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Jim Simpson | The Daily Caller Today’s Refugee Resettlement program is a study in government-sponsored fraud. The nine primary resettlement contractors, called “Voluntary Agencies” or VOLAGs, work with 350 subcontractors called “affiliates,” and are paid per head to resettle refugees. This includes $2,025 for each refugee from the State Department’sReception and Placement program, and a […]
Religious leaders face a dilemma when it comes to illegal aliens and the Ten Commandments. Churches have traditionally exhorted their American citizen members not to steal or to covet that which belongs to their neighbor. However, if religious leaders were to teach and hold their illegal alien members to the same standard that they set […]
Matthew Vadum | Capital Research Center Only American citizens should choose American leaders The report is available here: Alien Invasion in Virginia (this link opens to an 11 MB, 143-page PDF) There are at least 1,046 non-citizens on the voter rolls in eight Virginia counties, according to a new report from the Virginia Voters Alliance and the Public Interest […]
Evidence from the American Time-Use Survey By Jason Richwine September 2016 It is well known that lower-skilled men in their prime working years — ages 25 to 54 — have left the labor force in increasing numbers over the past several decades. Experts have been reluctant to acknowledge, however, that the work problem has afflicted […]
Panel Summary The Center for Immigration Studies hosted a panel discussion focusing on low-skill Americans dropping out of the labor force, and the role mass immigration may play in the trend. Reports and Panel Media: Report: Immigrants Replace Low-Skill Natives in the Workforce Panel Announcement: Immigration and Less-Educated American Workers Panel Video: Immigration and Less-Educated […]
From the Federation for American Immigration Reform Voters Oppose Obama’s New Middle East Refugee Plan, Cite National Security Risk Congressional Hearing Highlights Administration’s Low Priority for Enforcement Obama Administration Skips Hearing on Refugee Resettlement Plan Texas Threatens to Withdraw from Refugee Resettlement Program New Report Calls for Reduced Immigration to Help Nation Achieve Sustainability Voters […]
Marguerite Telford | Center for Immigration Studies The first of three presidential debates will be held on Monday, September 26, moderated by Lester Holt of NBC Nightly News. The topic areas – America’s Direction, Achieving Prosperity, and Securing America – are broad, but one issue area that will surely be covered is immigration. Immigration is […]
State Department spokesman John Kirby has gone on record admitting that ISIS terrorists have attempted to infiltrate refugee camps in Jordan and Turkey and that U.S. vetting processes are imperfect. No surprise there really, other than the belated admission of something that’s patently self-evident, from an administration notoriously loath to speak straightforwardly about the threat […]
Nayla Rush | Center for Immigration Studies President’s Obama’s deep commitment to the refugee cause following the Syrian crisis and its five million refugees is now well established. We predicted in a previous blog the arrival of at least 12,000 Syrian refugees by the end of FY 2016 on September 30 (surpassing the Obama administration’s […]
From the Federation for American Immigration Reform Nearly 900 Immigrants From ‘Special Interest’ Countries Mistakenly Given U.S. Citizenship Administration Announces Plan to Increase Refugee Admissions by Nearly 30 Percent, Will Congress Act? Record Number of Central American ‘Family Units’ Surge Across the Southern Border Mandatory E-Verify for Public Contractors Stands Undefeated in Missouri Nearly […]
Ronald W. Mortensen | Center for Immigration Studies The 2016 presidential campaign has drawn a sharp contrast between Donald Trump, the president of Mexico, and Hillary Clinton when it comes to the fight against human traffickers, the cross-border drug trade, and the smuggling of cash and weapons. On the one hand, Trump and the Mexican […]
NumbersUSA A new report from the Center for Immigration Studies uses data from the 1990 and 2000 Censes and 2010-2014 the American Community Survey (ACS) to show how the adult immigrant population (illegal and legal) has grown from 1990 to 2014 at the county level. The analysis shows that in 232 U.S. counties the number […]