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Date March 28, 2025

Sen. Grassley’s new E-Verify bill is a GREAT SOLUTION to our enforcement challenges

On Thursday, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) introduced S. 1151, the Accountability Through Electronic Verification Act, to identify unauthorized workers and illegal aliens engaged in identity fraud and theft. The bill is one of NumbersUSA's "Great Solutions" for fixing immigration policies in the 119th Congress.

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Date March 21, 2025

Immigration still No. 1; Trump gets a new app

The problem for the Democratic Party, in Leonhardt's view, is that while corporations often push for higher immigration in order to lower wages, immigration expansionist advocates take a moralistic view that's devoid of nuance: "The advocates' position, in essence, was: More is good, and less is racist. Voters disagreed, and they rebelled."

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Date March 18, 2025

Vance amplifies immigration-housing cost link

"If you allow 20 million people to compete with American citizens for the cost of homes, you are going to have a large and, frankly, completely preventable spike in the demand for housing. And that is what we, of course, have seen. Because while we made it a little bit hard to build homes in this country over the last four years, we've also, unfortunately, made it way too easy for people to compete against American citizens for the precious homes that are in our country to begin with."

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Date March 13, 2025

Illegal population grew by at least 50 percent. What is Congress prepared to do?

The final reckoning of the Biden Administration's immigration and enforcement policies has yet to come, but the 2021-2025 era was clearly historic. Biden's border crisis is over, but the fallout will be with us for years.

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Date March 11, 2025

Deportations are necessary but not sufficient

At the current rate of deportations, the government would need two dozen years to clear the 2021-2025 border crisis. The best way to boost enforcement is to take away people's ability to work illegally.

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Date March 11, 2025

The border crisis is over (for now)

In January this year, monthly border encounters fell below one hundred thousand for the first time since January, 2021 (exactly four years ago).

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Date February 28, 2025

E-Verify: the ultimate force multiplier

In his article for UnHeard, “The progressive case for Trump’s deportations,” Juan David Rojas says Democrats should follow the advice of the late Democratic icon Barbara Jordan, who said “For the [immigration] system to be credible, people actually have to be deported at the end of the process”.  But Rojas also offers another approach that is necessary … Continued

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Date February 28, 2025

287(g) – a force multiplier

The 287(g) program allows state and local police to identify illegal aliens during the course of their daily duties. 287(g) gets its name from Section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act that designates that authority. Congress added Section 287(g) as part of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act in 1996. The program was mostly unused until … Continued

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Date February 11, 2025

Nine out of ten new jobs have gone to immigrants since 2020

According to a new Center for Immigration Studies analysis of the January 2025 household survey, released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics: “The long-term increase in men not in the labor force is linked to profound social problems,” writes Dr. Steven A. Camarota, “such as crime and overdose deaths. Addressing this deterioration is challenging, but … Continued

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