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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Without much fanfare, the U.S. Census Bureau released what it terms a “data product” bearing the anodyne headline “Noncitizen Voting in the 2020 Election, A Beginning Analysis”. It’s thick as a Chunky ...
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 ...
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” ...
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 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 ...
Generally, when discussing applications that alien “respondents” can file in removal proceedings, they are applications for “relief”, which means some status or benefit the immigration judge can grant ...
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