Podcasts about center for immigration studies

On May 3, an incident took place at Quantico Marine Corps base. Todd Bensman of the Center For Immigration Studies believes this to be a terror attack. He's seeking more information, and shares what he knows to Josh Hammer, host of America on Trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The threat of terrorism within our borders has increased dramatically due to open border policies of the current administration. Every town is now a border town as illegal immigrants are being funneled into big cities, small towns, and rural areas across the nation. Each area is suffering with the economic, public health, and security challenges of such mass migration. Linda explores this increasing threat with Todd Bensman, a former counterterrorism intelligence officer and leading expert on the national security threats caused by open borders. Todd is Senior National Security Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies and is author of the important book, “Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History.”  Todd provides information on recent testimony he gave to Congress regarding the threat of potential spies and terrorists entering the country at record rates. Listen today to learn how you can make a difference to protect our nation from terrorism and the ultimate tyranny that could follow.  ©Copyright 2024, Prosperity 101, LLC ______________________________________________________________ For information on Todd Bensman visit www.ToddBensman.com or The Center For Immigration Studies at www.CIS.org ______________________________________________________________   For information about our online course and other resources visit: https://prosperity101.com To order a copy of Prosperity 101 – Job Security Through Business Prosperity® by Linda J. Hansen, click here: https://prosperity101.com/products/ Become a Prosperity Partner: https://prosperity101.com/partner-contribution/ If you would like to be an episode sponsor, please contact us directly at https://prosperity101.com. You can also support this podcast by engaging with our Strategic Partners using the promo codes listed below. Be free to work and free to hire by joining RedBalloon, America's #1 non-woke job board and talent connector. Use Promo Code P101 or go to RedBalloon.work/p101 to join Red Balloon and support Prosperity 101®. Connect with other Kingdom minded business owners by joining the US Christian Chamber of Commerce. Support both organizations by mentioning Prosperity 101, LLC or using code P101 to join. https://uschristianchamber.com Unite for impact by joining Christian Employers Alliance at www.ChristianEmployersAlliance.org and use Promo Code P101. Support Pro-Life Payments and help save babies with every swipe. Visit www.prolifepayments.com/life/p101 for more information. Maximize your podcast by contacting Podcast Town. Contact them today: https://podcasttown.zohothrive.com/affiliateportal/podcasttown/login Thank you to all our guests, listeners, Prosperity Partners, and Strategic Partners. You are appreciated!   The opinions expressed by guests on this podcast do not necessarily represent those held or promoted by Linda J. Hansen or Prosperity 101, LLC.

Today on Truth in Politics and Culture, The Center for Immigration Studies releases a report showing high unemployment among illegal immigrants, UNC, MIT, and the University of Florida dump them DEI departments, the Biden Administration puts meaningless tariffs on $18 in Chinese imports to buy union votes, Hogan wins in Maryland and Justice wins in West Virginia.

Center For Immigration Studies' Art Arthur talks about the Biden Administration sending Illegal Immigrants to cities across the country. Jewish UCLA Student talks about Pro Palestine and Pro Israel Protesters Clashing overnight on UCLA's Campus. More on Columbia University Anti-Israel protests. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Listen to Todd Bensman on Cats & Cosby from Thursday, April 11th, 2024. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Todd Bensman: Senior Fellow at Center for Immigration Studies: Exposes Biden's secret migrant flights into New York Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

House Committee on Natural Resources Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Biden's Border Crisis: Examining the Impacts of International Cartels Targeting Indian Country Wednesday, April 10, 2024 | 10:15 AM On Wednesday, April 10, 2024, at 10:15 a.m., in room 1324 Longworth House Office Building, the Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will hold an oversight hearing titled “Biden's Border Crisis: Examining the Impacts of International Cartels Targeting Indian Country.” Biden's Border Crisis: Examining the Impacts of International Cartels Targeting Indian Country | Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Print this Page Share by Email Wednesday, April 10, 2024 | 10:15 AM Tags: Oversight and Investigations On Wednesday, April 10, 2024, at 10:15 a.m., in room 1324 Longworth House Office Building, the Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will hold an oversight hearing titled “Biden's Border Crisis: Examining the Impacts of International Cartels Targeting Indian Country.” Witnesses are by invitation only. Witnesses Mr. Bryce Kirk Tribal Executive Board Member Fort Peck Tribes Poplar, MT Mr. Jeffrey Stiffarm President Fort Belknap Indian Community Harlem, MT Ms. Jessica Vaughan Director of Policy Studies Center for Immigration Studies St. Helena Island, SC Mr. Verlon M. Jose Chairman Tohono O'odham Nation Sells, AZ [Minority Witness] Committee Notice: https://naturalresources.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=415813

Part one of Red Eye Radio with Eric Harley and Gary McNamara includes the Oregon Governor signing a bill re-criminalizing drug possession into law. A poll shows most Michigan voters support a mass deportation of illegals. Biden campaign lies about what Trump actually said regarding criminal illegals. Wisconsin governor facing backlash after vetoing a bill to protect women's sports. Author J.K. Rowling challenges Scotland's hate speech law. The liberal media have the same talking point about criminal illegals. A look at the Center For Immigration Studies research on crimes by illegals in Texas. The truth about subsidies for stadiums.    For more talk on the issues that matter to you, listen on radio stations across America Monday-Friday 12am-5am CT (1am-6am ET and 10pm-3am PT), download the RED EYE RADIO SHOW app, asking your smart speaker, or listening at RedEyeRadioShow.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

 Mike Elam hosts the first hour of the Annie Frey Show, delving into the mysterious decline in border crossings following diplomatic meetings between the Biden administration and Mexican officials. Todd Bensman, Senior National Security Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, joins the discussion, shedding light on his recent op-ed in the New York Post. Later in the hour, the entertaining segment "The Bee or Not the Bee" takes center stage, featuring Leah and Mike as they navigate through amusing headlines, trying to discern whether they are real stories or cleverly crafted fake stories by Babylon Bee.

