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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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Date January 31, 2025

Mission: Repair the broken promises of 2020 & 1965

“…the bill before you in no way significantly increases the basic numbers of immigrants to be permitted entry. We are not talking about increased immigration…”  Rep. Emmanuel “Manny” Celler (D-NY), one of the principal authors of the “Hart-Celler” Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, promising to keep immigration levels to under 300,000 per year. “The last thing we need is to say we’re … Continued

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Date January 22, 2025

Trump fulfills “birthright citizenship” campaign promise + more executive orders

President Trump signed a bevy of immigration-related executive orders on his first day in office. We’ll have more to tell you about these orders in the days ahead. You’ll see in our short explanations below that Trump’s first actions focus on ending what NumbersUSA Co-CEO Roy Beck calls “the federal government’s recent practice of the … Continued

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Date January 21, 2025

Rep. Calvert introduces the first Great Solution Bill of the 119th Congress

Rep. Ken Calvert has introduced the first “Great Immigration Solution” bill in the House, H.R. 251, the Legal Workforce Act. This bill would fulfill one of the Jordan Commission’s key recommendations by permanently reauthorizing E-Verify and phasing in its mandatory use. Rep. Calvert is a stalwart champion of strengthening interior enforcement. His career in the House spans four decades … Continued

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Date January 17, 2025

Barbara Jordan’s recommendations are the backbone of our great immigration solutions

Barbara Jordan died twenty-eight years ago on this day, January 17th. Her last act of public service to the national community that she loved was to lead the bipartisan U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform. At the time of her death, she was on the cusp of ushering in a new golden age of immigration.  Her … Continued

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Date July 26, 2024

J.D. Vance gets an “A” from NumbersUSA; echoes Barbara Jordan in convention speech

In his acceptance speech Wednesday night at the Republican National Convention, Vance sounded a whole lot like the late Democrat Barbara Jordan.

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Date November 2, 2020

Mandatory E-Verify Could Help End Tragic Deaths at the Border

The New York Times feature “How U.S. Policy Turned the Sonoran Desert Into a Graveyard for Migrants” by James Verini published late this summer profiles 23 year old Roberto Primero Luis, a “cheerful, studious and devout” barbershop entrepreneur in Guatemala who tragically died, dehydrated and exhausted, while traversing the Sonoran Desert in an attempt to … Continued

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Date October 13, 2020

Encouraging Agency Action to Protect American Workers

While unemployment in the United States remains high, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and the Department of Labor (DOL) have taken the novel step of actually moving to protect American jobs for American workers. It is novel because a review of past agency actions in prior Administrations will offer scant evidence that … Continued

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