Report

Why Have Asylum Grant Rates Been Plummeting?

Hint: Elections (and election campaigns) have consequences

DOL Reduces Wages for H-2A Workers

Could result in more imported labor and less mechanization

Immigration and Social Security Numbers: A Primer

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

Map: Sanctuary Cities, Counties, and States

Why the Decline in the Foreign-Born in the Monthly Household Survey in 2025 Is Very Likely Real

How Counting Noncitizens Distorts State Legislatures

Voters living near aliens get more representation

The Fifth Circuit — Majority and Dissent — Gets the Alien Enemies Act Wrong

Yes, Tren de Aragua has launched a predatory incursion against the United States

Deportation Basics Revisited

How immigration enforcement works (or doesn’t) in real life

Trump Derailed Biden’s Refugee Resettlement Expansion

A look at what might have been