Center for Immigration Studies

A Center for Immigration Studies report released today calls for a bright-line rule, formalized in federal law, banning holders of dual citizenship from accessing classified U.S. information.

Pick a Side: Prohibit dual citizens from access to classified information Certain members of the military, law enforcement, and all our spies and diplomats must have loyalty to one country and one country only: our own.

The dissent in CASA would have made the federal courts — and district courts in particular — the strongest branch, vesting in a single judge the authority to shut down executive branch policy.

No — CASA v. Trump Isn’t a ‘Return to the Constitutional Horrors of Dred Scott’ At issue in CASA was the authority of trial-level U.S. district court judges to issue nationwide injunctions blocking the enforcement of executive branch policies.

Podcast Episode 211: Marriage Fraud - The Hidden Gateway to U.S. Entry with Marguerite Telford and Robert Lee.

Lee, a former USCIS Immigration Officer and author, discusses how sham marriages are orchestrated to gain a green card—and eventually citizenship.

Marriage Fraud: The Hidden Gateway to U.S. Entry This week’s episode of the Parsing Immigration Policy podcast explores a topic rarely covered in the media: marriage fraud.

While not ruling on the merits of the case, the Supreme Court stayed the injunction while the district court’s decision undergoes appellate review.

DHS Can Again Remove Criminal Aliens to Third Countries after Supreme Court Ejects D.V.D. Outraged commentators have proclaimed that the Supreme Court has effectively nullified the Convention Against Torture. The Supreme Court has done nothing of the sort.

Long story short: Nationwide injunctions aren’t supported by law and are no more.

But lower courts might try to sneak around the Court’s opinion in CASA by expanding third-party standing or bypassing limits on class-action relief.

SCOTUS Issues ‘Birthright Citizenship’ Opinion that Says Nothing About Birthright Citizenship The only question before the Court was whether district courts could issue so-called “nationwide” or “universal” injunctions blocking executive actions. Long story short: They can’t.

Panel at 10am: Safe Third Countries - The Future of Asylum and Immigration Control

The International Network for Immigration Research (INIR) will convene a virtual panel discussion hosted by the Center for Immigration Studies.

Safe Third Countries: The Future of Asylum and Immigration Control On June 26, 2025, the International Network for Immigration Research (INIR) will convene a virtual panel discussion.

Have scholars reached a consensus that immigration has no downsides for the United States?

Listening to advocates and their allied media, one might assume so.

The purpose of this compendium is to dispel such self-serving myths.

A Compendium of Recent Academic Work Showing Negative Impacts of Immigration [Editor's Note: This is the fifth and most up-to-date edition of the compendium.

With the border now secure, and the migrant inflow reversed, the economics of illegal migration are apparent for those who care to see.

Border Secure, Wages Up The Biden administration ushered in millions of largely unskilled migrants, cheered on by many who received the benefits of cheap labor and bore few of the costs. With the border now secure, and the migrant inflow reversed, the economics of illegal migration are apparent for those who care to see.

Podcast Ep. 209: A Conversation with Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach.

A key national voice on immigration issues, Kobach shares with host Mark Krikorian insights into the efforts that states are taking to combat illegal immigration.

A Conversation with Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach, chairman of the Republican Attorneys General Association, joins Parsing Immigration Policy for a wide-ranging discussion of immigration.

NEW: Our analysis shows a large decline in the immigrant population (legal and illegal) between January and May.

The decline was caused by a falloff of non-citizens from Latin America who arrived in 1980 or later, a population that overlaps with illegal immigrants.

Illegal Population Down Since January A large decline in the number of illegal immigrants could be very helpful to less-educated U.S.-born and legal-immigrant workers, whose wages may rise as a result. Further, a tighter labor market and higher wages may help to draw back into jobs the near-record number of working-age American men with...

📊 Poll: The results are all over the map, but it shows that solid majorities still support border security and the deportation of criminal illegal aliens, the keystones of Trump’s immigration policies.

Harvard/Harris Releases Immigration-Heavy Poll Solid majorities support border security and the deportation of criminal illegal aliens, the keystones of Trump’s immigration policies.