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March 14, 2018
Dallas Morning News

Legal Immigration Has Soared as Illegal Entries Have Dwindled
Here’s the paradox of immigration in America right now: The economy is roaring, and wages are rising, yet 2017 was another year of virtually no illegal border crossings. On average, each Border Patrol agent apprehended just 16 people all …
By David J. Bier
February 25, 2018
Blog

Conservatives and a Libertarian on Immigration at CPAC
… spending and money had little effect, which is maybe what he meant, but it is nonetheless the case that illegal immigration has fallen by 97 percent since then (mainly due to increases in legal immigration, not enforcement). Second, the congressman …
By David J. Bier
February 12, 2018
The Hill (Online)

The House’s Terrible Immigration Framework
… want to increase immigration has surged from 7 percent to 24 percent. This Congress could be the last chance for immigration restrictionists to reduce legal immigration, as the long‐run trends are supportive of immigrants. The SAF Act is a …
By Alex Nowrasteh
January 30, 2018
Blog

America Is One of the Least “Generous” Countries on Immigration
… the least generous countries in the world toward legal immigrants. If the United States does implement the White House’s immigration framework, it would be moving its nation’s immigration system in the opposite direction of the rest of the …
By David J. Bier
January 30, 2018
Cato Daily Podcast

Trump Immigration Plan Would Dramatically Reduce Legal Immigration
Featuring David J. Bier and Caleb O. Brown
January 28, 2018
New York Daily News

The Cheap Assault on the Immigration Visa Lottery
Congress is in the thick of another intense debate on immigration reform, which comes to a head on Feb. 8, the deadline by which lawmakers must pass a spending bill or the government shuts down again. At center stage is …
By Alex Nowrasteh
January 26, 2018
Reason

Republicans Who Think Trump Has Gone Soft Have a Plan: Criminalize Dreamers, Slash Legal Immigration, and Invade Americans’ Privacy
… document for nativists that offers a roadmap for a step‐by‐step march toward their vision. That many House Republicans are coalescing around it exposes the lie that they only object to “illegal” immigration. They are just anti‐immigration. Period.
By David J. Bier
January 18, 2018
Blog

Securing America’s Future Act Is a Net Negative for the Immigration System
… It is 414 pages long and touches on every major area of the immigration system—family, employment, and diversity legal immigration, humanitarian programs, workplace enforcement, temporary visas, interior enforcement, border security, criminal penalties, and much else. Comprehensive immigration reform is …
By David J. Bier
December 1, 2017
Washington Post

Trump Has Made Kate Steinle’s Case about Immigration. It’s Not.
… found not guilty Thursday by a San Francisco jury. President Trump, who has used Steinle’s death to promote harsh immigration policies, quickly responded by calling for a border wall, twitter.com adding that the “Steinle killer came back and …
By David J. Bier
October 2017
Economic Affairs

Vol. 37 No. 3
US Immigration Levels, Urban Housing Values, and their Implications for Capital Share
By Ryan Murphy and Alex Nowrasteh
October 9, 2017
Blog

Seven of the Many Problems with Trump’s Immigration Principles
The White House’s list of immigration priorities for Congress would render a broken immigration system even more dysfunctional, and the president’s team justifies these expensive and unnecessary proposals with distortions and falsehoods.
By David J. Bier
September 29, 2017
Blog

FAIR’s “Fiscal Burden of Illegal Immigration” Study Is Fatally Flawed
The immigration debate deserves higher quality research than the recent FAIR report.
By Alex Nowrasteh
Fall 2017
Cato Journal

Illegal Immigration Outcomes on the U.S. Southern Border
By Bryan W. Roberts
Fall 2017
Cato Journal

Immigration and Its Effect on Economic Freedom: An Empirical Approach
By Ryan Murphy
Fall 2017
Cato Journal

Immigration and Segregation
By Susan M. Wachter

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Legal Immigration Has Soared as Illegal Entries Have Dwindled

Conservatives and a Libertarian on Immigration at CPAC

The House’s Terrible Immigration Framework

America Is One of the Least “Generous” Countries on Immigration

Trump Immigration Plan Would Dramatically Reduce Legal Immigration

The Cheap Assault on the Immigration Visa Lottery

Republicans Who Think Trump Has Gone Soft Have a Plan: Criminalize Dreamers, Slash Legal Immigration, and Invade Americans’ Privacy

Securing America’s Future Act Is a Net Negative for the Immigration System

Trump Has Made Kate Steinle’s Case about Immigration. It’s Not.

US Immigration Levels, Urban Housing Values, and their Implications for Capital Share

Seven of the Many Problems with Trump’s Immigration Principles

FAIR’s “Fiscal Burden of Illegal Immigration” Study Is Fatally Flawed

Illegal Immigration Outcomes on the U.S. Southern Border

Immigration and Its Effect on Economic Freedom: An Empirical Approach

Immigration and Segregation