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1 week ago | 
cis.org | Andrew Arthur
Even as the prior administration tanked 700K other cases; a symptom of a deliberately broken immigration system The Washington Times has reported that the backlog of cases pending before U.S. immigration courts declined for the first time in 17 years as the Trump administration continues to lock down the border.
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2 weeks ago | 
cis.org | Andrew Arthur |Andrew McCarthy
View Podcast ArchiveFollow Parsing Immigration Policy on Ricochet, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, Amazon Music, Spotify, Pandora, or use the podcast's RSS Feed. Listen to "Andy McCarthy on Executive Overreach, Courts, and the Constitution" on Spreaker.
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3 weeks ago | 
cis.org | Andrew Arthur
Was immigration judge’s reference to Guatemala the source of the error? On April 1, the New York Times reported: “A Maryland man who was in the United States legally was deported to El Salvador and imprisoned there because of an ‘administrative error.’” The “Maryland man” in question is Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, and those facts — and that he is a native and citizen of El Salvador — are largely undisputed.
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3 weeks ago | 
cis.org | George Fishman
Congress has provided the Department of Homeland Security with powerful tools to remove noncitizen immigrants who support terrorism or incite genocide. The Biden administration refused to use these tools. Fortunately, the Trump administration thinks differently.
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3 weeks ago | 
cis.org | Jessica Vaughan |George Fishman
Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 198 View Podcast ArchiveFollow Parsing Immigration Policy on Ricochet, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, Amazon Music, Spotify, Pandora, or use the podcast's RSS Feed. Listen to "The Court’s Role in the Use of the Alien Enemies Act" on Spreaker.
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3 weeks ago | 
cis.org | Andrew Arthur
Two separate polls released in the past week show strong support for President Trump’s key immigration policies: closing the border and deporting aliens here illegally. In fact, those are the most popular among the new administration’s policies, underscoring lingering discontent over the prior administration’s much more permissive immigration stances. The first poll was conducted for CBS News, sampling 2,609 U.S. adults, and was conducted between March 27 and 28.
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4 weeks ago | 
cis.org | Andrew Arthur
I recently went to the western end of the Southwest border, where it meets the Pacific Ocean south of San Diego. Let’s just say that there’s a very different border there now under Trump than the chaos that has reigned in the past four years, but don’t get too complacent; smugglers may be evil, but they are resourceful, as well. San Diego Sector. The Border Patrol’s San Diego sector is likely the most geographically diverse part of the 1,954-mile Southwest border.
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4 weeks ago | 
cis.org | Mark Krikorian |Andrew Arthur |George Fishman
View Podcast ArchiveFollow Parsing Immigration Policy on Ricochet, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, Amazon Music, Spotify, Pandora, or use the podcast's RSS Feed. Listen to "The Mahmoud Khalil Deportation Case" on Spreaker. SummaryIn this week’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy podcast, Center for Immigration Studies analysts discuss the legal and policy implications of the Mahmoud Khalil case.
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1 month ago | 
cis.org | George Fishman
Last month, Reuters reported that Caleb Vitello, then U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) acting director, “has been reassigned as arrests and deportations have lagged expectations”. President Trump’s border “Czar” Tom Homan has indicated his unhappiness with the number of ICE arrests of removable aliens. They are three times what they were a year ago, and while “three times higher is good”, Homan is “not satisfied”.
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1 month ago | 
cis.org | Mark Krikorian |Andrew Arthur |Todd Bensman
View Podcast ArchiveFollow Parsing Immigration Policy on Ricochet, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, Amazon Music, Spotify, Pandora, or use the podcast's RSS Feed. Listen to "U.S.-Mexico Border Transformed Under Trump’s Policies" on Spreaker. SummaryFieldwork undertaken by the Center for Immigration Studies reveals a border now under control, offering clear evidence that the border crisis was never an unstoppable force but rather the result of policy decisions.