Latest Illegal Podcast Episodes
Chinese Organized Crime Takes Root in Vacationland
Parsing Immigration Policy - April 18, 2024 15:48 - 53 minutes ★★★★ - 31 ratingsThis week’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy features Steve Robinson, editor-in-chief of the Maine Wire, a digital investigative news outlet, who joins our guest host, Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies. The two experts discuss how Chinese crimi...
The State of Border Security: A Look from the Mexico Side
Parsing Immigration Policy - April 12, 2024 14:33 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 31 ratingsIn this week’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy, Todd Bensman, the Center’s senior national security fellow, joins us live from Juarez, Mexico. Bensman takes us into La Linea Cartel territory, where he is investigating the smuggling of dangerous criminals into the United States. Reporting ...
Mayorkas Impeachment Heading to Senate
FAIR Immigration | Understanding Immigration - April 04, 2024 15:39 - 23 minutesSenator Mike Lee (R-Utah) discusses the impeachment of DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Schumer's attempts in the Senate to block a full impeachment trial with FAIR's Executive Director, Julie Kirchner. ★ Support this podcast ★
The Size and Growth of the Immigrant Population in the U.S.
Parsing Immigration Policy - April 04, 2024 14:51 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 31 ratingsThe starting point of any conversation about immigration should be the numbers. This week’s episode of the Center for Immigration Studies podcast highlights a recent report co-authored by Steven Camarota, the Center’s director of research, which examines the number and share of the foreign-born i...
Is the New USCIS Fee Schedule Fair?
Parsing Immigration Policy - March 28, 2024 11:47 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 31 ratingsIn today’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy, Elizabeth Jacobs, the Center’s Director of Regulatory Affairs and Policy, does a deep dive into her recent analysis of the new U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) fee schedule, set to take effect on April 1, 2024. Jacobs discusses h...
Kaus on Immigration Politics
Parsing Immigration Policy - March 21, 2024 14:44 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 31 ratingsCampaign season is in full swing as the 2024 presidential election looms less than eight months away. According to a recent Gallup poll, immigration is considered the biggest issue facing the country, with a majority of Americans expressing disapproval of the president’s handling of the issue. ...
Straight Talk on Biden’s Parole Flights
Parsing Immigration Policy - March 14, 2024 14:57 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 31 ratingsSince September 2023, the Center for Immigration Studies has been on the forefront of reporting on the Biden administration direct-flight and parole program that has authorized the arrival of more than 320,000 inadmissible aliens through the CBP One app. The program allows migrants to take commer...
Combatting Illegal Immigration on the State and Local Level
Parsing Immigration Policy - March 07, 2024 17:26 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 31 ratingsOn this week’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy, Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, joins us to discuss what states and other local jurisdictions can do to combat illegal immigration in wake of the Biden administration’s refusal to enforce immi...
Schumer attempts to block Mayorkas impeachment trial
FAIR Immigration | Understanding Immigration - March 06, 2024 20:16 - 18 minutesSenator Roger Marshall (R-Kansas) discusses the Biden Administration's border crisis and attempts in the Senate to block an impeachment trial of DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas with FAIR's Executive Director, Julie Kirchner. ★ Support this podcast ★
Trump and Biden Head to Border Amid Speculation of ‘Bold’ Executive Action on Immigration
Parsing Immigration Policy - February 29, 2024 15:31 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 31 ratingsPresident Biden and former President Trump are both scheduled to visit Texas border towns today, just as polling reveals widespread dissatisfaction with the president’s handling of the border and immigration. With the failure of the Senate border bill and growing concern over the record number of...
Report: Can U.S. Farm Workers Be Replaced by Machines?
Parsing Immigration Policy - February 22, 2024 18:42 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 31 ratingsA Center for Immigration Studies report and companion podcast episode, “Can U.S. Farm Workers be Replaced by Machines? Mechanizing Fruit and Vegetable Production,” provide historical context as well as analysis of current challenges and prospects for farm labor and mechanization. Both the report ...
The Democrats’ Immigration Evolution
Parsing Immigration Policy - February 15, 2024 18:06 - 42 minutes ★★★★ - 31 ratingsOn this week’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy, we are joined by Ruy Teixeira, co-author with John Judis of last fall’s book, Where Have All the Democrats Gone?: The Soul of the Party in the Age of Extremes. Teixeira, currently a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, worked fr...
Senate Border Bill Update
Parsing Immigration Policy - February 07, 2024 20:08 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 31 ratingsThe Senate bill that would provide billions of dollars’ worth of funding to Ukraine in exchange for increased border security measures is unlikely to pass into law, but certain provisions from the bill may make their way into future border legislation. Andrew Arthur, the Center for Immigration St...
European Lessons for America’s Mass Migration Crisis
Parsing Immigration Policy - February 01, 2024 10:30 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 31 ratingsThis Week's episode of the Parsing Immigration Podcast offers key findings from a European field-research trip by Todd Bensman, the Center’s national security fellow. Bensman was a visiting fellow at the Budapest-based Migration Research Institute, and examined borders in Hungary, Slovenia, Polan...
Panel Podcast: Asylum in the U.S. and Europe
Parsing Immigration Policy - January 25, 2024 15:56 - 49 minutes ★★★★ - 31 ratingsThe Center for Immigration Studies hosted a panel discussion examining present asylum laws in the United States and in Europe, how they work, their impact on illegal immigration, and proposals for reform. Members of the newly formed International Network for Immigration Research (INIR), which inc...