Mike Elam hosts this episode of the Annie Frey show, sitting in for Annie Frey. The discussion with Todd Bensman, Senior National Security Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, revolves around Bensman's recent op-ed in the New York Post. They examine the suspicious decline in border crossings following diplomatic meetings between the Biden administration and Mexican officials.  

Mike Slater reacts to the huge news that Harvard President Claudine Gay has resigned! Listen in for his hot takes on this developing story and see how he ties it into the ongoing illegal immigration conversation that's also been taking place lately! Principles matter!Following that, Andrew Arthur, Resident Fellow in Law and Policy for the Center for Immigration Studies, chats with Slater about the Biden Administration's new "parole" plan for illegal immigrants. What is it and what can true patriots do to combat this nonsense? Listen in and find out!

House Committee on Natural Resources Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Securing Our Border, Saving Our National Parks Wednesday, October 18, 2023 | 3:00 PM NOTE: POSTPONED UNTIL 3:00 PM on October 18, 2023 On Wednesday, October 18, 2023, at 2:00 p.m., in room 1324 Longworth House Office Building, the Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will hold an oversight hearing titled "Securing Our Border, Saving Our National Parks." Witnesses and Testimony PANEL I Mr. Michael Reynolds Deputy Director National Park Service DOI Washington, DC Mr. Chris French Deputy Chief National Forest System USDA Forest Service Washington, DC PANEL II • Ms. Julie Axelrod Director of Litigation Center for Immigration Studies Alexandria, Virginia Lt. John Nores Jr. (ret.) Special Operations Marijuana Enforcement Team California Department of Fish and Wildlife Morgan Hill, California The Hon. Verlon M. Jose Chairman Tohono O'odham Nation Sells, Arizona [Minority witness] Committee Notice: https://naturalresources.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=414953

The show's guests are Dr. Mike Vickers, a resident from Brooks County, TX, who talks about the illegal aliens crossing his property; Todd Bensman from the Center for Immigration Studies talks about how illegal aliens are claiming to be “families” to enter easily into the US; D. A. King from Dustin Inman Society in Marietta, GA, talks about his lawsuit against the Southern Poverty Law Center; and Ron Kovach, FAIR press secretary in Washington, DC, provides an update of congressional legislation affecting the border crisis. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The border crisis continues to grow and evolve. It has moved beyond the southern border into cities and communities creating homelessness, drug-related deaths, and crime. Even the northern border is seeing illegal immigration and criminal activities. The show's guests speak out about the problems and issues.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jessica Vaughan of The Center of Immigration Studies calls in to talk about the border, and what can been done for fix it.

The Texas state legislature began meeting this week with several major issues to address, among them the border crisis, election integrity, and lowering property taxes. Jill Glover, Legislative Affairs Chair for the Republican Party of Texas speaks about the expectation of this session. Todd Bensman, Center for Immigration Studies, and Jaeson Jones, border reporter for Newsmax provide us updates on the border crisis and the results of the Biden visit to El Paso and Mexico. Our final guest is Todd Staples, president of the Texas Oil and Gas Association, who talks about the challenges, accomplishments, and goals of the oil and gas industry under an adversarial Biden Administration. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

6am hour -- New House Speaker Kevin McCarthy refuses to seat three Democrats with track record for security concerns from being seated on House Committees, will a Port Orchard man be charged with murder in what appears to be a vigilante response to a suspected mail thief in Kitsap County?, the one possible mistake the 39-year-old man may have made in confronting the suspected mail thief, more crime news involving a series of burglaries across north Kitsap County in late December, WV US Senator Joe Manchin pushes back on Biden Administration plan to possibly ban gas stoves in homes, GUEST: Jessica Vaughn from The Center For Immigration Studies talks to KVI about Human Trafficking Awareness Day and how the scourge of human trafficking is exacerbated by Democrats who refuse to accept border security. 7am hour -- GUEST: The chief spokesman for the Thurston County group "Stop The Airport", Dawn Sonntag, talks to KVI about her group's opposition to a proposed commercial airport outside Lacey and Olympia, Sonntag questions the idea that Puget Sound even needs a 3rd airport let alone in the south Sound, Sonntag lives near the proposed site because she likes the quiet and there are nearby farms and protected wetlands that could be an obstacle to a big airport, meanwhile a group in Pierce County is protesting this Friday about two sites proposed for a new major airport; Seattle high school students call lawsuit by school district against social media giants " a P.R. stunt", Gov. Jay Inslee's 2023 State of the State speech shows how out of touch with reality he is on homeless issues and gun crime problems causing havoc with public safety in Washington. 8am hour -- a Seattle business owner relocates to Austin TX, the business owner has a notable track record for success on Wall Street before founding an investment bank in Seattle (now known as Cascadia Capital), how Austin feels like Seattle did in 2013, Seattle never learns from its mistakes, political liberals will force you to eat nutritionally if they could impose it but they don't seem to worried about drug consumption of drug addicts these days, GUEST: Mary Robnett, Pierce County Prosecutor explains why she wants the WA Legislature to pass a felony drug possession law this session, Robnett says she's been hearing from constituents upset about crime and public safety problems that spiral from widespread drug addiction and consumption, Robnett says if the WA Legislature must act in the next 2 months, how the WA police pursuit restrictions have become "a get out jail free card" to criminals, the "astronomical increase" in WA car thefts is a by-product of the police pursuit restrictions imposed by Legislative Democrats, Robnett gives her solution to get better results for drug treatment of addicts caught committing crimes ; three Bellingham School District administrators are reassigned instead of being fired after failing to report a female student's sexual assault to police, the high likelihood in WA you'd get fired for refusing a COVID shot but only get reassigned as a school assistant principal for failing to report a sexual assault to police.

