Combined Federal Campaign
The 2025 Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) began on September 1 and runs to January 15. All federal employees, military members, postal personnel, federal retirees, and federal contractors can support the work of the Center. Our CFC number is 10298.
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A Conversation with U.S. Border Patrol Chief Michael Banks
CIS Immigration Newsmaker Series, September 19, 2025
Summary: Chief Banks sat down with the Center’s Executive Director Mark Krikorian for an in-depth discussion of the current state of border security; including apprehension numbers, maritime illegal immigration, northern border challenges, gotaways, recruitment efforts, the role of the National Guard, and more. The candid and important conversation was broadcast by C-SPAN.
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Parsing Immigration Policy
Immigration Newsmaker Podcast: A Conversation with USCIS Director Joseph Edlow
Host: Mark Krikorian
Guest: Joseph Edlow, Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
Episode 222
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Report
Trump Derailed Biden’s Refugee Resettlement Expansion
A look at what might have been
By Nayla Rush, September 18, 2025
Excerpt: The Biden-Harris administration’s proclaimed humanitarian approach to displaced populations and efforts to “strengthen” refugee resettlement and expand “safe, orderly, and lawful pathways to the United States” were derailed by President Trump as soon as he took office. The following provides an in-depth review of the Biden-Harris administration’s refugee report, along with an overview of several collaborative initiatives established to assist refugees and other newcomers.
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Commentary
Published in the New York Post:
A 1996 law prevented migrants from getting welfare — it’s been ignored for 30 years
By George Fishman, September 21, 2025
Excerpt: The Year of Welfare Reform’s promise to American taxpayers needs to be fulfilled. I would urge President Trump to consider undoing the Clinton administration’s sabotage of welfare reform, which was an “interpretation” not a law.
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Featured Posts
An Overview of the Criminal Grounds of Inadmissibility and Deportability
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: The INA contains separate grounds of inadmissibility and deportability for aliens who have committed criminal offenses, the former applying to aliens who have not been admitted to the United States and the latter applying to those who have been lawfully admitted but are removable on criminal grounds. Here’s a (rather in-depth) overview.
President Trump’s H-1B 100 Grand Entry Bar
By George Fishman
Excerpt: If employers will only have to pay a one-time fee per H-1B worker, the fee would have to be set at a level higher than $100,000 in order to equalize the wages of H-1B computer workers with the median national wage for software developers. And the fee would have to be set at a level many multiples of $100,000 in order to equalize the wages of H-1B computer workers with those of relatively highly-paid software developers. These higher fees would not be unreasonable amounts for employers to pay for those H-1B workers who truly are “the best and the brightest”.
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A Guide to the Detention and Removal Process — and Due Process
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: Many questions have been raised of late about the process under which aliens are detained in and removed from the United States. It’s not just one process, though — it’s several, and the rules depend on where the alien is encountered, how the alien was encountered, and whether and how the alien has been admitted. Here’s a guide.
More on Trump’s $100,000 H-1B Proclamation
By Elizabeth Jacobs
Excerpt: Adding a $100,000 fee to H-1B petitions demonstrates a clear policy objective to protect the domestic workforce against unfair labor competition in high-skill occupations. Since its creation, the program has been sold to the Americans as a legal mechanism to fill high-skill positions when there are not sufficient willing and able U.S. workers. Instead, loopholes in H-1B laws and regulations have allowed corporations to use the H-1B program as a labor cost-savings program, directly undermining domestic labor interests.
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