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July 27, 2019
The World Bank Economic Review

How Mass Immigration Affects Countries with Weak Economic Institutions: A Natural Experiment in Jordan
By Alex Nowrasteh, Andrew C. Forrester, and Cole Blondin
July 11, 2019
Blog

Sen. Paul’s BELIEVE Act Raises Skilled Immigration Without Tradeoffs
… other legislation introduced this congress. No legislation since the 2013 immigration reform bill that passed the Senate would increase skilled immigration more than this bill. A fourfold increase in employment‐based permanent immigration would bring the United States more in …
By David J. Bier
July 11, 2019
Blog

H-2 Visas Reduced Mexican Illegal Immigration
Government data for the month of June show a substantial decrease in the number of immigrants apprehended along the Southwest border. Much of this decline is probably due to extra Mexican immigration enforcement prompted by President Trump’s threat of …
By Alex Nowrasteh and Andrew C. Forrester
June 27, 2019
Blog

Democratic Debate Ignores Illegal Immigration’s Cause: No Visas
… from 1981 argued that the United States should return to this system. The author wrote, “In all the debate over immigration, no one seems to be considering the possibility of returning to America’s traditional open immigration policy.” The Democratic …
By David J. Bier
June 26, 2019
CNN.com

Trump Is Doing All the Wrong Things on Immigration
… increasing the risk of overdose. Expand legal immigration Expanding legal immigration decreases illegal immigration. And economic research consistently shows that immigration increases economic output. The Penn Wharton Budget Model, for example, calculates that even modest increases in legal immigration would …
By Jeffrey Miron and Laura Nicolae
June 20, 2019
Blog

Higher Asylum Grant Rates Predict Higher Family Appearance Rates in Top Immigration Courts
TRAC Immigration, a project of Syracuse University, published a report this week, showing that 81 percent of recently released families apprehended at the border showed up for all of their hearings. Some immigration court locations did much better than others …
By David J. Bier
June 18, 2019
Washington Post

Congress Is Overlooking Yet Another Crisis in Our Legal Immigration System
With so many immigrants crossing the border illegally, Congress is overlooking another growing crisis in America’s legal immigration system. The central finding of a new study this week shows that legal immigrants are waiting longer than ever before for …
By David J. Bier
June 3, 2019
The Hill (Online)

Can Congress Trust Trump to Implement Immigration Reform?
… depending on the category, but virtually nothing has escaped the attention of this administration. In general, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the agency responsible for immigration benefits applications, has made those forms much longer and more complicated. It has …
By David J. Bier
May 31, 2019
Blog

Tariffs Won’t Stop Illegal Immigration and Could Backfire
… increasing illegal immigration and exacerbating the very problem Trump aims to ameliorate. Indeed, President Trump is so focused on stopping immigration from Central America, which has now overtaken Mexican illegal immigration, that he has forgotten that for nearly a century …
By David J. Bier
May 29, 2019
Research Briefs in Economic Policy

No. 165
Immigration and Preferences for Redistribution in Europe
By Alberto Alesina, Elie Murard, and Hillel Rapoport
May 23, 2019
Blog

What Factors Should an Immigration Points System Include?
Ideally, a points system should serve a single purpose: economic growth. Trying to enlist a points system for other goals—family reunification, humanitarianism, “assimilation,” etc.—ultimately results in an incoherent system that doesn’t serve any of them well.
By David J. Bier
May 15, 2019
Blog

Immigration Form Denials Rise Every Quarter Except One Under Trump, Up 80% Overall
The ultimate goal of this administration is simple: less immigration—illegal or legal.
By David J. Bier
April 3, 2019
Blog

Mexican Immigration Enforcement Has Declined in Effectiveness
Getting Mexico to stop migration isn’t the silver bullet Trump thinks.
By David J. Bier
January 25, 2019
Dallas Morning News

Trump’s Immigration Proposals Would Make the Border More Deadly
Trump’s current ideas hold little benefit for security, safety or humanity.
By David J. Bier
January 23, 2019
Research Briefs in Economic Policy

No. 147
Temporary Protected Status and Immigration to the United States
By David Leblang, Benjamin Helms, Alexa Iadarola, Ankita Satpathy, Kelsey Hunt, Rebecca Brough, Eric Xu, & Mahesh Rao

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How Mass Immigration Affects Countries with Weak Economic Institutions: A Natural Experiment in Jordan

Sen. Paul’s BELIEVE Act Raises Skilled Immigration Without Tradeoffs

H-2 Visas Reduced Mexican Illegal Immigration

Democratic Debate Ignores Illegal Immigration’s Cause: No Visas

Trump Is Doing All the Wrong Things on Immigration

Higher Asylum Grant Rates Predict Higher Family Appearance Rates in Top Immigration Courts

Congress Is Overlooking Yet Another Crisis in Our Legal Immigration System

Can Congress Trust Trump to Implement Immigration Reform?

Tariffs Won’t Stop Illegal Immigration and Could Backfire

Immigration and Preferences for Redistribution in Europe

What Factors Should an Immigration Points System Include?

Immigration Form Denials Rise Every Quarter Except One Under Trump, Up 80% Overall

Mexican Immigration Enforcement Has Declined in Effectiveness

Trump’s Immigration Proposals Would Make the Border More Deadly

Temporary Protected Status and Immigration to the United States