The metaphor of the popular television shows "CSI: New York," "CSI: Miami," and "CSI: Las Vegas" (CSI stands for "crime scene investigation") is applicable to investigating issues of immigrant children in teacher preparation programs (TPP). One of the fundamental principles of CSI is to solve the crime by critically examining clues as evidence found at the scene or associated with the crime. According to crime statistics, there are two categories of crime (violent and property crime) determined by force or no force against victims. While the author does not think that issues about immigrant children in TPP warrant a category of violent crime--in which there is force or threat of force against victims (the central theme in the CSI shows), she does believe that CSI lends itself to property crimes in which money or property is taken. As such, this article uses the CSI metaphor to investigate five clues involving TPP and immigrant children as a property crime case: instruction, schools, parental involvement, information about immigrant children, and collaboration across the disciplines.