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October 13, 2022
The Daily Beast

Here’s the Very Simple Way to End the Chaos at the Border
… worker visas. Although Trump ran on building the wall to reduce the chaos, his main immigration achievement was reducing legal immigration, even before the COVID-19 pandemic hit and his administration shut the system down. Ironically, reducing legal immigration just …
By Alex Nowrasteh
October 6, 2022
Cato Daily Podcast

U.S. and Europe Should Welcome Russian Draft Dodgers
If you want to weaken an adversary who is escalating a war on a neighbor while scrambling global energy markets, you could do a lot worse than welcoming people who are trying to escape the regime. Alex Nowrasteh explains.
Featuring Alex Nowrasteh and Caleb O. Brown
October 5, 2022
Blog

CBP Nearly Ends Haitian Illegal Entries By Letting Them In Legally
… let Haitians in legally and avoid the entire situation—a process that it finally created this summer, nearly ending illegal immigration from Haiti. Leading up to the Del Rio detention camp, CBP had refused to admit the Haitians legally at …
By David J. Bier
September 29, 2022
Blog

Will DHS Again Leave H-2B Winter Industries Short Workers?
The H‑2B program allows employers to hire foreign workers for seasonal or temporary nonfarm jobs. But this month, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that employers had already reached the H‑2B cap of 33,000 visas …
By David J. Bier
September 26, 2022
Blog

Farm Workforce Modernization Act Would Reduce Food Inflation
Food prices in the United States are rising at the fastest rate in decades, and many policymakers want to respond. Increasing the number of legal foreign workers available to farms would increase food production and lower prices for consumers.
By David J. Bier
September 16, 2022
The Daily Beast

Desantis’ Migrant Stunt Is Kidnapping by Another Name
… their own, without a government mandate, when they are free to do so. This fact shows the real crisis in immigration law: Americans have the will and desire to make immigration humane and orderly, but there is no legal way …
By David J. Bier
September 14, 2022
Blog

Fentanyl Is Smuggled for U.S. Citizens By U.S. Citizens, Not Asylum Seekers
… the United States, it is unclear how to measure the likelihood of conviction for a noncitizen without U.S. lawful immigration status or citizenship since the denominator would include most Mexicans in Mexico as well as anyone who crosses through …
By David J. Bier
September 14, 2022
Testimony

Statement for the Record: Flatlining Care: Why Immigrants Are Crucial to Bolstering Our Health Care Workforce
Even without the pandemic, the United States already needed more physicians.
By Jeffrey A. Singer
August 1, 2022
Blog

CBP Is Expelling Thousands of Infants and Toddlers to Mexico After Midnight
The United States has never needed people like it needs them now. Birth rates and labor market participation are down, and job openings have never been higher, yet the U.S. government policy toward immigrants has not adjusted.
By David J. Bier
July 27, 2022
Blog

US Foreign-Born Share Ranks Low & Is Falling Among Wealthy Countries
By David J. Bier
July 19, 2022
Blog

Visa Interview Wait Times Reach New Highs: 247 Days for Visitors/Business Travelers
Congress should investigate the State Department and require it to process visas in accordance with the law.
By David J. Bier
July 14, 2022
Blog

Cato Lawsuit to Discover if Trump Lied to SCOTUS about the Muslim Ban
A new lawsuit by the Cato Institute could answer the question of whether the Supreme Court was wrong to accept assertions from former President Trump that his 2017 travel ban was based on security concerns, not animus against Muslims.
By David J. Bier
Summer 2022
Regulation

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Dredging Protectionism
By Colin Grabow
June 28, 2022
Blog

Immigrants Reduce Unionization in the United States
We argue that immigrants result in better and more free economic institutions by undermining labor unions that typically push for the opposite.
By Alex Nowrasteh
June 22, 2015
White Paper

Low-Hanging Fruit Guarded by Dragons: Reforming Regressive Regulation to Boost U.S. Economic Growth
By Brink Lindsey