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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Start a company, sponsor yourself for an H-1B visa, and sponsor friends and family for H-1B visas. The H-1B data obtained by Bloomberg suggests that this is happening on a massive scale. H-1B ...

In the 2024/25 academic year, students from India (363,019) and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) (265,919) made up 53 percent (India, 31 percent; PRC, 23 percent) of all foreign students ...

President Trump's Border Czar Tom Homan is proposing a major expansion of I-9 employment verification inspections that would dramatically increase worksite enforcement while freeing federal agents to ...

According to the New York Times, Vang was born in a Thai refugee camp in 1983 and entered the United States as a refugee over a decade later (when he would have been about 11), eventually settling ...

At issue, as the name of the rule suggests, is “administrative closure”, which the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) has described as “a procedural tool created for the convenience of the Immigration ...

Whether in Congressional hearings or in media “fact checks”, arguments against local cooperation with ICE are often accompanied by the claim that illegal immigrants have a lower crime rate compared to ...

At a recent Immigration Newsmaker hosted by the Center for Immigration Studies, Andrew Veprek, Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM), described a ...

Recent headlines about Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration detention center have centered on funding disputes, reimbursement rules, environmental reviews, and a contested $608 million price tag ...

The U visa program was created by Congress in 2000 to help law enforcement agencies detect, investigate, and prosecute crimes by offering legal status to unlawfully present victims of serious crimes ...