Joe Selvaggi talks with Todd Bensman, senior fellow at the Center For Immigration Studies, about the conditions for aspiring immigrants and border security officials at the U.S.-Mexico border and the likely effects of the expiration of Title 42, a policy that had denied asylum claims during Covid-19. Guest: Todd Bensman is the Center For Immigration […]

Joe Selvaggi talks with Todd Bensman, senior fellow at the Center For Immigration Studies, about the conditions for aspiring immigrants and border security officials at the U.S.-Mexico border and the likely effects of the expiration of Title 42, a policy that had denied asylum claims during Covid-19.

Tori Rogers, Georgia businesswoman Derrick Maltz, former DEA agent Jaeson Jones, Newsmax border reporter Todd Bensman, Center for Immigration StudiesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

John Zadrozny, Deputy Director for Investigations at America First Legal Foundation. Jaeson Jones, Newsmax reporter, and border crime expert . Todd Bensman, Center for Immigration Studies. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dinesh D'Souza, author and documentary producer. Rodney Scott, former Border Patrol Chief. US Congressman Randy Weber. Jason Richwine, resident scholar at the Center for Immigration Studies. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mark Krikorian, Executive Director for the Center For Immigration Studies, joins Seth to talk about the connection between illegal immigration and crime.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to another episode of the Modern Moron dated October 10th 2022, which means we'll be talking about events from at least two months ago. I'm going to try something new in that I'm not spending so much time on this episode.  My guest is the Senator which is like Conan O'brien saying his guest is Andy Richter, but he brings up a couple of things with no real background or insight or explanation.  He just saw a show for 30 seconds which is more than enough to have an opinion about, whereas I take the due diligence of watching for at least 5 minutes.  We recorded on Friday and I'm publishing on Monday. Here are a few things we cover: Gas Prices - Especially in California where there are stricter environmental laws and also, summer and winter blends.  The Winter blend usually isn't available until November but apparently there will be an early harvest of the gasoline trees out here and they will start in early to mid October. California Gov. Gavin Newsom approved the switch from summer-blend gas to cheaper winter-blend gas. He wrote a letter to the California Air resources Board requesting the switch and here is a quote:  “In light of the dramatic increase in gas prices that California is experiencing, we should not wait until the end of the month to start distributing or to ramp up production of our winter-blend gasoline.  Also, please keep producing the special higher octane fuel I need for my batmobile.  Thank  you.” That is from a letter from Newsom to the California Air Resources Board. Something else to note about gas prices in California is that we have to refine our own gas due to those restrictions.  There are no pipelines running from East to West at least not west of the Rocky mountains to my extensive, extensive  knowledge. Governor De Santis sending immigrants to Martha's Vinyard - yes, this story is extremely old but the topic isn't and I don't really have a problem with it.  I still don't care for De Santis and using unfortunate people who are looking for a better life to make a point is not okay, but I don't see why all of the lower 48 states can't participate in sharing the load of the influx of immigrants at our border. Boston is a sanctuary city that is two thousand miles away from the Mexican border.  After a quick and uniformed check of the immigration statistics for Boston from The Immigrant Learning Center dot-org, the top ten immigrant groups are: China, The Dominican Republic, India, Haiti, Brazil, El Salvador, Vietnam, Canada, Guatemala and Cape Verde which is a group of islands in the Atlantic. The Senator mentions that he enjoys Skinny dipping in his pool - ew.  For some reason he reminds us numerous times that he has a “second home” up in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.  Remember when Pee Wee's Playhouse used to have a secret word and when someone said it, everyone would scream?  Today's word is a phrase and  it's “second home” Flavored Bourbon.  Both the type you buy and the kind you can make at home!  That's a fun home project.   We talk a little about Football and why one might boycott it, and also news sources.  For purposes of this show I usually site the source but if I don't and I say I read something, it probably means I read it on the Associated Press, Reuters or the Wall Street Journal.  If I say I heard something, it was probably NPR.   And then… here's a great  topic for two irrelevant, pasty old white guys to talk about: Kanye West.  The Senator has gotten in the habit of bringing up a topic without doing any research and by research I mean reading the whole article or following up on some basic who, what, where stuff and then he goes off half cocked and then says, “I don't know, I thought it was interesting, and you should look that up and blah, blah, blah.”  Well, I watched some of the interview between Kanye West and Tucker Carlson and I can tell you I'm not really interested in either of them or trying to understand their message.  Why would I?  I'm old and pasty and irrelevant.   I mention a little bit about him from the Wikipedia page on him, but you guys know generally who he is and I don't have the energy or the desire to articulate why I don't care for him any more than I care for, say Keith Olbermann. We join the conversation with me asking the Senator how life is living alone as his wife is in Europe with her daughter and he's generally a little wound up so I have to settle him down.  Hope you find something interesting in this episode and don't forget… the secret phrase is… “Second home” CLOSE: Regarding the funeral of Hell's Angels leader Sonny Barger, the Senator was correct stating that the memorial service was held at a speedway in Stockton, California.   Regarding Kanye West, he does have bipolar disorder and David Letterman asks him about it in the Netflix series “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction”... And his 2018 album is titled, ““I Hate Being Bipolar It's Awesome”.  2018… THAT is cutting edge reporting for the Modern Moron.  The Kanye West Album I did get was called “Called Late Registration”  and has the song Gold Digger with Jamie Foxx when he played Ray Charles… remember that?  Great performance.   Also, as of this recording, West was suspended from Twitter and Instagram for antisemitic comments.  To have bipolar disorder and be in the public eye seems beyond difficult.  We are all responsible for our actions until it is deemed that we cannot be responsible for our actions.  And then what?  We get institutionalized?  Is Kanye West a genius artist or insane or both?  And how do we deal with free speech when people with behavioral and mental health disorders and conditions?  In a democracy, does the majority ignore radical views until they go away naturally?  One would hope and think so, but today so many people have this social megaphone and to get heard above all the noise we are reverting to more radical statements to be heard, to get attention.   Why do I feel like I'm Jerry Springer at the end of an episode?  That show was a perfect example of what I'm talking about. See you next time.   Map: Sanctuary Cities, Counties, and States - CIS.org (Center For Immigration Studies)  Quick Immigration Statistics: Greater Boston -  ilctr.org (Immigration Learning Center) 

