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Chip Roy Blames ‘Expansionist’ Legal Immigration For Rise In Islamism

May 14, 2026/in Anti-Semitism, Criminal Illegal Aliens, Culture War, Hot Topics, Immigration, Islam, Must Read, National Security, News, Policy, Radical Islamic Terrorism, Terrorism, Violence/by The Daily Caller

Republican Texas Rep. Chip Roy attributed the skyrocketing rise of Islamism around the world to “expansionist” legal immigration policies during a Wednesday hearing on Capitol Hill.

Roy laid out Islam’s growing foothold across the globe, including his home state of Texas, which has seen a surge in Muslim immigration and Islamic communities. But rather than simply blaming illegal immigration, Roy said legal migration is also a major part of the problem.

“Over the past few years, Shariah-based legal institutions have taken root in American communities, and nowhere is this problem worse than in my home state of Texas,” Roy said during the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitution and Limited Government hearing.

“Fueled by decades of an unsecured border and expansionist legal immigration policies, Texas has seen a sharp increase in immigration from the Muslim world,” Roy added.

Roy pointed to various cases of rising Islamic influence across the world, particularly in Europe.

In France, 44% of Muslims believe that Islamic law takes precedent over French law, which is a 16% increase from 1995, according to a 2025 poll. Muhammad has also become the most popular baby name in the United Kingdom for several years, and in Germany, it has become the most popular baby name among people receiving welfare.

In Texas alone, an estimated 650 Muslim nonprofits have been established as of 2026. The Islamic community has become so established in the Lone Star State that the East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC) has developed its own 400-acre residential community exclusively for Muslims. EPIC City plans to build over 1,000 single and multi-family homes and introduce Islamic schooling, sparking controversy among Texans.

“People do not have protection from imposing a foreign legal system or code that overrides or replaces U.S. civil or criminal law, nor the Constitution,” Roy said. “The Constitution begins with ‘ We the people.’”

“The radicals pushing political Islam do not want to coexist with America’s culture and political order,” Roy said. “They want to replace it.”

Mark Krikorian, the executive director at Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) made a similar argument about Islam’s incompatibility with western societies, saying immigrants “should be grilled” on their values before being granted citizenship.

“Our legal immigration system should not pick and choose among religions or ethnic groups — but it *should* seek to screen out potential immigrants whose views are incompatible with our society,” Krikorian wrote in a statement to the Daily Caller. “That kind of ‘cultural vetting’ would take the form of, for instance, checking social media for sentiments that are antithetical to our values, not just about terrorism or politics, but also things like support for FGM or polygamy or punishment of apostates or killing gays.”

“Potential immigrants could also be grilled by US consular officials abroad about their views on such things,” Krikorian added. “And candidates for citizenship should be grilled on these questions again before being allowed to become citizens. Nothing’s perfect, and we have plenty of our own native-born cretins, but no one who holds such backward views should be allowed to move here or become a citizen.”

Roy is just one of many Republicans who have embraced criticism of immigration more broadly, not just from a law enforcement perspective. Elizabeth Jacobs, the director of regulatory affairs and policy for CIS, said that other qualities like assimilation and ideology are increasingly being prioritized in the conversation surrounding immigration.

“Congressman Roy’s remarks reflect a shift within parts of the GOP away from focusing exclusively on border security and illegal immigration towards greater scrutiny of the scale and long term consequences of mass legal immigration,” Jacobs told the Caller.
“Increasingly, some Republicans are arguing that policymakers should also consider issues related to assimilation, national security, and whether current immigration levels are consistent with the country’s overall capacity to integrate new immigrants. The greater the number of new arrivals, the more difficult it becomes to ensure both economic and social cohesion.”

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June 27, 2020/in Culture War, Healthcare, Immigration, National Security, Policy, Politics, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Ann Corcoran

Todd Bensman, writing at the Center for Immigration Studies, thinks that is possible.

Mounting Evidence Points to Covid Refugees from Mexico as a Major Factor in Border-State Spikes

Evidence continues to mount that spikes in Covid cases in U.S. border states are due to successive waves of infected people fleeing Mexico’s dysfunctional and overwhelmed hospitals to get American medical care at least as much, if not more than, to the re-opening of those states’ economies.

