By Joe Jenkins
On September 29, the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general released an audit of how ICE handled visa overstays from fiscal years 2021 through 2024. For most of that period, ICE worked under a September 2021 policy memo that told it to pursue only the overstays who posed the highest threat to national security or … Continued
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.
By Jeremy Beck
Abolishing ICE would be a radical step toward open borders. Tackling the border crisis with ICE alone is an unsustainable strategy. But these aren’t the only two options. The entire burden of the border crisis cannot be placed on the shoulders of the men and women of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. We have to take the illegal jobs away to encourage more people to return home on their own.
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.
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.
