U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services U.S. Department of Homeland Security 5900 Capital Gateway Drive Camp Springs, MD 20746 RE: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) Employment Authorization Reform for Asylum Applicants DHS Docket No. USCIS-2025-0370 NumbersUSA welcomes U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ (USCIS) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) related to the … Continued
By Jeremy Beck
President Biden expanded TPS as part of his broader effort to go around immigration limits set by Congress. During the Biden Administration, number of Temporary Protected Status beneficiaries tripled from roughly 400,000 to approximately 1.3 million. Haiti alone expanded from the original 60,000 in 2010 to 350,000 by the end of Biden’s term.
By Jeremy Beck
After the largest wave of foreign workers (legal and illegal) in history arrived during the Biden Administration, the Dignity Act would put even more “mass” in mass immigration.
By Joe Jenkins
The H-1B Wage Gap THE H-1B WAGE GAP How the H-1B Program Undercuts American Workers Source: George J. Borjas, NBER Working Paper No. 34793 (Revised March 2026) KEY FINDING H-1B workers earn 15% less than comparable American workers – generating payroll savings exceeding $100,000 per hire over a six-year visa term. This is after controlling … Continued
By Jeremy Beck
In practice, these demands mirror policies already used by many sanctuary jurisdictions to refuse to honor ICE detainers, claiming that only “judicial” or “court-ordered” warrants allow jails to hold aliens who are already in custody. Imagine if every city in America refused ICE detainers on similar grounds.
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
By Jeremy Beck
Many more people want to come to a rich country like the United States than an orderly immigration system can allow.
By Joe Jenkins
The New York Times reports that these arrests are more common in states with sanctuary policies limiting cooperation with ICE. A Washington Post analysis found that ICE is now making more than four times as many at-large arrests per week than during President Trump’s first term. Sanctuary policies do not stop enforcement–they shift it into less controlled environments.
By Jeremy Beck
Some of the arguments are a matter of semantics, such as whether or not one considers the millions of inadmissible aliens mass paroled into the country by the Biden Administration as legal or illegal.
