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WEEKLY IMMIGRATION REPORT MAY 17, 2016: IMMIGRANT HOUSEHOLDS GET MORE WELFARE BENEFITS THAN CITIZEN HOUSEHOLDS

From the Federation for American Immigration Reform Annual Immigration-Focused Radio Row on Capitol Hill June 22-23 How Many Illegal Aliens will be Deported in Upcoming Enforcement “Raids”? Immigrant Households Receive 41% More Welfare Benefits than American Households Drug Cartels Benefit From America’s Porous Borders Texas Congressman Introduces Bills to Strengthen U.S. Immigration Laws Illinois Committee […]

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Solar Energy for DOD Installations Diverts Funds from Defense Priorities

A view of solar panels installed in 2011 on the roof of Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command Headquarters, San Diego. The rooftop photovoltaic installation supports the Department of Defense’s goal of increasing renewable energy sources to 25 percent of all energy consumed by the year 2025. (U.S. Navy photo by Rick Naystatt/Released)[/caption] By Rachel […]

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Four Reasons It Would Be Dangerous To Ban Russian Rocket Engines

RD-180 test firing, November 4, 1998, at the Marshall Space Flight Center Advanced Engine Test Facility. Image By NASA, ID: MSFC-9808476 – http://mix.msfc.nasa.gov/abstracts.php?p=1996, Public Domain[/caption] Loren B. Thompson, Ph.D and Constance Baroudos, M.A. | Lexington Institute After Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine in 2014, everybody in Washington agreed it was time to stop relying on Russian […]

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Missile Defense: Time For A New Kill Vehicle

Lexington Institute Missile defenses deter countries from launching missile attacks and seek to defeat those who do. But the only existing technology designed to protect the American homeland from incoming intermediate- and long-range ballistic missiles today is the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system, and its success in flight tests has been uneven. [caption id=”attachment_58919″ align=”alignnone” […]

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WEEKLY IMMIGRATION REPORT, MAY 10, 2016: Aliens Cost More than Retirees Get from Social Security

From the Federation for American Immigration Reform UAMs Cost Taxpayers More Than Retirees Receive From Social Security Grassley Questions ICE’s Commitment to Cooperation with Local Police Congressman Gosar Introduces Bill to Stop Obama’s Central American Amnesty Program IRLI Defends American Workers Harmed by Unlawful Guestworker Program 9th Circuit Court Upholds Arizona’s Identity Theft Law Louisiana […]

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The Cost of Welfare Use By Immigrant and Native Households

Center for Immigration Studies Download a PDF of this Backgrounder. Jason Richwine, PhD, is an independent public policy analyst in Washington, D.C., and a contributing writer at National Review. In September 2015, the Center for Immigration Studies published a landmark study of immigration and welfare use, showing that 51 percent of immigrant-headed households used at […]

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WEEKLY IMMIGRATION REPORT, MAY 3, 2016: Nearly 20,000 Criminal Aliens Released by ICE in 2015

From the Federation for American Immigration Reform Nearly 20,000 Criminal Aliens Released by ICE in 2015 Top ICE Official Downplays Releasing Criminal Aliens into American Neighborhoods Military Amnesty Defeated Again in Defense Bill Number of UAMs and Family Units Apprehended Along Southwest Border Increases Sharply Southern Governors Amp Up Immigration Enforcement Efforts Nearly 20,000 Criminal […]

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Welcoming Unaccompanied Alien Children to the United States

Family reunification disguised as refugee resettlement Download a PDF of this Backgrounder Nayla Rush is a senior researcher at the Center for Immigration Studies. Summary The constant flows of unaccompanied minors from Central America illegally crossing the border from Mexico to the United States have been met with rather welcoming measures by this administration. After […]

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Mass Release of DUI-Convicted Illegal Alien Offenders Poses Significant Safety Risk

Spencer Raley | Immigration Reform Blog In preparation for the April 28 hearing before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) released figures on how many criminal illegal aliens the agency caught and then released back into society during FY2015. Out of 119,772 arrests—approximately half the total […]

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U.S. Silent as Thousands of Cuban Migrants Are Delivered to the Border

Kausha Luna | Center for Immigration Studies On Tuesday, State Department officials confirmed that the Obama administration has done nothing to prevent the transfer of thousands of Cuban migrants in Central America to the U.S.-Mexico border. Since Nicaragua closed its southern border and refused to let U.S.-bound islanders pass last year, Costa Rica and Panama […]

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ICE Released 19,723 Criminal Aliens in 2015

  By Jessica Vaughan | Center for Immigration Studies ICE continued to release deportable criminal aliens from its custody at an alarming rate in 2015, according to figures the agency provided to members of Congress this week in advance of a hearing taking place Thursday, April 28. In 2015, ICE freed 19,723 criminal aliens, who […]

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Two Reports Shed Light on the Seamy Side of Resettling; Unaccompanied Alien Minors

audit report was compiled over the course of 12 months, between April 2015 and April 2016. The auditors found that the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), the arm of HHS that is responsible for “resettlement” of unaccompanied minors, is failing in its job of adequate monitoring and oversight of the contract agencies to which it […]