Congressional Testimony
Biden’s Border Betrayal: Criminal Aliens in America
Statement of Andrew R. Arthur before the United States Senate Subcommittee on Border Security and Immigration, July 22, 2025
Summary: To address the issues raised by the committee, I have structured my written testimony to first, explain the source of the immigration power in the United States; second, to outline the criminal grounds of removal; third, to describe the laws governing immigration investigations, stops, and arrests; fourth, to delineate the statutes governing detention under the Immigration and Nationality Act; fifth, to explain the standards for due process in the removal process; sixth, to discuss immigration enforcement under the second Trump administration; and seventh, to analyze so-called “sanctuary” policies and their impacts.
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Andrew R. Arthur testifies in-front of the United States Senate Subcommittee on Border Security and Immigration
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Report
The Foreign-Born Population at the State and Regional Level, 1850 to 2025
By Steven A. Camarota and Karen Zeigler, July 23, 2025
Summary: This report uses decennial Census data and government surveys to examine the size of the foreign-born population at the regional and state level since 1850, focusing on the growth since 1980. The increases at the sub-national level in many parts of the country in the last 45 years can only be described as extraordinary.
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Parsing Immigration Policy Podcast
The Role of Immigration Detention
Host: Mark Krikorian
Guest: Andrew R. Arthur, Resident Fellow in Law & Policy at CIS
Episode 214
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Commentary
Published in National Review:
Yes, Illegal Immigration Can Be Controlled
By Steven A. Camarota, July 28, 2025
Excerpt: While the scale of illegal immigration during the Biden administration was completely unprecedented, only a few months into the Trump administration, border encounters are down 93 percent. It turns out that illegal immigration can be greatly curtailed if the government is committed to actually enforcing the law.
Published in the Washington Examiner:
To Fix America’s Visa Crisis, Shrink the System and Restore Integrity
By Jack Docherty, July 24, 2025
Excerpt: When migrants enter the country, it’s all about the quantity of decisions — admitting more people, faster — rather than the quality. Many newcomers can legally remain, sometimes permanently. Yet millions are expected to leave once their visas expire or their claims are denied.
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Featured Posts
Poll Underscores Voters’ Divided Opinions Over Immigration Enforcement
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: The key takeaways from the latest Harvard/Harris poll are that American voters favor secure borders and want to see criminal illegal aliens off the streets and out of the country. They also roundly oppose sanctuary policies — though the electorate is split over whether politicos who impede immigration enforcement should end up in the hoosgow.
The ‘Dignity Act’
By George Fishman
Excerpt: I wasn’t going to dignify the “Dignity for Immigrants while Guarding our Nation to Ignite and Deliver the American Dream Act of 2025” (“DIGNIDAD (Dignity) Act of 2025”) with an appraisal. But here goes.
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Unmasking as Performance Art
By Dan Cadman
Excerpt: In three sanctuary states, bills have been introduced to forbid ICE agents from wearing masks as they go about their increasingly dangerous work. But state lawmakers have no more authority to dictate whether federal officers are masked than they have to dictate what kind of firearms they carry or vehicles they drive. It's just for show.
Why Doesn’t DHS Reopen and Terminate Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s Withholding Order?
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: The only way the facts in this case — the quick removal, the detention in CECOT — make any sense is if El Salvador had reason to believe Abrego had criminal ties that impacted security in El Salvador.
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