the five are guilty of the crimes alleged — is that if the immigration laws were enforced, there’d be a lot fewer innocents subjected to predation. Todd Bensman investigates the human smuggling routes from Colombia to Panama's Darien Gap 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.