By Jeremy Beck
These insane ideas would supercharge a mass immigration surge even worse than the 2021-2025 border crisis. They show no regard for the millions of Americans who want a full-time job but can’t find one — or for the tens of millions who are stranded outside the labor force. These bills would bury them.
By Jeremy Beck
Every rule Trump signs, a future president can erase. The blueprint for lasting immigration reform already exists.
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
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
By Jeremy Beck
The actions of these state legislatures, combined with the inaction of Congress, are a gift to smugglers, traffickers and cartels who build their multi-billion-dollar industry on one simple message: the risk will be worth it.
By Joe Jenkins
Three recent pieces of writing – a New York Times column by Binyamin Appelbaum, a New York Times guest essay by Johns Hopkins economist Jonas Nahm, and a newsletter from American Compass by Oren Cass and Daniel Kishi – converge on a conclusion that should reshape how Americans think about immigration policy: mass immigration is … Continued
By Jeremy Beck
On December 16, 2005 – twenty years ago today – the House of Representatives passed H.R. 4437, the Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005, by a vote of 239-182. The legislation included mandatory use of the E-Verify system (phased in over two years), construction of 700 miles of reinforced border fencing, … Continued
Will Colorado politicians continue to support open borders and sanctuary policies, and will Colorado voters support them? Or will the pendulum swing back toward enforcement of our immigration laws and reasonable immigration numbers? Let’s hope it’s the latter
By Andre Barnes
A response to Travis Claybrooks’s op-ed, “Why Black America can’t be silent on ICE arrests and deportations” in the publication The Tennessean In his May 21st, 2025 opinion editorial for the The Tennessean, Travis Claybrooks tries to paint a portrait of fear and abuse from ICE toward illegal aliens, and encourages Black Americans not to … Continued
