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May 13, 2024
Public Comments

Regulatory Comment Urges DOL to Update “Shortage” List
… immigration, finding that immigrants make the United States a more prosperous country. Angelo Paparelli is certified as a Specialist in Immigration and Nationality Law by the State Bar of California’s Board of Legal Specialization and blogger at www.nationofim …
By David J. Bier, Sam Peak, and Angelo A. Paparelli
May 8, 2024
Testimony

The Cost of the Border Crisis
… companies’ capital income, which—as noted above—radically reduces the fiscal benefits of immigration.38 U.S. Law Thwarts Legal Immigration Unfortunately, the United States is benefiting from immigration despite its outdated and dysfunctional immigration system. Congress has not updated …
By David J. Bier
May 1, 2024
Blog

H-1B Visa Lottery Results Announced: Three-Quarters Rejected
… of the cap, the government has awarded H‑1B visas through a lottery since 2014. This week, US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it received nearly half a million lottery entries for the 2025 fiscal year (which starts …
By David J. Bier
May 1, 2024
Research Briefs in Economic Policy

No. 381
Border Walls and Refugees
Scholars have made important strides in documenting the ineffectiveness of walls in stemming migration, but much of this research is based on examining certain borders and segments of borders.
By Nazli Avdan, Andrew S. Rosenberg, and Christopher F. Gelpi
April 30, 2024
Blog

DOL Must Update Its Shortage Occupation List to Streamline Green Cards
… ability,” but this classification is reportedly almost never used, though this might change thanks to a new US Citizenship and Immigration Services’ policy change announced this month). For the last 33 years, DOL has never recognized any other occupations as …
By David J. Bier
April 24, 2024
Newsweek

The New Census Racial Group May Hurt Those It Is Supposed to Help
Americans whose ancestors came from the MENA region don’t need a new government-designed race to validate their ethnicities, cultures, or ancestry any more than they need a special religious category in a government survey to validate their Islamic, Christian, Jewish, Yazidi, or other religious beliefs.
By Alex Nowrasteh
April 19, 2024
Reason

The Manufactured Crisis of Migrant Terrorists at the Border
Exaggerated threats of terrorists crossing the southern border lead to costly, disproportionate policy decisions.
By Alex Nowrasteh
April 18, 2024
Briefing Paper

No. 177
Immigrant Children and School Choice: Immigrant and Native Enrollment in Private and Public Education
We find that 9 percent of immigrants enrolled in K–12 education were in private school during the 2015–2022 period, compared to 16.3 percent of native-born Americans.
By Michael Howard and Alex Nowrasteh
April 17, 2024
Blog

Crime Rates, Not the Number of Crimes, Are a Better Way to Judge Immigrant Criminality
Focusing on crime rates rather than the number of crimes is essential to compare criminality between populations such as immigrants and native-born Americans. Otherwise, there is no basis for arguing that one or the other is more criminally inclined.
By Alex Nowrasteh
April 16, 2024
Blog

Not Indentured: Most New H-1B Hires Are Changing Jobs
The fact is that the government has wrongly unleveled the playing field for H-1B workers by erecting artificial barriers to job change, but options exist to find better employment within the H-1B system.
By David J. Bier
April 16, 2024
Testimony

Testimony of “How the Border Crisis Impacts Public Safety”
Although it is easy to find examples of people who cause problems, people are, on the whole, assets to a free country.
By David J. Bier
April 9, 2024
Blog

Annual Chance of Being Murdered by a Foreign-Born Terrorist in an Attack Was 1 in 4.5 Million from 1975-2023
The annual chance of being murdered in a foreign-born terrorist attack in the United States was about 1 in 4.5 million during the 1975-2023 period, according to my new policy analyst published by the Cato Institute. During that time, 230 foreign-born terrorists murdered 3,046 people in attacks on US soil.
By Alex Nowrasteh
March 22, 2024
Legal Briefs

United States v. Abbott
In their amicus brief, the Cato Institute and Professor Ilya Somin take no position on the statutory issues, but urge the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to reject Texas’s dangerous Invasion Clause argument.
By Ilya Somin
March 22, 2024
The Daily Beast

Legal Immigrants in Texas Should Be Worried, Too
The state’s new draconian law is so overbroad it would cause complete chaos if allowed to stand. And Iowa and others are pushing copycat bills that are just as bad.
By David J. Bier
March 20, 2024
Free Society

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