FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 15, 2026 Roy Beck’s expanded history traces two centuries of immigration surges, employer bias, and the depression of Black wealth, and the four decades when tight labor markets built a middle-class nation ARLINGTON, Va. — Supporters of high levels of immigration increasingly claim the moral high ground in the immigration debate. … Continued

America's rivers, reservoirs, and aquifers face growing demands as the population increases. With immigration accounting for much of recent U.S. population growth, federal immigration policy has important consequences for water supplies, drought resilience, and the ability of communities to absorb unexpected disruptions.

The Pueblo sewage spill contaminated Colorado's Arkansas River with millions of gallons of untreated wastewater, highlighting the vulnerability of already-stressed water resources. As immigration-driven population growth increases demands on limited water supplies and wastewater infrastructure, communities face growing environmental risks and less capacity to absorb unexpected disruptions.

For the first time in history, a sitting Vice President has acknowledged what millions of Americans have come to know: the H-1B visa program displaces Americans and exploits guest workers.  That happened this week when J.D. Vance led a press conference to announce that several companies, including Microsoft and Adobe, were suspended from PERM, the … Continued

On September 29, the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general released an audit of how ICE handled visa overstays from fiscal years 2021 through 2024. For most of that period, ICE worked under a September 2021 policy memo that told it to pursue only the overstays who posed the highest threat to national security or … Continued

Congress has three months left to deliver on border security, E-Verify and lower numbers. The Bureau of Labor Statistics issued its latest report this morning. More than 17 million people are either unemployed, working part-time for economic reasons, or want a job but haven’t actively looked in recent weeks. That’s more than the entire population … Continued

Your Senators now have a bill that would end chain migration and the visa lottery. Sen. Tommy Tuberville introduced the Americans First Immigration Act (S. 5485) this week. The bill would modernize immigration by replacing a system built on luck with an intentional merit-based program that requires employers to prioritize American workers and the rule … Continued

California’s dramatic growth over the past half-century has transformed its landscape. Paving Paradise examines how immigration-driven population growth has contributed to sprawling development, the loss of farmland and natural habitat, and growth pressures that increasingly extend beyond California’s borders.

The immigration surge from 2021-2025 was the largest in U.S. history, doubling down on a broken promise that Washington, D.C. has left unacknowledged and unaddressed for sixty years. Voters decisively backed immigration reductions in the 2024 elections. The Dignity Act flies in the face of that mandate. We have an alternative vision. And we need the citizen lobby to...