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.

Press Release: New Report Finds California Has Lost 3 Yosemites’ Worth of Open Land to Sprawl

By NumbersUSA

California’s population has doubled over the past five decades,” said Leon Kolankiewicz, an environmental planner and the report’s lead author. “That growth naturally led to sprawl, as developers constructed new homes, roads, and office parks to meet demand. In fact, our analysis shows that population growth drove 91% of the total loss of open land.

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: 17 million Americans want work this Labor Day

By Jeremy Beck

The departure of non-workers takes pressure off of taxpayers and schools. But American workers would benefit far more if we could take the next step: focus more attention on illegal hiring.

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

A Better Life … For Whom?

By NumbersUSA

Lionel Shriver’s new novel “A Better Life” is both engaging fiction and a provocative thought experiment. It invites reflection on who bears the costs of immigration policies, and whether those costs are being equitably shared. For that reason, it comes highly recommended — as an absorbing novel and as a book worth sharing.

THE H-1B WAGE GAP

By Joe Jenkins

The H-1B Wage Gap THE H-1B WAGE GAP How the H-1B Program Undercuts American Workers Source: George J. Borjas, NBER Working Paper No. 34793 (Revised March 2026) KEY FINDING H-1B workers earn 15% less than comparable American workers – generating payroll savings exceeding $100,000 per hire over a six-year visa term. This is after controlling … Continued

Jordan’s Blueprint for Sensible Immigration

By Jeremy Beck

“If you want to know heat in its actuality,” Jordan – a proud Texan – remarked, “chair the bipartisan commission on immigration reform.”

2026 will determine the legacy of a historic 2025

By Jeremy Beck

The Laken Riley Act became the first bill to address enforcement failures to be passed by Congress on a bipartisan basis since the 2006 Secure Fence Act. Twenty years ago, the bipartisan support came from the likes of Senators Jeff Sessions (R-AL), John McCain (R-AZ), Joe Biden (D-DE), Hilary Clinton (D-NY) Barack Obama (D-IL), and Charles “Chuck” Schumer (D-NY).