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Category: Immigration Challenges

Press Release: New Edition of Back of the Hiring Line Documents How Lower Immigration Lifted Black Workers, and All American Workers

By NumbersUSA

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

Newsletter: Who is Congress rooting for?

By Jeremy Beck

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

Newsletter: Booker T. Washington vs. the Dignity Act

By Jeremy Beck

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 rise up and state our preference.

Newsletter: 25 Years After 9/11, Still No Biometric Exit

By Jeremy Beck

The House Intelligence Committee’s bipartisan Review of the 9/11 Commission Report laments that “the U.S. has not fully implemented a biometric exit screening system at any point of entry category,” although some progress has been made.

Newsletter – The Senate finally has a great asylum bill

By Jeremy Beck

The Senate finally has a bill to permanently close the asylum loopholes that made the last border crisis possible: Sen. Mike Lee’s Stopping Border Surges Act (S. 5371), with six cosponsors.

Newsletter – Three New DHS Rules. Zero Guarantees.

By Jeremy Beck

Every rule Trump signs, a future president can erase. The blueprint for lasting immigration reform already exists.

An open letter to the Wall Street Journal

By Jeremy Beck

Immigration Contributes to Increased Housing Demand Illegal immigration is not the only factor in rising housing costs (“The Latest Housing Scapegoats,” July 8, 2026), or even the most significant factor, but the Dallas Fed working paper demonstrates a basic theory of economics: more people demanding homes without a corresponding increase in supply leads to higher … Continued

2-0: Today’s SCOTUS Decisions

By Jeremy Beck

The Supreme Court today cleared the way for the government to turn back migrants before they reach the border, and to terminate “Temporary” Protected Status designations that have shielded hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens. These are big wins! The two rulings will help future administrations prevent asylum abuse before it happens, and wind down … Continued

The Gang of Eight Bill (S. 744): Forty Years of Broken Promises

By Joe Jenkins

What “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” Actually Delivered – and Why Its Enforcement Promises Could Never Be Kept More than a decade later, the 2013 “Gang of Eight” bill – the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act, S. 744 – is still invoked as the model for what “comprehensive immigration reform” should look like. Its … Continued