House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., issued a statement today in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to take up the executive amnesty case expressing confidence that Justices will block implementation of the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA) and extended Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) programs. The statement reads: … Continued

Gov. Ayotte signed into law two immigration bills that NumbersUSA advocates have been pressuring state legislators to pass. One measure ensures that any state, county, or local law enforcement agency may enter into a 287(g) agreement with ICE if it so chooses. The second bill prohibits state and local entities and law enforcement agencies from participating in any sanctuary policies that limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities.

"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."

This NumbersUSA State Government Relations Action Report follows the team’s recent visit to the U.S.-Mexico Border in Yuma, Arizona, and San Diego, California, where we showed a group of Montana Legislators the intricacies of immigration enforcement and what they, as state legislators, can do to protect their constituents from Biden’s failed and dangerous immigration policies. … Continued

Last week, one of The New York Times‘ conservative columnists, Bret Stephens, and one of their liberal columnists, Gail Collins, published a back-and-forth on their view of some of the currently hot political issues. Not surprisingly, they started with the migrant crisis. The week before that, one of The Washington Post‘s conservative columnists, Marc Thiessen, … Continued

Last week, Chris Chmielenski, Wyatt (one of our nearby volunteers), and I went out to Indianapolis for the National Conference of State Legislatures’ 2023 Legislative Summit. As part of NumbersUSA’s expanding push on states to take action to combat the huge increase in illegal immigration, our exhibit centered on E-Verify. E-Verify is the free online … Continued

As some of you have already seen, the aggressive misinformation about E-Verify started in Florida before Governor DeSantis even signed the bill into law (which he did on May 10th): The most prominent clickbait story about the bill out of the gate was a semi-viral May 7th video about construction “stopping” at sites in Miami, … Continued

Last week, NumbersUSA sent a team to the Texas State Fair grounds in Dallas, TX, site of the largest Earth Day exposition in the world, EarthX. We presented our new study on Texas sprawl, and shared our exhibit with over a fifteen hundred people, most of whom were not surprised to learn that Texas has … Continued

We know that – even before the ongoing border crisis – our high immigration levels transfer nearly half-a-TRILLION dollars from workers to employers. We can see that high immigration numbers don’t deliver the productivity outcomes advocates promise. No matter. President Biden last week announced yet another lawless step to greenlight additional masses of foreign nationals … Continued