Parsing Immigration Policy Podcast
Diplomatic Efforts to Strengthen Border Security
Host: Jessica M. Vaughan, Director of Policy Studies, CIS
Guest: Phillip Linderman, retired State Department senior Foreign Service Officer, and CIS board member
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Commentary
Citizenship Without Consent
By Mark Krikorian
The American Mind, February 12, 2025
Excerpt: Determining citizenship based on a birth certificate alone simplifies things immensely. Unfortunately, we no longer live in a world where that’s sustainable. But the main goal that ameliorates the challenge is reduced immigration.
Immigration Cannot Solve the Fertility Crisis
By Jason Richwine
The American Mind, February 11, 2025
Excerpt: With the federal government having long treated birthright citizenship as a requirement of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment, President Trump’s executive order denying it to children of noncitizen, non-permanent resident mothers faces an uphill court battle. Still, opponents of birthright citizenship can hope that the result will elucidate Section 1’s much-debated "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" phrase and clarify whether an amendment is necessary to reinterpret it.
Widespread Support for Trump’s Deportation Plan
By Andrew R. Arthur
Real Clear Politics, February 15, 2025
Excerpt: The topline result from the latest CBS News poll shows that Donald Trump currently enjoys a relatively high approval rating, with 53 percent of respondents pleased with the job he has been doing in his first few weeks as president, compared to 47 percent who aren’t as happy.
El Salvador, Guatemala Deals Key to Trump Deportation Promises
By Andrew R. Arthur
Epoch Times, February 8, 2025
Excerpt: U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has had a very productive trip abroad, reaching agreements with both El Salvador and Guatemala to serve as “safe third countries” for migrants who have been deported from the United States. Those pacts are key to President Donald Trump’s “mass deportation” plans because many countries won’t live up to their obligations to take their deported nationals back.
How FEMA Spending on Migrants Exploded Under Biden
By Andrew R. Arthur
New York Post, February 12, 2025
Excerpt: Elon Musk is targeting what he says is out-of-control spending by the Federal Emergency Management Agency on migrants. He has plenty of places to start. Federal spending on migrants skyrocketed under President Joe Biden, often in obscure ways.
Riots and hijackings — why ICE cuffs and shackles some deportees
By Todd Bensman
New York Post, February 17, 2035
Excerpt: The best way to understand the case for cuffing and shackling deportees is by retelling a true story not far from the minds of career DHS officials: when Biden used air deportations to liquidate a camp of 15,000 Haitians in Del Rio, Texas in September 2021.
Will Mexico Face a Hot Shooting War with the Cartels?
By Todd Bensman
Daily Wire, February 10, 2025
Excerpt: The chosen political slogan of Mexico’s last and current president, “Abrazos, no balazos” (“Hugs, not Bullets”), is often embraced to describe official government policy toward the country’s ultra-violent drug-trafficking cartels. The beauty of this slogan is that it requires no explanation.
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Report
New United States Population Projections
The impact of immigration on future U.S. population size
By Philip Cafaro
Summary: Immigration will be the key factor determining whether populations across the developed world stabilize or continue to increase over the coming century. New policy-based population projections illustrate this for the United States. Expansive immigration policies could increase the U.S. population by hundreds of millions by 2100, while more restrictive policies could stabilize America’s population or even lead to population reduction.
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Featured Posts
A Timeline of FEMA Funding for Migrants
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: The public is becoming better informed about how a Reagan-era support program for homeless vets now provides housing for migrants in upscale accommodations. Whether they approve or not remains to be seen.
What’s Going on with the DACA Litigation?
By Elizabeth Jacobs
Excerpt: This latest ruling matters because, while it is unlikely that a Trump Department of Justice will continue to defend the DACA program, a final disposition on this case could either green light or limit the scope administrative amnesties going forward.
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Bosnian War Criminal Who Twice Slipped National Security Vetting Added to CIS Database
By Todd Bensman
Excerpt: A Bosnian war criminal who managed to gain a green card and U.S. citizenship is the latest addition to the Center for Immigration Studies National Security Vetting Failures Database. The entry brings the total number of failure cases analyzed to 51.
AG Pam Bondi Sues New York Over ‘Green Light Law’ for Illegal Aliens
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: The Justice Department lawsuit describes the New York law as a “frontal assault on the federal immigration laws, and the federal authorities that administer them”, designed to “directly impair” immigration enforcement — which almost definitely was the law’s intent.
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Recently, four FEMA employees were reportedly sacked over payments to reimburse New York City for costs associated with migrant housing. Andrew R. Arthur explains how FEMA got to this point.
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