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  • March 6, 2008
    Blog
    New Paper on Electronic Employment Eligibility Verification
    … workers and businesses in Kafkaesque bureaucracy and erode the freedoms of American citizens, even as it failed to stem illegal immigration. Ultimately, there is no alternative but for Congress to repair the broken immigration system by aligning legal immigration with …
    By Jim Harper
  • April 29, 2025
    News Releases
    Cato Institute Analysis: Key Actions in President Trump’s First 100 Days
    Cato Institute Analysis: Key Actions in President Trump’s First 100 Days
    Tuesday marks the 100th day of President Donald Trump’s second term — an early benchmark for evaluating policy direction and priorities. During this time, his administration has taken significant actions on issues including immigration, education, and trade. Scholars from the …
  • January 29, 2025
    News Releases
    Cato Scholar Debunks Trump’s Fentanyl Figures amid Tariff Talk
    Cato Scholar Debunks Trump’s Fentanyl Figures amid Tariff Talk
    In recent remarks to the press, President Donald Trump restated his intention to impose 25% tariffs on U.S. imports from Mexico and Canada as early as Feb. 1. His reasoning: “vast” illegal immigration and “massive” amounts of fentanyl coming …
  • January 2, 2019
    Blog
    Unintended Consequences of the Federal Shutdown
    From WAPO: IN THE name of securing the border and keeping out illegal immigrants, President Trump has opted for a partial government shutdown. Irony of ironies, that shutdown has paralyzed the nation’s immigration courts, shuttering many of them and …
    By Jeffrey Miron
  • February 13, 2018
    Blog
    Nowrasteh on a DACA Fix That’s “Worse than Nothing”
    … they maintain an income 125 percent higher than the poverty line. The SAF Act also makes major cuts to legal immigration categories: [It] inexplicably cuts legal immigration, reducing the number of immigrants by as much as half after 10 years …
    By Cato Editors
  • August 25, 2017
    Blog
    The RAISE Act Would Hurt U.S. Taxpayers
    The RAISE Act Would Hurt U.S. Taxpayers
    … 011,272,100 $222,884,332,891 Sources: NAS Table 8-14, Current Population Survey, Author’s Calculations. Double Skilled Immigration and 25 Percent Increase in Lower Skilled Immigration Congress could also decide to increase legal immigration with a heavy …
    By Alex Nowrasteh
  • September 21, 2016
    The Hill (Online)
    Terror Attacks Won’t Budge Millennial Voters
    … immigration and terrorism. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton both responded quickly to events, with Trump complaining that America’s open immigration system was to blame and Clinton promising to “smash ISIS” through an intensified air campaign in Syria and Iraq …
    By A. Trevor Thrall and Erik Goepner
  • September 5, 2017
    Blog
    Executive DACA Had to End, but Congress Must Now Legislate It
    DACA is a good policy but bad law. Those who were brought to the United States illegally as children and have since led productive lives deserve to stay and earn citizenship. Alas, our immigration laws prevent this and the executive …
    By Ilya Shapiro
  • October 11, 2010
    Cato Daily Podcast
    More Prosperity, Less Government
    More Prosperity, Less Government
    Caleb Brown: This is the Cato daily podcast for Monday, October 11, 2010. I’m Caleb Brown. According to CNBC reporter Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, the GOP has gone wrong on everything from Medicare to immigration to education and getting those …
    Featuring Michelle Caruso-Cabrera and Caleb O. Brown
  • December 9, 2015
    Blog
    Arab and Muslim Americans: The New “Others”
    Proposals that would strip Arabs and Muslims of their rights and turn them into political and societal lepers should be repudiated—vocally and forcefully.
    By Patrick G. Eddington
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