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March 4, 2025
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Trump to Address Congress: Key Issues & Expert Analysis
… the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)Betting Markets and the Scale of DOGE’s ChallengeDOGE and “Waste, Fraud, and Abuse”IMMIGRATION:International ImmigrationTrump’s Gold Card Plan Has Benefits But Legal and Practical ObstaclesWhat Trump Has Done and Imminently Plans …
January 16, 2025
Blog

Biden Didn’t Cause the Border Crisis, Part 1: Summary
… The prevailing narrative that blames Biden overlooks the real causes of the crisis: America’s robust labor market and bad immigration policies that incentivized illegal entries. However, Trump, not Biden, mostly started those policies. Biden eventually phased out some of …
By David J. Bier
November 25, 2024
Blog

Only 48 Percent of Employment-Based Green Cards Went to Workers in 2023: Here’s How to Fix That
… economic development in the US, and there was a drop in US innovation when Congress closed American borders to European immigration in the 1920s. The evidence is so overwhelming that highly skilled immigration is beneficial to US production and innovation …
By Alex Nowrasteh
November 24, 2024
Reason

The Math on Mass Deportation Doesn’t Add Up
… the recent influx of nearly $1 trillion over the next decade. Flawed calculations and overlooked benefits show why Trump’s immigration plan would be a fiscal disaster for America. The author of the MI study, Daniel DiMartino, generously shared his …
By David J. Bier
November 14, 2024
Blog

Biden’s New Immigrants: Employment, Education, Jobs, and Industries
President-elect Trump is promising to slash both legal and illegal immigration during his second term in office. He also wants to deport millions of immigrants who have entered the country illegally, as well as those who have come legally …
By David J. Bier
November 6, 2024
Blog

Immigrants Didn’t Steal the Election After All
… economics. Of course, President Biden did not go nearly far enough in encouraging legal immigration. An arbitrary limit on legal immigration is the root cause of illegal immigration and border chaos. Harris was never in charge of immigration policy. But …
By David J. Bier
September 17, 2024
Blog

Immigrants Receive Less Medicare and Medicaid Per Person
If members of Congress truly care about improving Americans’ health care, they should make legal immigration substantially easier.
By David J. Bier
September 13, 2024
Blog

Immigrant Population Is Still One Million Below the Pre-Trump Trend
Without high rates of immigration going forward, the US population will significantly decline.
By David J. Bier
August 8, 2024
Blog

US Citizens Were 80 Percent of Crossers with Fentanyl at Ports of Entry from 2019 to 2024
Many people wrongly believe that immigration is critical to the illicit supply of fentanyl in the United States. However, proponents of this view have offered little more than speculation to support it. New data obtained by the Cato Institute via a Freedom of Information Act request calls this belief into question.
By David J. Bier
July 17, 2024
Blog

The Potent Political Effect of Border Chaos and Immigrant Crime: Separating Rhetoric from Reality
Republicans and others are linking immigration and crime in ways that don’t match the facts.
By Alex Nowrasteh
July 3, 2024
Cato Daily Podcast

Examining the Evidence on Immigrant Crime
Texas collects data on the immigration status of those accused of crimes in the state. What it tells us about the crime rates of immigrants versus native-born Americans is valuable. Alex Nowrasteh explains.
Featuring Alex Nowrasteh and Caleb O. Brown
June 26, 2024
Blog

New Cato Research Shows That Illegal Immigrants Are Less Likely to Be Convicted of Murder in Texas
The findings imply that more immigration enforcement will not bring down crime rates.
By Alex Nowrasteh
June 18, 2024
Blog

Plan for Immigrant Spouses of US Citizens Faces Implementation Issues
Although this policy improves immigration policy, it is reprehensible that Biden has waited until a few months before the presidential election to move forward with it or address the longstanding backlogs for spouses of US citizens.
By David J. Bier
May 2, 2024
Blog

Employer-Sponsored Green Card Processing Takes Over Three Years
It is time for the US government to radically streamline its immigration system and eliminate unnecessary, burdensome procedures.
By David J. Bier
April 12, 2024
Blog

ICE Is Releasing Fewer Criminals Than Under Trump
Every minute that ICE or CBP wastes on pursuing someone seeking to work here is a minute they are not pursuing someone who may threaten the public. To end these wasteful practices, America should rethink its immigration system to provide legal ways for people to come to and work in this country.
By David J. Bier