All Publications

Why Have Asylum Grant Rates Been Plummeting?

Hint: Elections (and election campaigns) have consequences

Re: Collection of Biometric Data from Aliens Upon Entry to and Departure From the United States, Docket No. USCBP-2025-0033; USCBP-2020-006

DOL Reduces Wages for H-2A Workers

Could result in more imported labor and less mechanization

‘Industrialized’ Fraud in the H-1B Visa Program

Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 231

How immigration distorts the redistricting process

Immigration and Social Security Numbers: A Primer

Can the Dems Outflank Trump on Immigration?

Working-Age, but Not Working, 1960 to 2025

Documenting the decades-long increase in the share of the U.S.-born not in the labor force and its implications for immigration policy

The Immigration Court Backlog (Finally) Falls

For the first time in 17 years, more asylum cases are closing than opening—though more can and should be done to narrow the gap.

Asylum Reform: Withdraw from the UN Treaty, or Not?

Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 230