Center for Immigration Studies

10/19/2026

H-1B workers from some countries are indeed paid more than comparable Americans, but that isn't the case for most countries, including the main sources of H-1B workers, India and China.

Read more: https://cis.org/Miano/Congress-Fully-Aware-Problems-H1B-program-Doesnt-Want-Offend-Big-Tech

10/16/2026

U.S. citizenship is valuable - and if you want to claim it, you must play by Congress’s rules.

Did Ilhan Omar?

The recent news about Rep. Ilhan Omar has focused attention on how an erstwhile alien minor with a green card would have automatically derived citizenship based on the naturalization of a parent or parents. Curiously enough, it’s a subject I have a lot of experience in.

10/16/2026

DHS should publish ALL of ICE’s arrest and removal figures and let Americans know how many dangerous aliens immigration officers have arrested, and in particular how many it took directly from some other law enforcement agency’s custody.

The only reason criminals end up in state or local custody is because authorities there concluded they were too dangerous to allow back on the streets. So if sanctuaries concluded at some point that their criminal aliens posed too big a risk to roam free, why should they now be allowed to remain in....

10/15/2026

Podcast Episode 276: Immigration’s Effects on Black American Economic Opportunity w/ Mark Krikorian and NumbersUSA's Roy Beck.

How has immigration policy affected Black workers over the past 200 years?

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10/14/2026

The question isn’t why the Board of Immigration Appeals is now telling IJs to cut short asylum claims filed by nationals of countries with “extensive human rights protections” and “fair and effective justice systems” — it’s why it’s taken the BIA decades to finally do so.

This isn’t the first BIA opinion in the past two years to address a glaringly obvious abuse of our generous asylum system and streamline the immigration court adjudication process, and likely won’t be the last.

10/13/2026

A federal judge has halted border construction in and around the remote Big Bend National Park, though it’s not clear why.

When millions of dollars and border security is on the line, maybe the court could share its reasoning with the taxpayers.

For now, a federal district court judge has halted border construction in and around the desolate and remote Big Bend National Park, though it’s not clear why. When millions of dollars and border security is on the line, maybe the court could share its reasoning with the taxpayers — and then let...

10/12/2026

The US admitted 16,292 refugees in FY26, about 93 percent of the 17,500 ceiling. All but five were from South Africa (16,287) — in line with the Trump administration’s policy of prioritizing Afrikaners. The other five were from Afghanistan.

With FY 2026 (October 1, 2025 – September 30, 2026) now closed, and September’s admission numbers released on October 6, we can provide a snapshot of the full year’s refugee admissions by month, nationality, and top resettlement states.

10/12/2026

“Abolish ICE”?

No, “cooperate with ICE,” let immigration officers into jails to arrest dangerous criminal aliens, and protect the citizens you have sworn to keep safe.

The shooting of Dominican national Oscar Belgal by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer has triggered what are now predictable responses: street protests before the facts are known.

10/09/2026

OIG reports that CBP sends ICE hundreds of thousands of suspected nonimmigrant overstay leads annually, but thanks to Biden-era enforcement restrictions, those leads resulted in just eight ICE arrests between FY21 and FY24.

Just when you think you know how bad immigration enforcement was under the last administration, the news manages to get worse — and even scarier. Perhaps then-Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas forgot he was in charge of the Department of Homeland Security — or maybe he had some more pressing concern ...

10/09/2026

President Trump’s recent executive order directs federal agencies to take action against employers laying off American workers and replacing them with cheap foreign workers through the H-1B visa program.

Will it stick?

As President Trump stated in his EO, “the policy of the United States” will be for “all relevant agencies [to] implement appropriate measures to protect American workers from abuse of the H-1B program and ensure that the program serves the national interest”. Maybe at long last Congress coul...