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‘Trump Effect’ likely explains slowdown

Recently released Census data shows the number of immigrants (legal and illegal) grew more slowly from 2017 to 2019 than in prior years.

In the first two years of the Trump administration, growth in the immigrant population averaged only about 200,000 a year, in contrast to 650,000 a year from 2010 to 2017.

Panel: Trump vs. Biden on Immigration

The Center for Immigration Studies hosted a panel analyzing the presidential candidates' positions on immigration and how immigration policy may be impacted by the November 3 election. Immigration has not been widely discussed by either presidential campaign, but the issue has a major impact on many issues Americans care strongly about, including jobs, wages, healthcare, the economy, law enforcement, and education.

Panel: Overcrowded Housing Among Immigrant and Native-Born Workers

Dr. Peter Skerry, a professor of political science at Boston College and a past senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, joined Dr. Steven Camarota, the Center's director of research and co-author of the report.

New H-1B Rules to Protect American Workers

The new H-1B rules being announced today are long-overdue moves to protect American workers. These reforms strike directly at the harmful staffing-company model of employment that has commodified these visa workers, displaced qualified Americans, and undermined the integrity of employment visa programs.

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New Census Bureau Data Indicates There Was a Large Increase in Out-Migration in the First Part of the Trump Administration

Using data from data.census.gov, a new CIS Backgrounder examines growth in the nation's immigrant population. That data, from the American Community Survey (ACS), shows that in the first two years of the Trump administration (2017 to 2019), growth in the immigrant population (legal and illegal) averaged only about 200,000 a year, in contrast to 650,000 a year from 2010 to 2017.

Topics: Current Numbers

DHS Announces OPT Enforcement Moves, Opening 1,100 jobs for Citizens

It is useful that DHS has taken these steps against a small percentage of the OPT workers who apparently are not in status, but it would make even more sense to eliminate the program completely, as it has no legislative basis and takes something like $2 billion a year out of the Social Security and Medicare trust funds, while denying 200,000 or so American college grads jobs.

Topics: Optional Practical Training Program (OPT)

U.S.-Bound Yemeni Migrants and Their Smuggler Busted in Brazil

Happening as they are in a major hemispheric transit country like Brazil, the human smuggling busts warrant wider public notice as a boon to U.S. national security. The joint U.S.-Brazil operations are akin to blowing immigrant-smuggling bridges that connect countries of terrorism concern, like Yemen, to the southern border and make it possible for terrorists to cross.

Topics: National Security

State Department (a Bit Late) Makes the Right Move on 'B-1 in Lieu of H-1B'

The State Department has taken exactly the right steps in connection with an obscure misuse of a foreign worker program termed, obliquely, "the use of B-1 in lieu of H-1B". It has proposed regulations that will simply drop two sentences in existing rules, which, in turn, wipes out the program completely; and, of course, it takes 40 pages of small type to explain what it will do.

Topics: U.S. Department of State, H-1B Nonimmigrant Visa Progam