Date: June 30, 2025
Host: Jim Schneider
Guest: Andrew Arthur
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Andrew Arthur is Resident Fellow in Law and Policy for the Center for Immigration Studies. He began his legal career through the Attorney General’s Honors Program as a clerk to an Administrative Law Judge in the Office of the Chief Administrative Hearing Officer at the United States Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review. Later in his career he was promoted to the Immigration and Naturalization Service General Counsel’s Office in D.C. first as an Associate General Counsel, then as an Assistant General Counsel and Acting Chief of the INS National Security Law Division. In the General Counsel’s Office, he supervised attorneys handling cases involving espionage, terrorism, and persecutors. He advised the attorney general among others on matters pertaining to national security. In 2001, he left INS to become a counsel on the House Judiciary Committee where he performed oversight of immigration issues. After 5 years there, he was appointed to the immigration bench serving for eight years as an Immigration Judge at the York Immigration Court in York, Pennsylvania. At the beginning of the 114th Congress, Judge Arthur left the bench and came back to Capitol Hill, where he served as staff director of the National Security Subcommittee at House Oversight and Government Reform before taking retirement from federal service in 2016. He’s now working with CIS.
It’s amazing that we have public officials who are “linking arms” with those who attack individuals that work for our safety and security. That is the current state of affairs as America’s war on illegal immigration continues. Andrew indicated this has been going on ever since Donald Trump came back into office. He also noted that while we can have differences of opinion with the policies carried out by the executive branch and the governors in each state, at a minimum he believes we should have respect and support for law enforcement; those who put themselves between us and the dangers we face on a daily basis.
According to Andrew, under the Biden administration, 8 million people came into the U.S., yet only a handful were ever vetted. How has the Trump administration been doing in this war thus far? Preliminary estimates from DHS show that about 239,000 individuals here unlawfully (75% of which were criminal aliens) have been arrested and about 207,000 have been removed from the U.S. At the same time, about one million people have self deported.
Keep in mind that while the work is getting done, there are other facets to this war that require great attention as well. For example, there are issues such as birthright citizenship, 3rd country removal orders, the threat of sleeper cells, needed detention space, and much more. So get caught up on this critical issue by reviewing this edition of Crosstalk.
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