Center for Immigration Studies

This week, the Department of Homeland Security announced a new effort to crack down on asylum fraud — by going after the lawyers who enable it.

Shady immigration attorneys laughed off the law — now they’ll have to pay for their asylum games Our generous asylum laws almost encourage immigration fraud, now the feds are cracking down — by going after the lawyers who help make it happen.

The share of native-born working-age men without a college degree who are not in the labor force fell from 15.7% in January 2025 to 15% in February of this year.

Now with two more months of data available, the share has fallen further to 14.6%.

The Labor Market Effects of Immigration Enforcement Under Trump In order to produce substantial mobility-enhancing effects, immigration reductions have to be long-lasting enough to change the behaviors of employers and employees alike.

Do American citizens have to rely on the foreign press for news about the H-1B program?

New H-1B Documentary – from the UK? The British TV outlet GB News has produced a documentary on the H-1B visa program in the United States, titled “Exposed: The secret Indian networks replacing American workers”.

📊 NEW: Immigrants (both legal and illegal) who arrived during the period of the border surge are significantly less educated and have lower incomes than immigrants who arrived immediately preceding the surge.

Education Level of Newly Arrived Immigrants Has Declined New immigrants (legal and illegal) who arrived in the Biden administration during the border surge are significantly less educated and have lower incomes than newcomers before the surge.

The government can fine aliens who willfully fail or refuse to depart the US pursuant to a final removal order - $998 per day - and can seize tax refunds and place liens on aliens’ real and personal property until its judgments are satisfied.

DHS and DOJ Begin Imposing (Often Massive) Fines on Aliens Who Refuse to Leave It’s high time DHS and DOJ began using the monetary leverage Congress gave them decades ago to encourage aliens under final orders of removal to depart the United States.

The DOJ recently announced the arrest of Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, an Iraqi national and “senior member" of a US designated foreign terrorist organization, who is charged with six counts of terror-related offenses.

The Fake Cartel Sicario in the Real Prosecution of an Alleged Iraqi Terrorist Nothing in the Al-Saadi complaint claims cartels have carried out attacks on behalf of organizations more commonly thought of as “foreign terrorists” in this country, but it certainly suggests they may and — if the contentions in that document are true — at least one high-ranking terrorist l...

On May 14, the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement held a hearing titled “Fairfax County, Virginia: The Dangerous Consequences of Sanctuary Policies”.

Takeaways from the House Judiciary Hearing on ‘Sanctuary Policies’ in Fairfax County, Va. 100,000 “illegal immigrants” – the majority likely unknown and unvetted — in a county with a Census-estimated population of 1,167,873 (as of July 2025) means roughly 8.6 percent of the folks in Fairfax are here illegally, and if one-in-five households there include an illegal alien.

Millions came illegally.

Many of them realized they could get work permits if they simply applied for asylum.

Now they aren’t coming to court because they never wanted asylum — they wanted to work.

DOJ: Asylum Applicants Are Skipping Immigration Court at Record Levels Millions of aliens came illegally under Biden, were released by DHS under the ruse of being “asylum seekers”. Many realized they could get work permits if they simply applied for asylum; and now — in increasing numbers — they aren’t coming to court because they never wanted asylum — they...

🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: People Who Get Arrested Have an Above-Average Crime Rate

Sanctuary jurisdictions should take note.

BREAKING: People Who Get Arrested Have an Above-Average Crime Rate The claim that illegal immigrants have a low crime rate rings hollow when advocates are willing to release specific illegal immigrants who have demonstrated their criminality.

It’s good that our chief diplomat, who “supervises the administration of U.S. immigration laws abroad”, not only understands what is best about America but is willing, unprepared, to express it in this cynical age.

Marco Rubio’s Impromptu WH Remarks, and the Challenge of Assimilation It’s good that our chief diplomat, who “supervises the administration of U.S. immigration laws abroad”, not only understands what is best about America but is willing, unprepared, to express it in this cynical age. Assimilation has long been a challenge here for both alien and native, but if m...