For months, sanctuary cities and states have been building the legal infrastructure to accommodate the next border crisis. Chairman McClintock's hearing showed why Congress cannot afford to leave those policies unchallenged.

Immigration enforcement is producing results not seen in decades. More than 80,000 illegal aliens accepted voluntary departure orders between January 2025 and March 2026 — at least seven times the roughly 11,400 who did so during the final 15 months of the Biden administration, according to court data compiled by the Vera Institute of Justice. … Continued

The Endangered Species Act remains a vital safeguard against extinction. But it cannot, on its own, compensate for the impacts of perpetual human expansion. If conservation begins only after species are already in decline, the options for recovery will likely be extremely limited.

Yes, Congress funded the administration's enforcement operations. But with Republican control of both chambers and the White House, the border legislation they once championed has quietly disappeared from the agenda.

We need Republicans in the House to call a vote on Rep. McClintock's Shut Down Sanctuary Policies Act, or better yet a vote to lock in border security measures before recent history repeats itself and we find ourselves amid another run on the border. 

USCIS just filled the cap again – proving that even a $100,000 fee cannot fix what only legislation can. For a brief moment last fall, it looked as though the H-1B program might finally be shrinking. The administration imposed a $100,000 supplemental fee on new H-1B petitions in September 2025. Overseas applications collapsed almost immediately. … Continued

The Trump administration has launched the most aggressive worksite enforcement campaign in decades — and in doing so, has exposed a fundamental flaw in immigration law that only Congress can fix. Worksite Enforcement — Inconsistently Tried The history of workplace audits in the United States is a history of starts and stops, driven entirely by … Continued

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

In 2026, NumbersUSA is revisiting the subject of sprawl in California. Preliminary analysis suggests 93% of sprawl in recent decades in the state has been caused by immigration-driven population growth.