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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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Astounding Asylum Numbers in DOS Refugee Report for FY 2021

Almost 1.15 million aliens in the United States are seeking asylum — enough to make them the 43rd largest state

The numbers don't lie — America, synonymous in many minds with asylum, has an asylum problem. Most Americans, however, likely have no idea how large that problem is.

Topics: Immigration Courts, Asylum

How Immigration Worsens Poverty-Related Problems in Minnesota

Immigrant households account for 35 percent of child poverty in the state

Minnesota is not a high-immigration state relative to the U.S. as a whole, but the socioeconomic divide found there between immigrants and natives is so large that immigration's contribution to the state's poverty-related problems is especially notable.

Topics: Covid-19 and Immigration, Wages, Jobs, and Poverty, Minnesota

Eliminating the K-1 Visa Could Bring $100 Million to Our Ailing Airlines

A recent court case about a visa reminded me of a partial answer to the financial plight of our airlines, a program we propose here that would not cost the taxpayers one thin dime.

The case involves the K-1 (fiancée) nonimmigrant visa, and how rapidly, or slowly, the government is to issue it, and I will get back to that shortly.

Topics: Marriage Fraud, Nonimmigrant Visas

September Measures: Government Issuing More Visas than Prior Month

We have been following nine migration measures over the last few months, and the September data (when compared with that of the prior September) show that the U.S. government, while not opening the gates to their fullest potentials, was allowing some more inward traffic.

In each of the nine measures we find a lesser reduction in the September-September comparisons than we did in the August-August ones. This is particularly true in the H-2B class of non-ag, non skilled workers, as well as in the H-2A farm worker category.

Topics: Covid-19 and Immigration, Current Numbers