Jaeson Jones, Newsmax reporter, and border crime expert Randy Clark, Breitbart border reporter Todd Bensman, Center for Immigration Studies Dale Wilcox, chief executive officer for Immigration Reform Law InstituteSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mark Krikorian joins JT to discuss Immigrants being sent to Martha Vineyard and Will Blue Vote Blue and Red Vote Red in November?

Bo Snerdley chats with Center for Immigration Studies Senior National Security Fellow Todd Bensman regarding Hatian immigration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bo Snerdley chats with Center for Immigration Studies Senior National Security Fellow Todd Bensman regarding Hatian immigration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Center for Immigration Studies Senior National Security Fellow Todd Bensman breaks down the crisis at the border. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Center for Immigration Studies Senior National Security Fellow Todd Bensman breaks down the crisis at the border. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Center for Immigration Studies Fellow Michael Cutler weighs in on the current crisis at the southern border. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jessica Vaughan from the Center for Immigration Studies joins the show to breakdown the crisis that continues to plague our southern border. Then Lori Lightfoot gets called out for her terrible policies in Chicago.

In earlier periods of our history, when we were settling the land and industrializing, mass immigration had real costs, but they were outweighed by the benefits. It's the opposite today – mass immigration today still has upsides, but the downsides are piling up. It's not that today's immigrants themselves are the problem – they're not all that different from those of the past. But we are different. We have a post-industrial, knowledge-based economy, a large welfare state, globalized travel and communications, and a post-patriotic leadership class. Some of these features of modern society are good, others bad. But they add up to a general problem that can be summed up in one sentence: Modern America has outgrown mass immigration. Mark Krikorian, a nationally recognized expert on immigration issues, has served as Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) since 1995. The Center, an independent, non-partisan research organization in Washington, D.C., examines and critiques the impact of immigration on the United States. Animated by a pro-immigrant, low-immigration vision which seeks fewer immigrants but a warmer welcome for those admitted, the Center was established in 1985 to respond to the need for reliable, fact-based research in the immigration area. For additional resources, event details and full speaker bio visit: Point/Counterpoint is a two-part series offered by the Akron Roundtable in which speakers help create a public dialogue around important topics. These luncheons will occur in subsequent months, with a different viewpoint being explored on the same topic each month. The goal of these luncheons is to help people learn from each other, foster civil discourse, and build relationships.

Today on the James Golden aka Bo Snerdley Show: Bo knows politics and how to prevent a border crisis! James's new Immigration correspondent Todd Bensman of the Center For Immigration Studies gives us the details, and we check in with the Princess Of Policy - Diana Mee.

