Parsing Immigration Policy
Center for Immigration Studies
A weekly discussion of immigration policy matters, both immediate and long-term, with researchers from the Center for Immigration Studies and guests.The Center for Immigration Studies is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit, research organization. Since our founding in 1985 by Otis Graham Jr., we have pursued a single mission – providing immigration policymakers, the academic community, news media, and concerned citizens with reliable information about the social, economic, environmental, security, and fiscal consequences of legal and illegal immigration into the United States.Listen to all episodes of Parsing Immigration Policy at Ricochet.com.
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Mar 9, 2023 • 34min
Alternatives to Detention or Alternatives to Enforcement?
Federal law requires that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detain illegal border-crossers pending the completion of their cases. Despite this detention mandate, the Biden administration has been releasing hundreds of thousands of aliens on “Alternatives to Detention” (ATD), where they are monitored via ankle bracelets, GPS tracking, or the SmartLINK app. ATD effectiveness is poor... Source
Mar 3, 2023 • 34min
Biden's New Asylum Rule Is Not What You Think
A proposed new asylum regulation advertised as deterring illegal immigration at the southern border is unlikely to have the intended result. Under the new rule, some aliens who have not applied for protection in a country they passed through en route to the United States may be ineligible for asylum under some circumstances. Immigration activists have decried the rule as a return to Trump-era... Source
Feb 23, 2023 • 44min
Panel: OVERRUN – The Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History
The Center for Immigration Studies hosted a panel discussion on February 21 featuring three reporters who have covered the border crisis from the frontlines. Their on-the-ground field reporting in Central America, Mexico, and along the U.S.-Mexico border – far from Washington, D.C. – reflects the stories and actions of the primary sources: the migrants, law enforcement, and the residents impacted... Source
Feb 16, 2023 • 43min
U Visas for Illegal-Alien Crime Victims: Yet Another Amnesty Ploy
This week’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy highlights a visa program rife with fraud – the U visa program. Designed to assist law enforcement agencies in prosecuting criminals, the U visa is granted to victims of crime who lack immigration status and allows them to stay in the country (and work legally), and eventually get a green card and citizenship, ostensibly to aid in the prosecution... Source
Feb 9, 2023 • 32min
The Welcome Corps: A ‘Private’ Refugee Program Funded by Taxpayers
The State Department recently launched the Welcome Corps, billed as a “private” refugee sponsorship program modeled on last year’s arrangement for Ukrainians paroled into the U.S. The program permits a group of five or more private citizens in the United States, including legal permanent residents, to take over the roles of the State Department, the UN, and government-funded contractors in... Source
Feb 2, 2023 • 33min
Immigration Parole Explained
In early January the Biden administration, without the approval of Congress, announced a new immigration program, granting parole to 360,000 foreign nationals from Haiti, Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua. This week’s Parsing Immigration Policy episode puts this Biden expansion of parole authority in context citing the creation of the parole authority, later congressional limitations... Source
Jan 26, 2023 • 37min
National Human Trafficking Prevention Month
To bring greater attention to the issue of human trafficking, Jessica Vaughan, the Center’s Director of Policy Studies, joins our podcast this week to highlight border-related human trafficking. Current immigration policies are responsible for an out-of-control southern border and for lax guest worker programs, both of which are major contributors to the human trafficking industry in the United... Source
Jan 19, 2023 • 43min
E-Verify: The Key to Deterring Illegal Immigration
The primary reason illegal immigrants come to the United States is jobs, and the best solution for shutting off the magnet of jobs is E-Verify. This free online system, created by Congress as a pilot program in 1986, enables employers to check whether new hires are authorized to work in the United States by submitting the same information that job applicants provide on the mandatory paper I-9 form. Source
Jan 12, 2023 • 41min
The Coming End of Title 42
There’s an immigration crisis at the U.S. southern border, but that border could be all but erased if Title 42 were to end without the administration implementing equally effective enforcement policies. Title 42 is the public-health order that directs the Border Patrol to expel border-jumpers without a hearing. Whether the U.S. can continue to rely on this public-health order to deal with the... Source
Jan 5, 2023 • 42min
CIS Field Work Breaks Two Stories South of the Border
The Center’s Senior National Security Fellow, Todd Bensman, traveled to Mexico to investigate rumors about a shelter in Tijuana serving only Muslim migrants and about thousands of illegal immigrants being funneled into the United States through ports of entry under a questionable program that makes border crossing legal. His trip took him to Tijuana and Mexicali. Given the large number of “special... Source
