Why are Unions Supporting Big Business Immigration Policy?

By Jared Culver

Since 2000, labor unions have abandoned their historical skepticism of mass immigration and gradually learned to love bloated labor markets.

America’s farmers, ranchers, and producers don’t want the consequences of immigration-driven population growth

By Rob Harding

The consequences of our expanding population encroaching on America’s farm and ranch strongholds were on the minds of many attendees at the 2024 American Farm Bureau Convention.

State E-Verify Statutes

By Chris Pierce

States have taken action to reduce hiring illegal aliens: learn more about E-Verify statutes and their requirements. Discover more.

How America’s immigration surge is linked to wetlands loss

By Henry Barbaro

Legal and illegal immigration now amount to the rough equivalent of a new Los Angeles every year – a factor in the loss of 60,000 acres of wetlands every year.

Senate Immigration Deal Fails to Measure Up Against Barbara Jordan’s Credibility Yardstick

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:

Senate Border Bill Codifies Biden Border Policies

By Jared Culver

If one thing is certain today, it is that President Biden’s border policies have been a disaster. He came into power rescinding policies like Remain in Mexico and expanding parole for aliens entering the United States illegally. With each policy step he takes, border numbers increase. As the numbers increase, more states and localities declare … Continued

Biden Legal Pathways Strategy Meets Reality

By Jared Culver

As we prepare to leave January 2024 behind (already!?), the Biden Administration has finally confirmed that there were a record 371,436 encounters of illegal immigrants nationwide, with 302,034 of those encounters at the border, alone, in just this past December. The Administration also bragged about recruiting and releasing, under parole, approximately 327,000 individuals from countries … Continued

“Worker Shortage” or Employer Preference?

By Jeremy Beck

There is a long history of legislation siding with employers’ preferences for foreign labor over Black Americans. We have the receipts.

Treat Essential Workers Better

By Roy Beck

Most of the people celebrated as “essential workers” during the pandemic were part of the working classes whose interests had been ignored and devalued for decades by the makers of immigration policies — policies that had steadily depressed their wages and their labor participation rates. And, of course, many of them were immigrants themselves who now found their climb up the economic ladder depressed by each annual legal arrival of a million more permanent competitors, not counting the unauthorized foreign workers.