Townhall Review - October 23, 2021 Hugh Hewitt talks with Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton and New York Times White House correspondent Michael Shear about U.S. complacency towards China as they continue on a path of power that threatens the world around us. Bob Frantz and Mark Kirkorian, of the Center for Immigration Studies, talk about the immigration crisis on our southern border. Hugh Hewitt talks with football legend Hershel Walker about his run for the U.S. Senate representing the State of Georgia. Charlie Kirk talks about former New York Times reporter Bari Weiss and her recent television appearance where she once again exposes the demons of the left. Mike Gallagher looks at the shocking reactions to the news that Salem Radio host Dennis Prager had contracted Covid and is now recovering. Sebastian Gorka talks with Dean Cain, aka Superman, about DC Comics' decision to remove the words “American way,” from the Superman motto. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mark Krikorian, Executive Director for the Center For Immigration Studies, joins Seth in studio to talk about the crisis at the border. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Todd Bensman, Senior National Security Fellow at The Center For Immigration Studies joins A&G for his first-person take on the overwhelming immigration crisis taking place in Del Rio Texas Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Mark Krikorian, Director of the Center For Immigration Studies, on his latest piece in National Review regarding the border, "How much worse can it get?" See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Spencer:Today on Understanding Immigration the American refugee program all right welcome back to another episode of FAIR’s Understanding Immigration podcasts this is Spencer Raley FAIR’s director of research and today I’m joined by Madison McQueen from my research team and Preston Huennekens from our lobbying department now on May 3rd President Biden announced a massive increase in the refugee cap this despite the fact that millions of Americans continue to go unemployed and struggle to care for their own families due to the ongoing economic impact of covid 19. also this decision was not based on the advice of his experts or particular driving need or a new war humanitarian issue overseas rather it was simply another situation where the administration caved to excessive external pressure from the open borders lobby over the past decade the refugee cap has ranged from anywhere from fifteen thousand all the way up to eighty five thousand in the past it's grown to as much as two hundred and forty thousand obviously all of these drastic changes can lead to confusion for the American people what goes into the decisions that drive the refugee cap up or down what's the ideal number how does our program compare to other programs around the world these are all questions that we hope to address in this episode so Preston I want to start with you tell us more about the recent change to the refugee cap and why the bite administration suddenly changed their mind and how did they arrive to this particular number? Preston: Right so most of Biden’s immigration moves can be characterized essentially as doing the exact opposite of what former President Trump did regardless of the effects or consequences and their decision to change the refugee ceiling is no different it's important to remember that resettlement as it's applied today is not really a life-saving last resort for refugees we know I think this has been shown in year after year of data from the UN that about 80% of them are in normal circumstances they're not people who are truly fleeing for their lives in many respects they look a lot like people coming from south of our border and applying for asylum they're people who the situation at home is not great but it's not the worst thing in the world the government hasn't collapsed as you mentioned there's no there aren't really any global wars occurring right now and so this goes back to the Trump administration where the Trump administration took this information from their experts they had looked at it and they said our current ceiling does not need to be as high as it is for what we are doing and so they set it at 15,000 which I believe was still the highest really of any developed country that was accepting refugees at the time and naturally opponents of President Trump lost their minds they said this was a dereliction of our duty as one of the strongest countries in the world as a country that has traditionally had a very robust refugee program but again even with this 15,000 number we were still taking in generally more refugees than most other developed countries and so now Biden comes into office on January 20th 2021 and he doesn't touch the refugee number for a while and then he had substantial pressure from his allies in congress from the media from universities and from the non-profit advocacy sector that really supported his presidency supported his campaign he had enormous pressure from them to raise the ceiling from the Trump level of 15,000 to something else and so it's also important to remember not only are these outside allies and these outside groups pressuring him to raise the number but members of his own staff are who by and large are significantly more to the left of him on the immigration issue remember these are all people that campaigned for him by and large they come from a different generation of democratic politics than he does despite working for him and so there's a lot of internal pressure as well for him to raise this cap and so incredibly he actually announces on May 3rd that no he actually isn't going to raise the cap he's just going to keep it at the Trump level and he kind of dusted his hands off and moved on and then everyone in democratic politics completely lost their mind when he said this and so next thing you know you have his allies in congress that are blasting him and essentially suggesting that Joe Biden President Joe Biden is continuing and fulfilling Donald Trump's immigration policies which god forbid of course he couldn't do that so he's the democratic president he can't do that so even the Trump policies that have worked have to be overturned in his eyes and so within a few hours Joe Biden’s white house has released a statement clarifying that they're going to raise it to over 62,000 people and it really was a remarkable episode and it really just illustrates how beholden Biden is to these groups and to these to the universities to members of the mainstream media to a lot of these immigration nonprofit organizations that he has drawn from for staff and things of that nature and so it really just kind of illustrated that Joe Biden might not necessarily be in charge when it comes to setting refugee policy even though it is largely up to him as the president of the United States to do that. Spencer: I think what's so troubling to me is that like you mentioned this was not based on the advice of experts it was literally based on orange man bad theory he announced that the data suggested Trump's policies were indeed what was best for America at this time that's what his experts told him that's what they reviewed and decided hey this should stay as it is and then reverse course simply because the anti-Trump crowd howled about it just because Trump did something doesn't necessarily mean that it's the best course of action but when the entirety of your public policy approach is let's see what Trump didn't automatically assume it was wrong and do the opposite no matter what the science says no matter what the data says no matter what experts say it's ultimately going to end up a recipe for disaster and like you mentioned so many in this country like to suggest that it's inhumane that we don't accept more refugees and we've heard that all throughout the Trump administration we heard that throughout the Obama administration some have gone so far as to say there should be no cap we should just take as many as we can fly into