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  • January 8, 2020
    Blog
    8 People Died in Immigration Detention in 2019, 193 Since 2004
    … flexible immigration system. Read the Reforms There are two primary pieces of data required to calculate the death rate in immigration detention: The number of people in detention each year and the number of deaths. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE …
    By Alex Nowrasteh
  • December 30, 2019
    Blog
    Congressional Republicans Dominate High Immigration Periods
    Of all the concerns about immigration, perhaps none is more important to politicians than how immigration affects political control. In particular, many Republicans believe that immigration has clearly boosted the Democratic Party and that higher immigration will obviously doom the …
    By David J. Bier
  • December 18, 2019
    Research Briefs in Economic Policy
    No. 194
    Immigration Demand and the Boomerang of Deportation Policies
    Immigration Demand and the Boomerang of Deportation Policies
    Immigration—especially across the southern border of the United States—is perhaps the dominant political, economic, and cultural issue of Donald Trump’s presidency. While economic incentives to migrate are important factors, widespread violence in migrants’ countries of origin also …
    By Christian Ambrosius and David Leblang
  • December 10, 2019
    The Hill (Online)
    A Bipartisan Immigration Bill That Will Help Farmers
    There’s no doubt America’s major political parties are divided about immigration. But the House of Representatives will vote Wednesday on whether to advance a bipartisan bill—with support from dozens of both Democrats and Republicans—to make the …
    By David J. Bier
  • December 6, 2019
    Blog
    Workplace Immigration Enforcement Increases, Still Below Peak
    … in worksite immigration enforcement over the last few years. Her story focuses on the number of cases initiated and how Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is focusing on immigration law while ignoring other offenses. ICE also provided data to The …
    By Alex Nowrasteh
  • November 20, 2019
    New York Daily News
    Why We Need State-Based Immigration Visas
    … They filled important niches in the labor market that made Canada’s program an integral part of its merit‐​based immigration system. The state‐​based visa bill, crucially, incentivizes states, migrants and employers to enforce and follow federal immigration law …
    By Alex Nowrasteh
  • November 13, 2019
    Cato Daily Podcast
    Easy State-Level Immigration Fixes
    Easy State-Level Immigration Fixes
    There’s no reason states have to abide all of the federal restrictions on immigration. In fact, there are many policies states and localities can adopt to make immigrants welcome. Josh Smith with the Center for Growth and Opportunity comments.
    Featuring Josh Smith and Caleb O. Brown
  • November 6, 2019
    Blog
    Immigration and Homicide Rates in New York City: 1850-2017
    … criminal incarceration rate and there are lower crime rates in the neighborhoods where they live. Even recent research on illegal immigration and crime has found a negative relationship. All of those studies research the relationship between crime and immigration in …
    By Alex Nowrasteh
  • October 18, 2019
    Blog
    Senate Democrats’ RELIEF Act Would Double Legal Immigration Over 10 Years
    … both family‐ and employment‐​based immigration, the RELIEF Act probably contains the best legal immigration reforms overall since the comprehensive immigration reform bill (S. 744) that passed the Senate in June 2013 because it makes legal immigration viable across so …
    By David J. Bier
  • September 24, 2019
    Blog
    New Research on Illegal Immigration and Crime
    How illegal immigrants affect crime is one of the most contentious subareas of debate in the entire immigration issue. Cato scholars have produced much original research on this topic, finding that illegal and legal immigrants both have lower incarceration rates …
    By Alex Nowrasteh
  • August 14, 2019
    Cato Daily Podcast
    Immigration and the Perversion of the "Public Charge"
    Immigration and the Perversion of the “Public Charge”
    The Department of Homeland Security finalized a regulation this week that bans “public charges” from receiving legal status in the United States, a sweeping change. David Bier comments on the likely consequences for immigration.
    Featuring David J. Bier and Caleb O. Brown
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