This matters because officials in border states are beginning to base policy decisions for partial lock-downs on grounds that lifting them is what caused the spikes.

Although the states and hospitals do not release nationality or immigration status information, several Border Patrol agents told the Center for Immigration Studies that, per policy, they have been transporting to U.S. care facilities increasing numbers of illegal Central American border-crossers they apprehend who report Covid-like symptoms, as well as Cubans, Venezuelans, Ecuadorans, and other nationalities.

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s media relations office was not able confirm the extent to which that was happening, but did release the following statement regarding Border Patrol hospital runs such as those the agents described.

“CBP has longstanding procedures in place to ensure that the individuals we encounter are able to receive treatment from local health authorities or other medical professionals. All persons in CBP custody who meet the Center for Disease Control’s Covid-19 travel history and enhanced screening guidelines are being referred to the CDC or local health officials for additional screening. CBP takes all necessary precautions to ensure that no communicable diseases are spread across populations in custody.”

Earlier, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal all reported a crush of infected people from Mexico coming over the Arizona and California borders, although the publications say all appear to be American expatriates, dual citizenship holders, and Mexican legal permanent residents.

States appear to be transporting many to interior facilities to keep bed space free on the border as the influx continues, adding to the impression that these imported patients were infected inside the United States due to lifting lock-downs rather than in Mexico, where few social distancing measures were implemented.

The Times and now Reuters have reported that California, for instance, has been airlifting Covid patients from “saturated” border clinics to hospitals in the state’s interior.

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Obama’s Illegal Aliens Disguised as Refugees

May 2, 2016/in Featured, Immigration, Policy, Politics, Taxes/by Ann Corcoran

Below is the press release from the Center for Immigration Studies this morning. In fact this effort to expand the definition of who is a refugee is going on world wide as so-called ‘Unaccompanied Alien Children’ (largely teenage boys) are also flooding into Europe. It is not a coincidence!

Unaccompanied Alien Children arrive at U.S. border in 2014.

For nearly 9 years I’ve watched the definition of the word ‘refugee’ be stretched like a rubber band until now most in the media think that anyone on the move for any reason is a refugee!

But, that is exactly what the No-Borders gang is pushing for. When you read this remember that a legitimate refugee must prove that he/she has been persecuted for one of several reasons (such as race, religion, political persuasion).

Someone running from crime and wanting a better life does NOT a refugee make!

WASHINGTON, DC (May 2, 2016) — The Center for Immigration Studies has released a new report, “Welcoming Unaccompanied Alien Children to the United States”, analyzing the Obama administration’s persistent efforts to relocate the children of Central American illegal aliens to the United States. The report is online at http://cis.org/Welcoming-Unaccompanied-Alien-Children-to-the-United-States.

When the illegal flow of mostly teen-age boys from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador across the border reached record levels in 2014, the administration at first tried to arrange for them to stay by presenting them as victims of trafficking. But for the immigration benefits of being trafficked to apply, there must be coercion and exploitation; this was not the case.

Next, the administration established the Central American Minors Refugee/Parole Program, to fly the young people directly to the United States. But this program requires that the family members to whom the children are delivered have some form of legal status in the U.S. Because the majority of the minors’ family members in the U.S. are illegal immigrants, the program has not been widely used.

Thus the latest initiative: a new “family reunification program” specifically designed for illegal aliens and their children. In collaboration with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the administration is planning to enable illegal aliens to have their children brought to them in the U.S., with the minors labelled as “refugees.” However, by the UN’s own admission most of these children do not qualify as refugees.

The cost to American taxpayers of reuniting illegal aliens with the children they left behind is substantial. The FY 2017 budget request for the Unaccompanied Children (UC) program totals $1.321 billion, making the cost for one UAC likely to be more than $17,000. This is more than double the cost per UAC in 2010.

Nayla Rush, a senior researcher at the Center and author of the report, writes: “We can empathize with children wishing to reunite with family members who make it to the United States before them. … We can also, however, question this administration’s policies and motives and wonder if it is in the best interest of the American people to welcome these children here. … We might even call this program what it really is: a family reunification program specially crafted for illegal aliens and their children under the cover of refugee resettlement.”

(Emphasis mine)