the country and these individuals often point to other countries as an example of how the United States could do better so Madison maybe detail a little bit how does our refugee program compare to other countries especially other westernized countries? Madison: Well historically the U.S. has led the world in terms of formal refugee resettlement we accept more refugees annually than any other country and we have one of the most generous programs in the western world in 2016 the U.S. accepted 96,900 refugees and in fact the U.S. was listed as the top resettlement submission and destination country for 2017, 2018 and 2019 all will underneath these Trump lower caps the U.S. admitted over 29,000 individuals into the country in 2019 and according to the UN refugee agency there was 21,159 refugee submissions to United States comparatively there were only 9,031 refugee departures for Canada and 5,774 departures for the United Kingdom so even with President Trump's lower caps the United States still accepts more refugees than any other country for 2020 the U.S. government assisted refugee resettlement targets were 18,000 which was lower than obviously our 96,000 for 2016 but that still was far higher than for example Canada whose cap was just over 10,000. now of course covid affected these numbers not only for the U.S. but for other countries and so for 2020 our refugee acceptance was about 11,814 for that year beyond accepting refugees for resettlement the U.S. also grants humanitarian protection through various other means we had 46,508 individuals that were granted asylum in 2019 which was a 34% increase from the previous year whereas for the same year the UK granted asylum to just over 11,000 individuals not only do we have the asylum programs but the U.S. also offers temporary protected status known as TPS two countries facing ongoing armed conflict environmental disasters such as earthquake or hurricanes epidemic or any other extraordinary and temporary conditions TPS is a temporary deferral of removal due to these circumstances in a person's or demographic's home country and currently there are 12 countries who have TPS designation Biden just instituted TPS sector Biden just instituted a TPS designation for Venezuela so now there's about 300,000 Venezuelan nationals currently residing in the United States who are going to receive temporary legal status and work permits through this TPS program another program offered by the U.S. as humanitarian aid is our unaccompanied alien children resettlement program which places unaccompanied alien children or UACs into the custody of the office of refugee resettlement once in custody these children are put into contact with their parents or guardians or other relatives in the U.S. and the program begins the process of finding suitable sponsors often these sponsors are a parent or close family relative already in the U.S. and until a sponsor is found the children are provided care and wraparound services in one of the 170 facilities across the United States in addition to these programs the United States also has a visa category designed to help victims of abuse called the U visa and the U visa is a non-immigrant visa program is open to victims of certain criminal activities that happen inside the U.S. such as domestic violence and these incidents that cause substantial physical or mental abuse this visa is valid for four years with extensions in specific circumstances and not only does it help to bring domestic abuse out of the shadows but it also helps build trust with law enforcement agencies congress sets limits for this visa category however sponsored family members are not included in that cap so for 2018 there was a total of 17,915 victims and their sponsored family members who are approved for the U visa so while many people want the U.S. to raise our refugee cap they're ignoring the many other ways that we provide humanitarian protection outside of just the refugee resettlement program and they also ignore the fact that we far exceed the refugee admissions of other countries. Spencer: I think that's really an impressive thing if you think about most countries have a refugee program most of them asylum is rolled into that other humanitarian efforts are rolled into that parole for illegal aliens is rolled into that some have an asylum program in addition to their refugee but you're still talking figures that often range between about 5,000 and maybe for the upper echelon 50,000. but if you just kind of do a back of the envelope write up on how many individuals the United States accept into you into the country on an annual basis for humanitarian purposes you're talking hundreds of thousands and you mentioned TPS is supposed to be a temporary protection from deportation until the situation improves in a home country but I mean anyone who's looked into this knows that hasn't been the case it's been another avenue for resettlement these programs are rubber stamped again and again and again and I think that's a good point to bring up as well because refugee status asylee asylum status asylum is often turns into something that's a little more permanent at least until the host country can have a regime change or something that makes it safe for the individual to go home but initially refuge the refugee program was not intended to be permanent resettlement but it's become that that option has been given and it's used for another form of permanent resettlement so again I think it's an extremely unfair accusation to make to suggest that the United States is not pulling our weight on an international scale to help take care of individuals who are victims of unfortunate circumstance instead the ultimate goal of these advocacy groups these open borders proponents is to just import more cheap labor into the United States and to try to change the social fabric of the United States to something that is more favorable to their goals and that again is extremely troubling especially when you're considering the fact that the United States is not only continuing to recover from the economic impacts of covid19 but is also spending a tremendous amount of taxpayer dollars on helping mitigate that economic impact the unemployment rate just came out as 6.1 percent and that was a slower than expected recovery but that number as we all know is misleading it's been slow slower than expected improvement but it is estimated that more than 20 percent of individuals who work in the lower tier lower income jobs are still without a job and that's after over 40 percent of them lost their jobs due to covid 19. and FAIR has found in some of our previous analysis that almost all refugees work in low-income jobs in fact the annual wage for a new refugee in the United States averages out to only about 12 dollars an hour so those that do find work are taking that work from this pool of low income opportunity which there are millions of Americans looking for right now and we've also found that the taxpayer cost is significant as well up to eighty thousand dollars per refugee over their first five years in the country or roughly 16,000 per year and again this is all occurring this refugee cap is being increased three-four-fold during a time when we're literally passing trillion dollar relief bills for covid 19 and now we're adding these bills that are 16,000 per person for an additional perhaps 50,000 refugees onto the back of American taxpayers who are struggling to put food on their family's plates due to covid 19. it's an almost immoral issue if you think about it kind of runs against the kind of common sense idea that the United States is first and foremost responsible to making sure that their own citizens are taken care of and able to put food on their family's plates and have a place to sleep at night versus those from other countries and again it might be a good discussion to have if the United States wasn't doing that already but we are to the tune of hundreds of thousands of individuals a year so Preston we've now seen what our program looks like right now how it's looked