By Jeremy Beck
Today is Barbara Jordan’s birthday. She would have been 88 years old. Tragically, she died in 1996, just before Congress voted on the immigration recommendations she developed over the last years of her life.
By Jeremy Beck
“Idahoans want less, not more, population growth,” by Leon Kolankiewicz, Idaho State Journal
By Jeremy Beck
The Senate’s $118 billion border bill fails to measure up to Barbara Jordan’s simple yardstick to measure credible enforcement. Here are some of the details:
By Jeremy Beck
There is a long history of legislation siding with employers’ preferences for foreign labor over Black Americans. We have the receipts.
By Jeremy Beck
NumbersUSA’s sprawl studies have, for more than two decades, explored the role of population growth in each county in each state and the role of a multiplicity of decisions by government, business, and individuals that increase the average amount of developed land for each person in each county. Our sprawl studies have been cited in scholarly literature over a hundred times in over a dozen languages.
By Jeremy Beck
In the last act of a rich career of public service, Jordan led the commission through the most thorough examination of the impact of U.S. immigration policies of any federal commission to date.
By Jeremy Beck
America’s intact landscapes comprise 50% or more of the country. We have far more wilderness than most nations. A better immigration policy would go a long way toward protecting this rich resource and heritage.
By Jeremy Beck
Given immigration’s recent and projected contributions to U.S. population growth, immigration policy is an important factor that drives up housing prices and rents. According to a study published by the Urban Institute’s Housing Matters Initiative, immigration causes a significant increase in home prices and rents in the metropolitan areas where migrants settle, and an even … Continued
By Jeremy Beck
FY2023 was the worst year for illegal immigration encounters on record. There are two ways to think about illegal immigration numbers: 1) the number trying to enter illegally; and 2) the number entering illegally. The best metric to gauge the former is the “encounter“. August 2023 encounters were the highest in history at over 300,000; … Continued
