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Immigration
… excludes most peaceful and healthy immigrants. Congress should look to America’s past for inspiration to expand and deregulate legal immigration. Subscribe to the Cato Immigration email newsletter The federal government has the legitimate power to protect the life, liberty …
March 10, 2025
Policy Analysis

No. 991
Terrorism and Immigration
The federal government’s security resources should be allocated to the most efficient means of reducing the costs of terrorism.
By Alex Nowrasteh
October 29, 2024
Policy Analysis

No. 983
Why US Immigration Officials Should Allow “Digital Nomad” Admissions
The lack of clear legal rules leaves officials tasked with making arbitrary decisions to facilitate or prohibit digital nomad admissions.
By Angelo A. Paparelli , David J. Bier, Peter Choi, & Stephen Yale-Loehr
April 9, 2024
Policy Analysis

No. 972
Terrorism and Immigration
Foreign‐born terrorism on US soil is a low‐probability event that poses small risks and low costs on Americans as a whole.
By Alex Nowrasteh
March 28, 2025
Blog

Immigration Benefits the Destination Country
Research finds, however, that immigration has large benefits for the destination country.
By Jeffrey Miron and Jacob Winter
March 26, 2025
Research Briefs in Economic Policy

No. 426
The Effects of Immigration in Brazil
Brazilian municipalities with a higher population share of European immigrants in 1920 had greater farm values.
By David Escamilla-Guerrero, Andrea Papadia, and Ariell Zimran
March 19, 2025
Cato Daily Podcast

Terrorism and Immigration 1975–2024
The federal government’s security resources should be allocated to the most efficient means of reducing the costs of terrorism. Alex Nowrasteh details a new paper.
Featuring Alex Nowrasteh and Caleb O. Brown
March 14, 2025
Blog

Trump’s New Immigration Ban: An Arbitrary, Discriminatory Legal Immigration Rewrite
A system banning people based on their nationality is the opposite of merit-based.
By David J. Bier
March 14, 2025
US News and World Report

Trump Claims Dictatorial Powers on Immigration. Everyone Should Be Scared
Whatever one thinks of U.S. border policy, any limits on entries must be imposed lawfully.
By David J. Bier and Ilya Somin
March 13, 2025
Cato Daily Podcast

Christian Asylum Seekers Thwarted by Trump Immigration Policy
Donald Trump created a “faith office” to protect religious liberty and a DOJ task force to combat anti-Christian discrimination, but his immigration policy leaves foreign Christians facing persecution without a way to escape to the US. David Bier explains.
Featuring David J. Bier and Caleb O. Brown
February 25, 2025
News Releases

Cato Experts Available to Talk Immigration Policies
February 4, 2025
News Releases

Cato Scholar: Immigration Orders will Backfire
Since taking office, President Donald Trump has issued several executive orders targeting immigration.
February 3, 2025
Blog

What Trump Has Done and Imminently Plans to Do on Immigration
Everything: the illegal, the unconstitutional, and the merely bad.
By David J. Bier
January 27, 2025
Cato Daily Podcast

Making Legal Immigration More Difficult Is Part of the Trump Agenda
Republicans often talk tough when it comes to illegal immigration, but dramatically reducing legal immigration is key to the Trump agenda, and that fact makes the oft-repeated “just immigrate legally” canard fall apart. David Bier explains.
Featuring David J. Bier and Caleb O. Brown
January 23, 2025
Blog

Who Loses from Immigration Restrictions?
Reduced immigration means higher labor costs. This implies reduced output, and thus reduced demand for native labor, even if businesses partially substitute native for immigrant labor. Reduced immigration can therefore be “lose-lose,” hurting native workers and businesses, in addition to harming immigrants.
By Jeffrey Miron