Center for Immigration Studies

New Study Shows Fiscal Impact of Refugees on U.S. Taxpayers Can Reach Into Six Figures...Each

The lifetime fiscal cost of a refugee to the American taxpayer ranges between $60,000 and $133,000 per refugee.

Report: Immigration To the U.S. Tied an All-Time Record High In 2016

Total immigration to the United States – including both legal and illegal – tied an all-time record high in 2016, according to the latest data published by the Center for Immigration Studies.

No English? No Problem! Record High 67 Million In U.S. Don't Speak English at Home

According to the CIS report, "nearly half (48.2 percent) of residents in America's five largest cities now speak a language other than English at home."

USCIS Admits 535 Ex-DACA 'Kids' With Gang Ties, Criminal Records Were Released Back Into the U.S.

Ready to hand out those amnesty tickets yet?

U.S. Immigrant Population Hit a 106-Year High in 2016, New Stats Show

The number of immigrants living in the United States hit a record 43.7 million in 2016.

Border Crossings May Be Down, But the Backlog In Our Courts Sure Isn't

Even as illegal border crossings drop at the Southwest U.S. border, America’s immigration courts are still struggling under a backlog of more than half a million cases, according to a new report out...

Report: Trump’s Border Wall Could Save Taxpayers Nearly $64 Billion Over Next Decade

(Image via Twitter) A new Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) report estimates that President Donald Trump’s border wall could save Americans billions of dollars over the next decade. Nearly $64...

Deportations Drop 73% Under Obama, Hit 43-Year Annual Low

Deportations of illegal aliens living inside the United States have tanked 73 percent since 2009, when President Obama first took office, according to a new report from the Center for Immigration Studies....

Record One in Five U.S. Residents Speak a Foreign Language At Home

A record one in five people living in the United States in 2015 spoke a foreign language at home, including nearly one in four public school students, a new study shows. Analyzing the latest data from...

ICE Picks Up 51 Criminal Aliens Convicted of Rape, Kidnapping...

U.S. Immigration and Customs enforcement arrested 51 illegal aliens in the Washington, D.C./Virginia area this past week. Of those arrested, 92 percent had been convicted of crimes in the United States...

Obama Admin. Expands Illegal Alien Child Program to Adults

The Obama administration has expanded its already-questionable program to bring in more illegal alien children to the United States, announcing in a recent press release it will now allow illegal alien...

U.S. Immigration at 15-Year High With 3 Million Arrivals Over the Past Two Years

More than three million new immigrants have settled in the United States over the past two years, with more than one-third of them arriving illegally, according to a new report from the Center for Immigration...

Report: Taxpayers Paid $19.4 Billion Welfare to Illegal Immigrant Households in 2012 Alone

Households headed by immigrants from Central America and Mexico received an average of $8,251 in welfare benefits in 2012 – 86 percent higher than households headed by a U.S. native, according to...

New Report Shows Obama Admin. Releasing Illegal Alien Murderers into the U.S.

The Center for Immigration Studies released a report Monday detailing the Obama administration’s negligent release of criminal illegal aliens who’ve gone on to commit heinous crimes after being...

Report Shows 62 Percent of Illegal Alien Households Are On Welfare

(Photo Credit: Joe Raedle / Getty Images) About 62 percent of households headed up by illegal aliens living in the United States are on some form of welfare – more than twice the percentage of households...

CIS Report: All Net Employment Growth Went To Immigrants, Not Native-Born Americans

According to a new Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) report released today, immigrants—legal and illegal—reaped the benefits from recent job growth more so than native-born men and women...

Report: Obama's Amnesty Hurts the 45% of Working-Age, Low-Education Americans Without Jobs

"The president does not seem to have given any consideration to the abysmal employment picture for less-educated Americans." President Obama's executive amnesty statement Thursday night...