in the past as well as how it compares to other countries and how it far exceeds what other countries are doing but what should our refugee program look like today who should it include how can we ensure that those who are entering the country are not problematic individuals and should we be taking in so many refugees during a time when American citizens like I mentioned are struggling to get back on their feet? Preston: So I think this is one of the more interesting debates to have regarding the refugee program is one what does it look like and two who should it benefit I think we need a radical restructuring of the way that the United States deals with refugees by and large there has not been a refugee crisis in the Americas so that includes north and south America and central America in a very long time I think we all know where some of the more recent refugee crises have come from it's been the Middle East it's been Africa and to an extent Asia and so there is this idea that we are somehow helping by bringing people thousands of miles away to the United States instead of resettling them somewhere closer to home where more people could be helped someone who has talked about this to a great deal and I’m actually about to take his analogy that he's used is Mark Krikorian from the Center for Immigration Studies and he has used the analogy of there's a group of people who are drowning in the ocean and you come up you come across them what makes more sense do you give all of them a life raft which keeps them afloat they're not going to drown they're not going to die or do you give one of them the keys to the boat that you are on and leave everyone else to kind of fend for themselves in the water because that's essentially how our current refugee resettlement program works is that instead of helping I think the number is about 11 or 12 people in their region by providing food aid by providing money to the countries that do take them in that kind of thing instead of doing that and helping more people overall what we're currently doing is giving a golden ticket to one of those people and bringing them to United States resettling them in the United States and that's all good and noble but in terms of actually helping people helping people that are going through the collapse of a state government who are going who have faced genocide these kinds of things that we associate with refugees it doesn't really do anything you're helping a very small number of people and so I think when I say we need to look at how we evaluate refugees in these countries in our country what I think we need to do is really use resettlement as an absolute last resort the resources that our country spends on refugee resettlement could go so far and help so many more people if it was directed in terms of food aid monetary aid maybe the resources of the U.S. military stationed overseas the way that the national guard works domestically helping in events like that I think that goes a lot longer to help more people than just bringing a handful of people over to the United States whether the number is 15,000 or whether it's 62,000 it still doesn't matter because there's still millions of people who if they had the choice would come to the U.S. in a second so I think that's really the number one thing is we need to look at not I think the number is very arbitrary and that's kind of where a lot of our modern politics says oh Trump lowered it to 15,000 and Biden’s taking it to 62,000. that's not the issue the issue I think is the amount of aid that we can give to local governments overseas to help them either resettle people or deal with a surge of people kind of like the European union did with Turkey following the civil war in Syria it would it would have I think that is really where the conversation should go instead of just arguing about numbers and where they should be resettled in the U.S. and things like that. Spencer:Right and I think that's a that's a really good point in fact we did some analysis on that a few years ago and found that in most situations it's 90 percent cheaper and much more effective to care for refugees and what we typically found was the first safe country they could arrive at versus importing them to the United States the other thing we found is that when you do that you can help a more diverse group of people right now those coming United States are those who are wealthy enough to get here now in the United States those might not particularly be wealthy individuals but in their home countries these are the individuals who should be able to go back to their country and help solve some of the issues that they're facing instead of simply leaving and resettling elsewhere so what we found is that if you create agreements or create incentives for some of these neighboring countries to take in refugees individuals that speak the language and could contribute right away to the economies of the neighboring countries it's better for the refugees they're not being transplanted to a place they have no clue about they haven't been to before they can't speak the language etc it's better for American taxpayers because we don't immediately put them on welfare rolls which is typically the case when they come to the United States in fact there's a governmental program that connects new refugees to welfare programs now interestingly there's not one that connects them to jobs but there is one that connects them to welfare programs so it's better for us in terms of our pocketbook and again it's better for the situations in those countries because more people can be taken care of they're closer to home so that they can go back and help improve the situation at home or once the situation improves they have more incentive to return and contribute to their own country to their own culture now just to be frankly honest like you mentioned everything we do is not even a drop in the bucket it's not really making an impact on a global stage at this point the refugee program we have is nothing more than a self-righteous pat on our own back on the international scale because we're doing very little to help improve the situation those countries to help the governments get back on their feet to improve the situation we're offering no incentive to those host countries to end whatever corrupt behaviors they may be partaking in to cause a refugee exodus and instead what we end up doing is we just decide what's a number we should bring into the United States we do that we celebrate say that we did something good and then go on to ignore the root problems and I think that's really unfortunate and something that we of course need to rectify and try to think about this topic on a more global scale how we can actually have a positive long-term impact. Preston: And Spencer that even comes to another point that you just reminded me of is addressing the role of the refugee resettlement agencies in the United States I’m not sure our listeners or even the average person is aware of how much our government actually kind of delegates the task of settling these people in the U.S. to outside groups whether they are religious organizations or immigrant advocacy groups there are there's a forget the exact number but there's an exact number registered with the state department who essentially bid on government contracts to resettle people so for them it's actually extremely profitable to keep the numbers high because for each refugee they settle they're essentially getting a check from the government and that is that is very problematic when you have essentially and to be frank I’m surprised that democrats for as much as they hate privatization of government services I’m shocked that they have gone along with this instead of allowing the federal government or some arm of the state department to do this and it's created a lot of issues there's a lot of states that have said we do not want refugees resettled here they get into lawsuits with these groups and then next thing you know the federal government is stepping in on behalf of these organizations