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March 11, 2021
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DHS Expels Families to Mexico & Kids Come Back Alone: La Separación
… that the new president would create a faster, legal route to get her case in front of a U.S. immigration judge.” She said that the separation was killing her. “I consider throwing myself in [the river] to die because …
By David J. Bier
March 10, 2021
Blog

Trump’s Border Policies Let More Immigrants Sneak In
… Wall Street Journal that he had turned himself into the first Border Patrol agent he saw and was seeking “the immigration office.” Rather than direct these crossers to legal crossing points, the Trump administration blocked applicants from applying at ports …
By David J. Bier
March 9, 2021
Blog

U.S. Accounts for 6% of Global Immigrant Population Growth, Down From 63% in 1995
… is losing its preeminence as the world’s premier receiving country. In the 1990s, the United States increased the legal immigration limits for family‐ and employment‐based immigration and accepted millions of unauthorized immigrants, increasing the illegal population by 5 …
By David J. Bier
March 4, 2021
Blog

House Bill Provides Path to Citizenship for Most Legal Dreamers
… the entire employment-based system if this bill becomes law. Media Name: usa-nyc-statueofliberty.jpg Related Study Deregulating Legal Immigration: ABlueprint for Agency Action President Trump went to unprecedented lengths to restrict legal immigration in his one term—but …
By David J. Bier
March 2, 2021
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Biden’s “Wait in Mexico” Is Worse Than Trump’s “Remain in Mexico”
… north of the border. At a final hearing after months or years living homeless in Tijuana, Juarez, or Matamoras, an immigration judge could at least theoretically grant them asylum and entry into the United States. Under the Biden administration’s …
By David J. Bier
March 1, 2021
Blog

Mexican President AMLO Proposes New Guest Worker Visa Based on the Bracero Program
… program was an indispensable component of reducing illegal immigration by providing a lawful means of migration to substitute for illegal immigration. The Bracero program was astonishingly successful at reducing illegal immigration. The number of apprehensions of illegal immigrants, a proxy …
By Alex Nowrasteh
March 1, 2021
Blog

DHS Should Release Supplemental H-2B Visas Immediately
… 000 visas for Guatemalans, Hondurans, and Salvadorans, as a way to channel some workers into a legal alternative to illegal immigration. DHS had planned to release additional visas this way in 2020, but then cancelled the supplemental cap entirely. Using …
By David J. Bier
February 20, 2021
National Interest (Online)

How Much of a Threat Is Espionage From Chinese Immigrants?
Native-born Americans who are ethnically Chinese are less likely to be spies than their proportion of the population would suggest.
By Alex Nowrasteh
February 16, 2021
Policy Analysis

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H-2B Visas: The Complex Process for Nonagricultural Employers to Hire Guest Workers
By David J. Bier
February 5, 2021
Blog

Biden Tells the State Department to Launch Private Refugee Sponsorship
Private refugee sponsorship is an extremely positive development, but the order provides no specifics on implementation.
By David J. Bier
February 3, 2021
Blog

Few Immigrants Among Capitol Insurrectionists
Only 3.7 percent of the Capitol rioters were immigrants, which is lower than the nationwide foreign-born percentage of 13.7 percent.
By Alex Nowrasteh
January 29, 2021
Blog

DOL Wage Rule Affects All Major Employers, 70% of H-1B Requests, After DOL Said Few Should Be Affected
DOL admits that most major companies are already offering wages higher than the existing prevailing wage and offering similar amounts to the “actual wages” that their other U.S. workers are making, and so its decision to raise the prevailing wage should have only a relatively small effect for those other companies “abusing” the process.
By David J. Bier
January 22, 2021
The Hill (Online)

The Capitol Putsch Reminds Us That It’s Not Immigrants Undermining Our Institutions
Like the babysitter in the urban legend, we only just realized that the call to destroy our economic and political system is coming from the inside.
By Alex Nowrasteh
January 20, 2021
Blog

Supplemental Border Wall Funding Violates the Appropriations Clause
Cato files a brief in a Supreme Court case taking up the reallocation of military appropriations to build a wall on the southern border.
By Ilya Shapiro, William Yeatman, and Mallory Reader
January 8, 2021
Blog

Only 44 Percent of Employment-Based Green Cards Were Granted to Workers in 2019
If family members were exempted from the employment-based green card’s numerical cap or if there were a separate green card category for them, an additional 77,927 immigrant workers could have earned a green card in 2019 without increasing the numerical cap.
By Alex Nowrasteh

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DHS Expels Families to Mexico & Kids Come Back Alone: La Separación

Trump’s Border Policies Let More Immigrants Sneak In

U.S. Accounts for 6% of Global Immigrant Population Growth, Down From 63% in 1995

House Bill Provides Path to Citizenship for Most Legal Dreamers

Biden’s “Wait in Mexico” Is Worse Than Trump’s “Remain in Mexico”

Mexican President AMLO Proposes New Guest Worker Visa Based on the Bracero Program

DHS Should Release Supplemental H-2B Visas Immediately

How Much of a Threat Is Espionage From Chinese Immigrants?

H-2B Visas: The Complex Process for Nonagricultural Employers to Hire Guest Workers

Biden Tells the State Department to Launch Private Refugee Sponsorship

Few Immigrants Among Capitol Insurrectionists

DOL Wage Rule Affects All Major Employers, 70% of H-1B Requests, After DOL Said Few Should Be Affected

The Capitol Putsch Reminds Us That It’s Not Immigrants Undermining Our Institutions

Supplemental Border Wall Funding Violates the Appropriations Clause

Only 44 Percent of Employment-Based Green Cards Were Granted to Workers in 2019