49% for Legal Households, 62% for Illegals Low levels of education — not legal status — are the main reason immigrant welfare use is high, according to a new report by the Center for Immigration Studies. The report estimates welfare use separately for legal and illegal immigrant households based on Census Bureau data, and is […]

The way the government detains illegal immigrants often breaks fundamental constitutional guarantees, and holding whole families in detention is a particularly harsh abuse of human rights, the U.S. Civil Rights Commission said in a controversial new report Thursday, wading deeply into the immigration debate. Some detention facilities – both government-run and private ones operating on […]

Elizabeth A. Hacker and Mahlon F. Hanson are retired immigration judges and Department of Justice attorneys who now write commentary on the proper enforcement of immigration law and the current state of immigration enforcement policies. Several of their articles have been published by the Immigration Reform Law Institute; however, a recent submission regarding sanctuary cities was […]

By Alex Nowrasteh Pope Francis asked all Catholics to pray for those “who seek a home where they can live without fear” but went further by actually praising those who help refugees.  In arguing for the admission of more Syrian refugees, he said the goal should be “to give them a concrete hope, and not […]