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March 28, 2025
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Immigration Benefits the Destination Country
… forest. Finally, the authors explored the effects of immigration on Brazil’s transformation from an agricultural economy and found that immigration did not slow Brazil’s structural transformation—it may have accelerated it. Immigration reduced the agricultural share of Brazil …
By Jeffrey Miron and Jacob Winter
March 14, 2025
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Trump’s New Immigration Ban: An Arbitrary, Discriminatory Legal Immigration Rewrite
trump executive orders This post was updated to reflect new reporting on precisely which countries will be banned. President Trump plans to rewrite—or, rather, write over—the Immigration and Nationality Act in the coming week. This action would be …
By David J. Bier
February 3, 2025
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What Trump Has Done and Imminently Plans to Do on Immigration
immigration President Trump signed several executive orders on his first day in office that relate to immigration. These orders will backfire and result in a more disorderly, dysfunctional, and expensive immigration system. He is diverting America’s military and all …
By David J. Bier
January 23, 2025
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Who Loses from Immigration Restrictions?
A long-standing concern about immigration is that it might reduce job opportunities for native workers: In 1882, the US government passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, which banned laborers born in China from entering the United States and prevented individuals …
By Jeffrey Miron
November 7, 2024
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The Best Political Argument for More Immigration Restrictions Just Failed
… immigration. They are the understandable fear of border and immigration chaos, security concerns, and the untrue belief that the legal immigration system isn’t restrictive. Those concerns all explain much of the sharp move in public opinion toward immigration restrictionism …
By Alex Nowrasteh
October 2, 2024
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JD Vance Is Correct: Immigration Increases Housing Prices, and That’s Okay
Vance is correct that immigrants drive up housing prices. You can decide whether that’s good or bad, but you should accept it as true.
By Alex Nowrasteh
September 20, 2024
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Immigration Isn’t Causing Unemployment
Immigrants are not taking jobs away from Americans or causing the unemployment rate to rise. A decline in immigration would be a bad sign for the labor market. Immigrants come when job opportunities exist.
By David J. Bier
August 22, 2024
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The Mississippi State Auditor’s Report “How Illegal Immigration Hurts Mississippi Taxpayers” Isn’t Serious
The Mississippi state auditor released a report that purports to show that illegal immigrants impose a cost of over $100 million on state taxpayers. Unfortunately, this report is deeply flawed.
By Alex Nowrasteh
July 3, 2024
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What If Every State Had Record Immigration?
Americans should not fear immigrants who come to contribute to this country.
By David J. Bier
May 24, 2024
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America’s Third Founding: May 24, 1924, the Immigration Act of 1924
It was a choice to make immigration illegal. It is a choice to keep it illegal. America should reject its un-American third founding and restore the laws governing immigration to the ones our founders gave us: a presumption of liberty. A century of arbitrary immigration restriction is too long.
By David J. Bier
March 6, 2024
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The Center for Immigration Studies Is Still Wrong About Illegal Immigrant Crime in Texas
Turns out that I was correct all along, and CIS was wrong. CIS overstates the illegal immigrant homicide rate by relying on data that double-counted some illegal immigrant murderers.
By Alex Nowrasteh
February 6, 2024
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Senate Immigration Deal Is a Mixed Bag
The biggest issue is the astounding sums that the bill appropriates outside of the appropriations process to fund fast-tracked deportations and expulsions.
By David J. Bier
January 29, 2024
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Reducing Illegal Immigration
Libertarians believe more legal immigration would benefit the United States, the sending countries, and the immigrants.
By Jeffrey Miron
January 24, 2024
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Apportionment & Immigration: 95 Percent of Noncitizen Growth Went to GOP States Since 2019
Republicans should not fear immigration based on unfounded political concerns.
By David J. Bier
December 5, 2023
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Ending Title 42 Halved Successful Covert Illegal Immigration
Ending Title 42 improved border security and reduced successful illegal entries.
By David J. Bier