This year, FAIR calculated that illegal immigration is costing Americans nearly $80 billion in added K-12 education expenditures. A deep dive into one rural Texas school district highlights a fiscal, academic, and social collapse in the making. To read…
Immigration Blog Posts
In a recent interview with 60 Minutes, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas ignored the obvious and, again, declined to call the situation on the Southern border a crisis. Secretary Mayorkas did, however, acknowledge that the asylum system is…
As remittances to Mexico from the United States continue to boom, at least $4.4 billion of the $58.5 billion in money transfers last year may be the fruit of narcotics trafficking and other criminal activity, according to a new report. To read the rest…
The often overlooked, yet key public official most responsible for quality of life and public safety in thousands of American communities carries a badge, not a briefcase. In old England they were called “Shire Reeves” (get it?) whose job was to keep t…
Controversy surrounding the fabled Border Patrol “whipping” at Del Rio, Texas, continues to swirl eight months after an exhaustive government investigation concluded that no agents struck any migrants. To read the rest of the article click here
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Despite tidal waves of illegal aliens flooding America’s southern border – and no end in sight – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is budgeting for fewer migrant detentions in fiscal 2024. To read the rest of the article click here
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The roof leaks, the fence is broken, and the grass needs mowing. Spring is fix-it time and you need help, but how do you proceed ethically if you’re concerned about illegal immigration? After all, with 15.5 million illegal aliens already in the U.S., a…
Flouting a recent court ruling, Border Patrol agents in Brownsville, Texas, are releasing busloads of Chinese nationals into the U.S. amid a massive surge of migrants from the communist country. To read the rest of the article click here
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In his 2021 book, America’s Covert Border War, the Center for Immigration Studies’ Texas-based Senior National Security Fellow Todd Bensman demonstrated the connection between open, unsecured borders and infiltration by dangerous terrorists. In his lat…
Shari Rendall, FAIR’s long-time State and Local Engagement Director, lives by a quote she heard in law school: “The most important political office is that of the private citizen.” Unknowingly, Supreme Court Justice, Louis D. Brandeis, captured perfect…