More than 10,000 homes on the Navajo Nation, Hopi Tribe, and San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe still lack running water despite long-promised Colorado River water rights. As immigration-driven population growth increases demand across the Southwest, keeping those promises becomes more difficult.
America is investing billions to preserve farmland, yet development pressure continues to grow. Immigration-driven population growth increases demand for housing, making immigration policy an important part of any long-term farmland preservation strategy.
Immigration can strengthen Social Security’s finances in the short term, but relying on continually increasing immigration does not permanently resolve the program’s demographic challenges. This essay explores why sustainable reform should focus on the program itself.
By Jeremy Beck
Just before the Independence Day holiday, 45 House Republicans cosponsored Rep. G.T. Thompson’s bill to give amnesty to more than 600,000 illegal workers and grow the H-2A temporary visa program by a million people over the next decade.
By Jeremy Beck
The Supreme Court blocked the United States from joining nearly every other industrialized nation in ending automatic birthright citizenship for children of illegal aliens and tourists.
By Jeremy Beck
These two cases involve just some of the roughly 500,000 unaccompanied minors who were released into the U.S. during the Border Crisis.
By Jeremy Beck
The U.S. dairy industry is one of the largest in the world, and the Trump Administration just opened it up to an unlimited guestworker program.
The Swiss referendum demonstrated that population growth itself can be a legitimate public policy issue. Across the developed world, governments face growing pressure to balance immigration levels with housing, infrastructure, and environmental sustainability.
The frosted flatwoods salamander is one of America’s most imperiled amphibians. Scientists can breed endangered salamanders in captivity, but long-term recovery depends on preserving habitat. As immigration-driven population growth increases demand for housing and development, protecting that habitat becomes more difficult.
