Immigration & Border Security
Securing the border, enforcing the law, and restoring integrity to the immigration system.
Advancing American Freedom on Immigration & Border Security: 11 policy memos, 6 op-eds, 6 press releases, 1 legal filing.
Featured research
- The DSA Plan to Abolish ICE, Hans von Spakovsky, September 28, 2026
- DSA’s Push for Alien Voting Rights, Hans von Spakovsky, September 28, 2026. The DSA promise to extend full voting rights to aliens would disenfranchise American citizens. The Constitution protects the life, liberty and property of our people.
AAF experts on Immigration & Border Security
Policy memos on Immigration & Border Security
- The DSA Plan to Abolish ICE (September 28, 2026)
- DSA’s Push for Alien Voting Rights (September 28, 2026). The DSA promise to extend full voting rights to aliens would disenfranchise American citizens. The Constitution protects the life, liberty and property of our people.
- No Federal Agency has Authority to Interfere with State Qualifications for Elections—Supreme Court Should Uphold Citizenship and Information Verification Requirements (September 23, 2026). Under the Qualifications Clauses of the U.S. Constitution, states determine who is eligible to vote in federal elections.
- Federal Policy Responses to the Supreme Court's Birthright Citizenship Decision (August 25, 2026). The Supreme Court's decision in Trump v. Barbara misinterprets the Fourteenth Amendment, preserving an ahistorical and increasingly problematic status quo on birthright citizenship. It should be constitutionally or jurisprudentially undone.
- Stopping Benefits for Illegal Immigrants (April 11, 2026)
- AAF: Debt, Border, and China Hawks Should Support Ukraine Aid (September 3, 2024). Most Americans support Ukraine against Russia’s invasion, but the Right is split on whether the U.S. should continue to provide lethal aid to Ukraine amidst the Biden-Harris Administration’s domestic disasters.
- AAF: Kamala Harris’ Border Czar Record (August 7, 2024). On March 24, 2021, President Biden announced Vice President Kamala Harris as the Biden Administration’s “Border Czar.” Despite media gaslighting, this really did happen.
- AAF: Calling Balls and Strikes on the RNC Platform (July 10, 2024). July 9, 2024 AAF: Calling Balls and Strikes on the RNC Platform GOOD: Calls for making the Trump-Pence Tax Cuts permanent, unleashing American energy, securing the border, and ending overregulation.
- AAF: Biden’s Border Disaster (May 21, 2024). AAF: Biden’s Border Disaster Biden’s Border Crisis: Over 7.8 million illegal aliens crossed our border since Biden took office – this is greater than the populations of 38 U.S. states.
- Debunking Strawmen Arguments for Wyden-Smith (January 26, 2024). Debunking Strawmen Arguments for Wyden-Smith Yes – Illegal Immigrants Receive the Child Tax Credit. They Should Not • The Child Tax Credit (CTC) has always had an illegal immigrant problem.
- Reality at the Southern Border: A Crisis of Our Own Making (September 29, 2023)
Op-eds and commentary
- The New Fraud Turning Staged Crimes Into Paths To Citizenship, Hans von Spakovsky, Amy Swearer, The Daily Wire (October 28, 2026)
- DOJ’s Civil Division backstabs Trump in his fight to keep aliens from voting, Hans von Spakovsky, Washington Examiner (September 22, 2026)
- A federal judge just made it harder to catch illegal immigrants voting, Hans von Spakovsky, Washington Examiner (July 16, 2026)
- The Supremes Help Ensure Border Security to the Dismay of Liberal Justices, Hans von Spakovsky, PJ Media (June 27, 2026)
- President Trump's birthright citizenship fight is about history, not hysteria, Amy Swearer, Fox News (April 13, 2026)
- The Supreme Court Takes Up a Vital, Slam-Dunk Immigration Case, Hans von Spakovsky, National Review (March 24, 2026)
Press releases
Legal filings and amicus briefs