and it's just a nightmare because you bring these people here and then if a city votes in a referendum and says we do not want these people here who is the this random NGO to tell them well tough luck because we have a contract from the state department and that's pretty much how it works right now and I think that's another thing that we have to look into is why are we allowing pretty much private organizations to determine where refugees are going against in many cases the will of the people in those localities. Spencer: That's a really good point and I think something that we should bring up is that these localities are not necessarily rejecting refugees because oh we hate foreigners as is often accused but we found that there are a number of you're talking small cities 10, 20, 30,000 people who because of refugee resettlement from the federal government from these organizations that you talk about that are supposedly non-profits but make a great profit off of resettling refugees are resettling them in these in these small jurisdictions and it has a massive impact on city planning on school systems on tax programs in fact we found that some of these school systems have as many as 12 different languages now spoken by students in their schools and that's extremely difficult it puts a lot of stress on teachers or in worst case scenarios you're seeing these schools firing English-speaking teachers in order to bring in bilingual teachers or to import teachers from somewhere else that can speak the language of these refugees and what ends up happening is you have fewer English speaking teachers that are addressing the needs of citizens and more individuals that are being forced to they're forcing that budget to these refugee programs and again they had no way of planning for it they get very little notice sometimes it's not even a month that hey there are 300 refugees are going to be resettled in your city tough luck deal with it and it's just not fair I know that a lot of these jurisdictions we've heard from a lot of these cities they've said hey we'd be happy to help out if you let us plan this let us know that hey next year two years three years from now we're hoping to resettle a few refugees in your in your city and they're happy to help or they can say we've already got a large population that speaks a particular language so we can resettle those refugees into our jurisdictions and be able to help them right away but at this point so far the federal government's just like yeah no tough luck we're going to give you whatever we feel like giving you we're going to resettle whoever we want to resettle there and you have to deal with it impressive like you mentioned these organizations it's nothing but a profit machine to them and I don't think it should come as a surprise to anyone that most of the groups that just hounded the Biden administration and attacked the Biden administration for keeping their refugee resettlement numbers low were the groups that stand to make millions upon millions of dollars thanks to this cap being increased so again it comes down to a situation where it's not that experts said that this should happen that it would make the world a better place if we increase the refugee cap it's more that hey our donors are saying they want to increase the refugee cap and they want more money and so they're going to hound us about it and we're just going to cave into what they want. Preston: Yeah I mean when you're getting paid when you're getting a check from the federal government for every refugee that you resettle you obviously have an incentive to resettle as many refugees as you can and I think that speaks to how broken the current system is the current system out it obviously I have and I said earlier I think a perfect system would be that we allocate a lot of instead of paying these groups in the U.S. to do this and helping only a handful of people essentially we should be using that money to help significantly more people closer to where the crisis is or closer to where the issues are actually occurring because right now it's what we're doing right now is just silly and like you said it's more just to pat ourselves on the back and claim that we have some sort of moral high ground even when if you really look into the issue we don't. Spencer: Right it's nothing but a self-righteous endeavor that just so happens to transfer money from the federal government to an ally’s pocket and unfortunately while that whole corrupt system is going on there are millions of individuals all around the world who are suffering that we could be helping and that's really a tragic thing. Madison: I think you guys hit the nail on the head it definitely is one of those self-righteous pat on the back it's a vested interest for these companies and organizations who are getting paid to resettle refugees and it's honestly virtue signaling they're saying oh hey look at us we resettle all these people look at how righteous we are how much better we are than all of you but it's not about caring for the person it's not about wanting to set these people up for success and it makes a lot of sense of what we're seeing with the crisis currently as well as just come in illegally come in as a refugee we'll help the some people that we can we'll give you a little bit of money put you on welfare so we can get your vote or get more checks it's all about a vested interest of when it comes down to money rather than hey let's make sure that these people are being taken care of that these people are set up for success and like you both were talking about we can help way more people if we were to reframe how we address the refugee resettlement program how we're meant to re if we readdress how we're meant to see the refugee crisis around the world is it really about helping people and if that's the case let's find a better way to do so by having people resettle in countries that are closer providing that aid in money water monetary funds whatever it may be rather than hey come to the U.S. so it makes us look good. Spencer: Exactly and I think that's a good point as well we're not setting these individuals that we do bring into the United States up for success as we mentioned earlier a large number of these a very large number of these individuals end up being on welfare long term meaning greater than five years most of them make very little money in fact we found in that five-year period most of them went from earning an average of twelve dollars an hour up to maybe close to thirteen after five years that's not much of a pay increase we've also found that children who enter the United States via the refugee program typically perform below average in school for the duration of their public school experience so it's really a tragic situation where individuals are being brought in the United States but they aren't being given the tools they need to succeed so we're spending billions of dollars on this program every year we're making organizations rich to resettle them but we're really not doing anything to solve this conflict on a global scale we're not doing anything to set up those that come to the United States for success and overall that's just kind of a tragic thing and that may be kind of a tragic note to end on but that's all the time we have for today so we hope that you've enjoyed today's episode and perhaps learned something new as a reminder we'll be releasing a new episode every other Monday now for any of our new listeners out there check out our series on your favorite platform such as Google Apple and Spotify to see what other topics we've been discussing that may interest you in fact we have more than 30 episodes uploaded right now that cover important topics that impact your daily life like remittances DACA gang violence and many other issues that you can easily find from our podcast pages we hope that each and every one of you continue to stay safe and sound and until next time this has been Understanding Immigration presented by FAIR. 

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