Center for Immigration Studies

Center for Immigration Studies The Center for Immigration Studies is an independent research institute that examines the impact of immigration on the United States.

📉 NEW DATA: Since January 2025 when President Trump took office, data shows an unprecedented 2.9 MILLION DECLINE in the ...
09/03/2026

📉 NEW DATA: Since January 2025 when President Trump took office, data shows an unprecedented 2.9 MILLION DECLINE in the foreign-born population — naturalized citizens, lawful permanent residents, long-term temporary visitors, and illegal immigrants.

Data shows an unprecedented 2.9 million decline in the foreign-born population — naturalized citizens, lawful permanent residents, long-term temporary visitors, and illegal immigrants.

$3k fine for alien who failed to voluntarily depart upheld by the Board of Immigration Appeals.
09/02/2026

$3k fine for alien who failed to voluntarily depart upheld by the Board of Immigration Appeals.

If you want to see what decades of non-enforcement of the INA looks like, consider R-P-L-, an alien granted the privilege of leaving voluntarily, but who for more than 20 years abused that privilege and remained in the futile hope he could legally stay. Congress intends DHS to enforce the law, and f...

Watch LIVE: The Problem of Birth TourismTestimony before the Task Force on Defending Constitutional Rights and Exposing ...
09/01/2026

Watch LIVE: The Problem of Birth Tourism

Testimony before the Task Force on Defending Constitutional Rights and Exposing Institutional Abuses, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

Concern over birth tourism is really a component of the larger set of issues raised by the practice of granting automatic citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil, regardless of the parent's circumstances, time in the country, or relationship with the United States.

Did the H-1B Coalition express any concern whatsoever about laid-off American citizens and lawful permanent residents?
08/31/2026

Did the H-1B Coalition express any concern whatsoever about laid-off American citizens and lawful permanent residents?

Many in the H-1B employer community don’t have the best interests of America and her citizens in mind.

Mainstream media is back, pushing the claim that ICE has transgressed some rule of the universe by arresting aliens with...
08/28/2026

Mainstream media is back, pushing the claim that ICE has transgressed some rule of the universe by arresting aliens without criminal records.

Some really smart people in the media just don’t seem to get it — or don’t want to.

Like clockwork, major media outlets are back, pushing what has become a stock — but tedious — claim that ICE under Trump II has transgressed some commonly agreed-upon rule of the universe by ramping up immigration arrests of aliens without criminal records. Some really smart people in the media ...

Podcast Episode 269: Does Immigration Drive Up Housing Costs? w/ and Jason Richwine.Richwine discusses his forthcoming ...
08/27/2026

Podcast Episode 269: Does Immigration Drive Up Housing Costs? w/ and Jason Richwine.

Richwine discusses his forthcoming study, scheduled for publication this fall in the peer-reviewed journal Cityscape.

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DHS is proposing to amend its regulations to add a $103,265 fee to cap-subject H-1B petitions, including petitions eligi...
08/26/2026

DHS is proposing to amend its regulations to add a $103,265 fee to cap-subject H-1B petitions, including petitions eligible for advanced-degree exemption. The fee would not apply to H-1B petitions that are not subject to the cap.

DHS says the objective of this new proposed H-1B fee rule to is generate revenue to support the costs of administering the lawful immigration system across multiple departments and agencies.

The Board of Immigration Appeals concluded the INA requires Immigration Judges to give aliens 10 days to find a lawyerIf...
08/26/2026

The Board of Immigration Appeals concluded the INA requires Immigration Judges to give aliens 10 days to find a lawyer

If this precedent stands, it will remove a huge impediment to the smooth functioning of our immigration system.

For decades, respondents in immigration court have used serial continuances to stretch their removal cases out indefinitely, thus stymieing DHS’s ability to deport them. In this recent decision the BIA put an end to that practice — for now — and put aliens in proceedings on notice that, if the...

Is America immune to the societal forces that allowed the gang r**e scandal and wreaked havoc in the UK?
08/26/2026

Is America immune to the societal forces that allowed the gang r**e scandal and wreaked havoc in the UK?

This article discusses the conclusions of Britain’s R**e Gang Inquiry as to what it called the decades-long “systematic targeting of vulnerable girls” for sexual violence in the UK “by predominantly Muslim Pakistani gangs” and the factors that enabled such violence, including the culpabili...

Podcast Episode 268: J-1 Visa Program - A Cheap Labor Program with Mark Krikorian and Jessica Vaughan.A discussion of a ...
08/20/2026

Podcast Episode 268: J-1 Visa Program - A Cheap Labor Program with Mark Krikorian and Jessica Vaughan.

A discussion of a new report that finds the J-1 program has evolved into a major temporary foreign-worker program.

A new episode of the Center for Immigration Studies podcast Parsing Immigration Policy examines the findings of the recently published CIS report, Exchange Visa Programs Operate Mainly For Cheap Labor, Not Cultural Exchange.

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