Based on Census Bureau data, we estimate that 13.5 million illegal immigrants live in the U.S. as of July 2026, down from 15.8 million when President Trump began his second term in January 2025. The ...

On September 10, the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) — the DOJ tribunal that reviews certain immigration court decisions — issued an opinion in Matter of V-S-A-, concluding an immigration judge (IJ ...

Nearly 17,000 aliens filed petitions seeking U visa protections in the first six months of FY 2026, according to the latest statistics released by USCIS. Another 11,000 filed petitions as family ...

The Trump administration’s proposed changes to the residence criteria for the 2030 Census have brought new attention to a question examined by the Center for Immigration Studies two years ago: How ...

The Center for Immigration Studies is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit research organization founded in 1985. It is the nation's only think tank devoted exclusively to research and policy ...

The time has come to acknowledge and comprehend that America is weathering the worst mass border migration event in the nation’s history. Millions of foreign nationals have overrun the southern border ...

Op-ed: Biden’s Insane ‘Asylum-Seekers’ Policy Is What’s Frustrating, Hurting the U.S.

The Center for Immigration Studies is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit research organization founded in 1985. It is the nation's only think tank devoted exclusively to research and policy ...

The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) grant allocations have long been a subject of scrutiny, especially concerning their impact on sanctuary jurisdictions — those localities that deliberately obstruct ...

A new article from Reuters is pushing a curious headline: “Biden is now deporting more people than Trump”. Americans paying attention to the Biden administration’s destruction of immigration ...

Jason Richwine, PhD, is a public policy analyst based in Washington, D.C., and a contributing writer at National Review. Steven A. Camarota is the director of research and Karen Zeigler is a ...

Prior to coming to the Center, I had retired from federal service after finishing my second tour of duty as a staffer on Capitol Hill. The first was on the Judiciary Committee where I was oversight ...