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  • August 3, 2017
    Blog
    New Anti-Legal Immigrant Bill’s Bizarre Details
    New Anti-Legal Immigrant Bill’s Bizarre Details
    With President Trump’s backing, Senators Tom Cotton (R‑AR) and David Perdue (R‑GA) introduced the RAISE Act, which would reduce legal immigration by 50 percent over 10 years. See here, here, here, and here for our earlier commentary …
    By David J. Bier
  • May 16, 2017
    Blog
    E-Verify Has Delayed or Cost Half a Million Jobs for Legal Workers
    E-Verify Has Delayed or Cost Half a Million Jobs for Legal Workers
    … 649 Total 188,024,834   450,039   129,411   579,450 Sources: Total cases (2006-2014): U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, “E-Verify History and Milestones,” January 19, 2017. TNC share overcome (2011-2016): U.S. Citizenship and Immigration …
    By David J. Bier
  • May 3, 2017
    Blog
    Members of Congress Announce New State-Based Visa Bills at Cato Event
    Members of Congress Announce New State-Based Visa Bills at Cato Event
    At a Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing today, Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Congressman Ken Buck (R-CO) announced their intention to introduce new immigration legislation that would allow states to sponsor workers, entrepreneurs, and …
    By David J. Bier
  • April 26, 2017
    The Federalist
    The Sanctuary Cities Ruling Is Much Ado about Nothing
    … may not prohibit, or in any way restrict, any government entity or official from sending to, or receiving from, the Immigration and Naturalization Service information regarding the citizenship or immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any individual.” In other words …
    By Ilya Shapiro
  • April 21, 2017
    U.S. News & World Report
    A Threat to Americans
    … if we make it easier for immigrants to enter the U.S. and seek out jobs. President Donald Trump’s immigration restrictions will have an enormous economic cost. Immigration restrictions also threaten the liberty and property rights of Americans. Most …
    By Ilya Somin
  • March 28, 2017
    Houston Chronicle
    Unauthorized Immigrants Aren’t Crime ‘Bogeymen’
    … and 0.47 percent of legal immigrants in the same age range. That illegal immigrant incarceration rate includes those in immigration detention and those incarcerated for immigration crimes. Excluding them brings the illegal immigrant incarceration rate down to 0.5 …
    By Alex Nowrasteh
  • February 21, 2017
    San Antonio Express-News
    The Law and Disorder Presidency
    … government‐​created categories. The result has been much law and perpetual disorder. Rutgers law professor Elizabeth Hull wrote that our immigration laws are “second only to the Internal Revenue Code in complexity.” Income tax and immigration complexity produces lawlessness: 25 …
    By Alex Nowrasteh
  • January 18, 2017
    Forbes
    The High Costs of an Immediate Repeal of DACA
    The new president should encourage Congress to come up with a comprehensive immigration reform that reflects his preferences and that also reflects current economic realities.
    By Ike Brannon
  • November 2, 2016
    U.S. News & World Report (Online)
    Filling the Gaps
    Three immigration reforms – two that require only executive actions and one that must be passed by Congress – would do a lot to fill gaps in the current law.
    By Alex Nowrasteh
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