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 ...
A Department of Justice administrative law judge has issued an opinion that in a very real sense has erected a wall separating American citizens from American jobs. He ruled that an employer can ...
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 ...
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 ...
In my testimony, I will use the definition of birth tourism that Justice Clarence Thomas adopted in his dissenting opinion in Trump v. Barbara et al. He defined birth tourism as “the practice of ...
Since January 2025 when President Trump took office the government’s monthly household survey, officially called the Current Population Survey (CPS), shows an unprecedented 2.9 million decline in the ...
Recently, I examined a series of (predictably recurring but erroneous nonetheless) claims that ICE is somehow failing in its mission by expanding arrests and deportation of aliens without “criminal” ...
On September 1, the Washington Examiner reported that 94 percent of asylum claims considered by the nation’s immigration judges in June were denied, compared to just half in June 2024. The Examiner ...
Like clockwork, major media outlets like CBS News, the New York Times, and The Independent are back, pushing what has become a stock — but tedious — claim that ICE under Trump II has transgressed some ...
Twenty-five years after 9/11, is the United States better prepared to prevent another terrorist attack? The Center for Immigration Studies convened a panel to examine that question, discussing the ...
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is proposing to amend its regulations to add a $103,265 fee to cap-subject H-1B petitions, including petitions eligible for advanced-degree exemption. The fee ...
On August 14, the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) — the DOJ tribunal that reviews immigration decisions — issued an opinion in Matter of A-K-R-, concluding that an immigration judge (IJ) did not ...