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March 10, 2025
Policy Analysis

No. 991
Terrorism and Immigration
The federal government’s security resources should be allocated to the most efficient means of reducing the costs of terrorism.
By Alex Nowrasteh
October 29, 2024
Policy Analysis

No. 983
Why US Immigration Officials Should Allow “Digital Nomad” Admissions
The lack of clear legal rules leaves officials tasked with making arbitrary decisions to facilitate or prohibit digital nomad admissions.
By Angelo A. Paparelli , David J. Bier, Peter Choi, & Stephen Yale-Loehr
April 9, 2024
Policy Analysis

No. 972
Terrorism and Immigration
Foreign‐born terrorism on US soil is a low‐probability event that poses small risks and low costs on Americans as a whole.
By Alex Nowrasteh
March 26, 2025
Research Briefs in Economic Policy

No. 426
The Effects of Immigration in Brazil
Brazilian municipalities with a higher population share of European immigrants in 1920 had greater farm values.
By David Escamilla-Guerrero, Andrea Papadia, and Ariell Zimran
July 3, 2024
Research Briefs in Economic Policy

No. 390
Immigration Enforcement and Public Safety
Our research studies the Secure Communities program, a federal policy that increased information sharing between local police and federal immigration authorities, thus streamlining the identification of unauthorized immigrants arrested by local police.
By Felipe M. Gonçalves, Emily K. Weisburst, and Elisa Jácome
November 13, 2024
Working Paper

No. 82
Manhattan Institute’s “Lifetime Fiscal Impact of Immigrants” Report Shows Upside to Immigration
The Manhattan Institute developed a fiscal model that assigns all federal government spending to individuals and projects it forward 100 years.
By David J. Bier
August 22, 2023
Policy Analysis

No. 958
Terrorism and Immigration
Any change in immigration policy for terrorism prevention should be subject to a cost-benefit calculation.
By Alex Nowrasteh
September 18, 2023
Briefing Paper

No. 165
Parole Sponsorship Is a Revolution in Immigration Policy
Parole allows someone to enter the United States legally and to receive employment authorization.
By David J. Bier
June 28, 2023
Research Briefs in Economic Policy

No. 338
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Skilled Immigration, Task Allocation, and the Innovation of Firms
By Anna Maria Mayda, Gianluca Orefice, and Gianluca Santoni
March 21, 2023
White Paper

The Fiscal Impact of Immigration in the United States
With some variation and exceptions, the net fiscal impact of immigrants is more positive than it is for native‐born Americans and positive overall for the federal and state/local governments.
By Alex Nowrasteh, Sarah Eckhardt, and Michael Howard
June 13, 2023
Policy Analysis

No. 950
Why Legal Immigration Is Nearly Impossible
The government’s restrictive criteria render legal paths of immigration available in only the most extreme cases.
By David J. Bier
April 20, 2023
Policy Analysis

No. 943
Streamlining to End Immigration Backlogs
America’s legal immigration system is second only to the tax code in its complexity.
By David J. Bier
December 1, 2022
Policy Analysis

No. 937
How Guest Workers Affect Illegal Immigration
Put simply, Mexican immigrants are the best group to study to understand how U.S. migrant visa and enforcement policies affect the flows of illegal and legal migrants.
By David J. Bier
February 8, 2023
Research Briefs in Economic Policy

No. 319
The Long-Run Effects of Immigration: Evidence across a Barrier to Refugee Settlement
Our analysis focuses on the municipality level with a narrow bandwidth around the border between the 1945–1949 French and U.S. occupation zones in southwest Germany.
By Antonio Ciccone and Jan Nimczik
October 6, 2022
Briefing Paper

No. 141
Processing Backlogs in the U.S. Immigration System: Describing the Scale of the Problem
This brief paper summarizes the basic facts about the immigration backlogs, which comprise roughly 24 million cases across the U.S. government.
By David J. Bier