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Identity Theft and Illegal Employment: What a Major Investigation Reveals About the Crisis Harming American Citizens

By Joe Jenkins

More than a million Americans may be victims of identity theft by an illegal worker. That is one of the startling findings from a December 2025 RealClearInvestigations exposé that documented the staggering scale of identity theft connected to illegal employment – and the devastating consequences for the American citizens whose identities are stolen. The investigation, … Continued

Record Immigration Is Driving America’s Housing Crisis

By Joe Jenkins

How Biden-Era Border Policies Priced American Families Out of Their Own Communities A landmark federal report has confirmed what struggling American families already knew: record-breaking immigration has driven housing costs through the roof, pricing millions out of their own communities. The HUD Report: Immigration and “Worst Case Housing Needs” In December 2025, the U.S. Department … Continued

Ruy Teixeira’s 10 rules of “immigration realism”

By Jeremy Beck

Many more people want to come to a rich country like the United States than an orderly immigration system can allow.

2026 will determine the legacy of a historic 2025

By Jeremy Beck

The Laken Riley Act became the first bill to address enforcement failures to be passed by Congress on a bipartisan basis since the 2006 Secure Fence Act. Twenty years ago, the bipartisan support came from the likes of Senators Jeff Sessions (R-AL), John McCain (R-AZ), Joe Biden (D-DE), Hilary Clinton (D-NY) Barack Obama (D-IL), and Charles “Chuck” Schumer (D-NY).

Sen. Gallego sounds the H-1B alarm

By Jeremy Beck

Gallego is not questioning the value of skilled immigrants; he is questioning a system that appears to sideline young Americans even as companies claim no domestic talent exists.

Housing Costs a Matter of Supply and Demand

By Philip Cafaro

Politicians across the political spectrum agree that America has a housing crisis. Home prices and rents have surged beyond what many households can reasonably afford.

While business journalists and housing experts tend to focus on supply, the demand side of the equation is equally important in determining housing prices. When the number of families grows faster than the number of housing units, competition for existing housing increases and prices rise. This has happened in many parts of the country over the past four years, due to immigration-driven population growth.

Vance said America will thrive with less immigration. History backs him up.

By Jeremy Beck

Our publication is titled Emancipation Reclamation because the decades of low immigration reclaimed the promise of economic emancipation for former slaves, freedmen, and their descendants. But as Vance explained – and we document – the slow down in immigration produced broad benefits for Americans workers of every background.

U.S. companies lay off a million workers; government brings in a million more

By Jeremy Beck

So far, U.S. employers have announced 1.1 million layoffs, hitting both white-collar and blue-collar industries. Unless Congress changes the law, immigration will add roughly 1.1 million new permanent foreign workers to compete with laid off Americans.

Why all these unnecessary foreign worker programs?

By Jeremy Beck

These programs bypass domestic workers and exploit foreigners who work for less. As the headlines make clear, there is no shortage of American STEM talent. So why is our government filling hundreds of thousands of jobs with guest workers?