How States Can Fight Human Trafficking
Parsing Immigration Policy - January 18, 2024 12:58 - 36 minutes ★★★★ - 31 ratingsAs January marks Human Trafficking Prevention Month, the Center for Immigration Studies releases a second podcast interview focused on the subject. This week’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy features Frank Russo, director of the CPAC Foundation’s Center for Combatting Human Trafficking, wh...
Florida Grand Jury: Biden Putting Alien Children in Harm’s Way
Parsing Immigration Policy - January 11, 2024 14:34 - 49 minutes ★★★★ - 31 ratingsJanuary is Human Trafficking Prevention Month, and with this episode of Parsing Immigration Policy, we seek to bring more awareness to the issue as it pertains to immigration. Our guest host this week is Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, and she is...
2023 Immigration Roundup and 2024 Predictions
Parsing Immigration Policy - January 04, 2024 16:28 - 49 minutes ★★★★ - 31 ratingsToday’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy features experts from the Center for Immigration Studies discussing immigration highlights of 2023. Mark Krikorian, the Center’s executive director and host of the podcast, is joined by Director of Investigations Jon Feere and Senior National Security...
The Flores Settlement and the Border Crisis
Parsing Immigration Policy - December 21, 2023 17:27 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 31 ratingsThe border crisis has reached historic levels under the Biden administration, but one of the many roots of this crisis extends beyond the current administration. This episode of Parsing Immigration Policy highlights the Flores settlement, an agreement that established requirements for the federal...
Panel Podcast: The Size and Implications of the Immigrant Population
Parsing Immigration Policy - December 14, 2023 13:06 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 31 ratingsThe Center for Immigration Studies hosted a panel discussion December 11. The featured experts delved into the findings of the Center’s latest report, which revealed that the total foreign-born or immigrant population (legal and illegal) was nearly 50 million in October 2023 — a 4.5 million incre...
Founders of Immigration Think Tank in France Discuss French Policies and Trends
Parsing Immigration Policy - December 07, 2023 13:47 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 31 ratingsThis week’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy brings a global perspective to the immigration debate with Nicolas Monti and Maxime Aymar, co-founders of L'Observatoire de l'immigration et de la démographie (OID), an immigration think tank based in Paris. The guests share information on immigra...
Congressman Chip Roy on How to Stop the Biden Administration's Border Crisis
FAIR Immigration | Understanding Immigration - December 04, 2023 13:48 - 23 minutesCongressman Chip Roy (R-Texas) discusses the Biden Administration's border crisis and negotiations in Congress to secure our borders as part of a foreign aid package with FAIR's Executive Director, Julie Kirchner. ★ Support this podcast ★
Marriage Fraud: In Search of a Green Card
Parsing Immigration Policy - November 30, 2023 16:48 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 31 ratingsSummaryThis week’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy delves into the issue of marriage fraud, an arrangement where individuals enter into marriages solely for the purpose of securing a green card. David North, a fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, joins host and executive director o...
The Power of the Freedom of Information Act
Parsing Immigration Policy - November 16, 2023 17:19 - 47 minutes ★★★★ - 31 ratingsOn this week’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy, we are joined by Colin Farnsworth, the chief FOIA counsel at the Center for Immigration Studies, to discuss a powerful tool that promotes transparency and accountability from federal agencies – the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Farnsworth...
Trial Insider: People v. Adam Thomas - Crossbow murder
Crime News Insider - November 13, 2023 08:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsOn July 21, 2023, 20 year-old Adam Thomas of Sacramento was tried for 1st degree murder for the death of his brother, Trenton Thomas. Trenton was found shot to death by a crossbow in a park in San Diego. Was it an accident or was it a murder? Deputy District Attorney Christina Eastman joined the...
Biden Administration’s Illegal Immigration System
Parsing Immigration Policy - November 09, 2023 20:45 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 31 ratingsIn this week’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy, the Center for Immigration Studies looks at the number of illegal aliens released into the United States by the Biden administration in FY 2023 and their pathways for entry. Andrew Arthur, the Center’s resident fellow in law and policy, joins ...
Immigration Law and National Security: A Tool Against Cartels and Terrorists
Parsing Immigration Policy - November 02, 2023 14:25 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 31 ratingsIn this week’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy, the Center for Immigration Studies delves into the critical issue of addressing national security threats posed by foreigners, both legal and illegal, residing in the United States. Podcast guest George Fishman, a senior legal fellow at the Ce...
Congressman Brian Babin on the Biden Administration's Border Crisis
FAIR Immigration | Understanding Immigration - October 31, 2023 19:12 - 21 minutesCongressman Brian Babin (R-Texas) discusses the Biden Administration's border crisis and ongoing discussions in Congress to secure our borders as part of a funding package with FAIR's Executive Director, Julie Kirchner. ★ Support this podcast ★
Tucson Sector Slammed with Skyrocketing Border Crossings
FAIR Immigration | Understanding Immigration - October 31, 2023 19:08 - 27 minutesSheriff Mark Lamb of Pinal County, AZ shares with FAIR how the cartels are using Biden's border crisis to their advantage to traffic people and drugs through his county to everywhere, USA ★ Support this podcast ★
Biden’s Secretive CBP One Scheme
Parsing Immigration Policy - October 26, 2023 13:10 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 31 ratingsOn this week’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy we are joined by Todd Bensman, the Center for Immigration Studies senior national security fellow, to discuss crucial details about the Biden administration’s CBP One scheme revealed as the result of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation...