Daily Caller: Top Dem Admits That Courts End Up Shooting Down Most Migrants’ Asylum Claims (Jan. 22, 2025)
“After all these years, it was fantastic to hear Rep. Lofgren announce that she supports the detention of all asylum seekers and agrees that most of them are coming for economic opportunity, not because of persecution,” Rosemary Jenks, policy director at Immigration Accountability Project, said in a statement provided to the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Rep. Chip Roy Press Release: Representative Roy reintroduces the Border Safety and Security Act (Jan. 9, 2025)
"The Immigration Accountability Project is proud to endorse Congressman Chip Roy’s Border Safety and Security Act of 2025. This bill would finally put teeth in the law’s requirement that illegal aliens be detained, returned, or denied entry. By giving the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security an explicit mandate to deny entry to illegal aliens who cannot be detained or returned, the bill puts a clear end to the catch-and-release policies that have devastated American communities. Equally important is the bill’s grant of standing to state Attorneys General to sue the Secretary for failure to enforce the law. The 119th Congress should pass this legislation expeditiously." -Rosemary Jenks, Cofounder, Immigration Accountability Project
Tampa Free Press: Florida Rep. Cammack Joins Texas Rep. Chip Roy As Original Co-Sponsor Of “SAVE Act” (Jan. 9, 2025)
Chris Chmielenski, President of the Immigration Accountability Project, emphasized that the act would “dramatically reduce the chances of non-citizens registering and voting.”
FoxNews.com: House, Senate Republicans revive Trump-backed push to crack down on noncitizen voting (Jan. 7, 2025)
The bill also has the support of groups including the Only Citizens Vote Coalition, Tea Party Patriots Action and the Immigration Accountability Project. It has 59 co-sponsors in the House. The bill was introduced in the lower chamber on Friday and is expected to be introduced in the Senate next week.
Breitbart: Border Czar Mayorkas Admits He Could Have Blocked Migration Flood (Dec. 24, 2024)
“They opened the borders because they wanted to flood the country,” responded Rosemary Jenks, the co-founder of the Immigration Accountability Project. But, she added, “I have no evidence that anyone at DHS, including Mayorkas, was [used the migration to] pressuring Republicans in the Senate to do anything until the end of 2023,” said Jenks...
Biz Pac Review: Where’s the outrage? More taxpayer funds wasted on DHS campaign to give legal assistance to illegal immigrants (Oct. 31, 2024)
Rosemary Jenks, the policy director at the Immigration Accountability Project, called the error unforgivable.
“This is one of the most absurd things I’ve seen,” she told the Times. “We have a real problem with importing gangs here. That got a whole lot worse over the last 3½ years. This is a stunning national security failure.”
The Washington Times: 'Stunning security failure': U.S. agents miss Venezuelan gang tattoos in scan for refugee approvals (Oct. 23, 2024)
Rosemary Jenks, policy director at the Immigration Accountability Project and a close observer of USCIS, called the snafu unforgivable.
“This is one of the most absurd things I’ve seen,” she said. “We have a real problem with importing gangs here. That got a whole lot worse over the last 3½ years. This is a stunning national security failure.”
New York Post: DEVINE: Bill Clinton’s health issues, the Laken Riley murder and border lies have the Dems in a mess (Oct. 16, 2024)
A tweet on Jan. 11 from a formidable new nonprofit group, the Immigration Accountability Project (IAP), let the cat out of the bag, saying Lankford’s “border deal would … increase green cards by 50,000/year, [give] immediate work permits to every illegal alien released from custody … taxpayer funded lawyers [and] expulsion authority for a limited number of days ONLY if encounters exceed 5K/day over a seven-day period.”
For a tiny account with about 150 followers on X, that tweet went viral and it became the lead story on Fox News all weekend, with a screen caption that read, “The Bipartisan Sellout of America.”
Daily Caller: 'A Self-Feeding Circle': How A Web Of NGOs Enabled By Biden-Harris Is Fueling The Migrant Crisis (Oct. 1, 2024)
The Biden-Harris administration is attempting to make open borders “a part of the infrastructure,” according to Chris Chmielenski, President of the Immigration Accountability Project.
“And just to be clear, all of these people are technically in the country illegally, because they’ve been paroled by the administration,” he emphasized.
The Daily Signal: Venezuelan Illegal Alien Gang Activity Wreaking Havoc in US (Sept. 13, 2024)
Tren de Aragua is a “Venezuelan prison gang and … they’ve been wreaking havoc throughout South America … since their inception,” according to Chris Chmielenski, president of the Immigration Accountability Project.
The Washington Times: DHS proposes another two-year delay in full Real ID compliance (Sept. 12, 2024)
Rosemary Jenks, policy director at the Immigration Accountability Project, said the Biden administration shouldn’t be granting more grace periods.
“It’s just not that hard to get a Real ID. It’s just not,” Ms. Jenks said. “If you tell people you will not be able to get on a plane or go into a federal government building without a Real ID by X date, then the people who want to go into federal buildings or get on a plane are going to go get a Real ID.”
The Washington Examiner: House hearing witnesses raise alarm over noncitizen voting (Sept. 10, 2024)
Federal law prohibits noncitizens from voting, but another witness during the hearing, the Immigration Accountability Project’s Rosemary Jenks, identified holes in the federal legal system that she said could be exploited by noncitizens or those hoping to register them.
The Rippon Advance: Daines-sponsored bill prohibits parole for aliens flagged as extremists (July 31, 2024)
Numerous entities endorsed the measure, including Heritage Action, the Immigration Accountability Project, the Federation for American Immigration Reform, the America First Policy Institute, and NumbersUSA.
North State Journal: BRUCE: Voting by noncitizens is a real problem (July 19, 2024)
The Immigration Accountability Project notes that in all the Democrats’ proposed amnesty bills, illegal voting is one of the crimes they list that would not prevent an alien from receiving amnesty
The Washington Times: DHS agency plans to forgive up to $60,000 for employees' student loans (June 24, 2024)
Rosemary Jenks, policy director at the Immigration Accountability Project and a longtime observer of USCIS, questioned where the agency will obtain the funds.
“USCIS is a fee-funded agency, so whose money is being diverted to pay off these student loans? Are they skimming even more from the fees legal immigrants are paying, or are they expecting a taxpayer bailout?” she said.
Fox News: Campaign walks back Trump's green card promise (June 23, 2024)
The critique was echoed by Chris Chmielenski, the president of the conservative Immigration Accountability Project, who argued such a plan "would reduce wages for all Americans, increase job competition, particularly for recent college graduates, and pose a national security threat."
New York Post: Conservative border hawks slam Trump's college green card vow for foreign students (June 21, 2024)
“US immigration policy must serve the interests of all Americans, not the interests of elite business leaders who seek cheap labor,” added Chris Chmielenski, the president of the conservative Immigration Accountability Project.
The Trump handout “would reduce wages for all Americans, increase job competition, particularly for recent college graduates, and pose a threat to national security,” he said.
Breitbart: Maine Law Enforcement Officials Report 'Uptick' in Fake Social Security Numbers (June 2, 2024)
Several people took to X to criticize Maine officials for issuing licenses to illegal migrants using fake social security numbers.
The Immigration Accountability Project (IAP) questioned “how corrupt” officials needed to be “to issue a driver’s license to someone who writes 999-99-9999” as a social security number.
Heritage.org: The Heritage Foundation Announces New Innovation Prize for the Immigration Accountability Project (May 20, 2024)
The Immigration Accountability Project (IAP) will receive a $100,000 award to support its aims to keep the immigration issue and the ongoing border crisis on voters' minds through the end of 2024. IAP will create engaging content and use geo-targeted social media ads to educate voters on what their Members of Congress are—or are not—doing to change and improve immigration policy and how those actions impact public safety, education, healthcare, and competition for other public resources.
MSN.com: GOP Urged to Take Border Deal, But Rand Paul Warns It's a 'Sellout' (Jan. 23, 2024)
According to the Immigration Accountability Project, the deal also would include an increase in green cards by 50,000 per year, work permits for every illegal immigrant released from custody, taxpayer-funded lawyers for some illegal immigrants and a slew of other provisions that would do little to staunch the flow of illegal immigration.
Washington Times: Border security negotiators can’t hide from constituents on social media (Jan. 20, 2024)
The Immigration Accountability Project, founded last year by two veterans from NumbersUSA, says it wants to help constituents slip into lawmakers’ feeds with posts demanding a get-tough approach to border security and to arm voters for in-person conversations with lawmakers at grocery stores and town halls.
Newsweek: MAGA Furious at Border Deal Backed by Republican Senators: 'Surrender' (Jan. 15, 2024)
On Saturday, supposed details of a developing Senate border security deal were leaked by the Immigration Accountability Project, a political advocacy group dedicated to stricter border security policies, of the sort typically favored by conservatives. According to an infographic from Fox News that aired on Friday night during The Ingraham Angle, which was circulated by Republicans on Saturday on X, formerly Twitter, the deal would allegedly include setting an allowance of 5,000 migrant crossings per day into the United States, grant work permits to the adult children of H-1B visa holders, and automatically grant work permits to undocumented migrants as soon as they are released from custody.
The Washington Times: Senate border deal would allow 5,000 illegal immigrants a day (Jan. 13, 2024)
Negotiators have tightly guarded plans during their weeks of talks, but Rosemary Jenks, government relations director at the Immigration Accountability Project, said she has been briefed by multiple people familiar with the negotiations and has been sharing details online.
