By Roy Beck
GEORGETOWN, OHIO – I’m taking my just-released book on a tour of historic sites of Ohio’s 8 Presidents.
All played roles in the book’s long-neglected and mostly forgotten history of why the Civil War Emancipations failed to liberate around 90% of Black Freedmen and their descendants from economic bondage for another half-century.
From California’s disappearing open spaces to Arizona’s shrinking water supplies and America’s housing affordability challenges, recent developments underscore the importance of considering federal immigration policy in environmental and economic policy. Americans are increasingly concerned about housing costs, water availability, and the loss of natural landscapes to development. Although these issues are often treated separately, they … Continued
By Joe Jenkins
On Oct. 22, the Associated Press reported on a Migration Policy Institute estimate of deportations under the second Trump administration. “The numbers fall short of previous highs in the early 2000s.” The comparison ran everywhere the story did. The administration’s 660,000 deportations in fiscal 2026 sat “well below the 1.86 million deportations recorded in 2000.” … Continued
By Jeremy Beck
A migrant caravan hundreds strong is heading toward the U.S. border. Its members hope to enter the United States and find work—either illegally or by applying for asylum and obtaining work permits, as many migrants did during the 2021–2025 border surge. Want to know which Members of Congress are serious about discouraging future caravans?
By Joe Jenkins
On Oct. 7, The Washington Post reported from the Rio Grande Valley on the impact immigration enforcement is having on the construction industry. “A sharp uptick in arrests by federal agents has taken undocumented immigrants out of local labor forces that depend on them, from construction sites in new subdivisions – building permits are down … Continued
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
By Jeremy Beck
Your Senators now have a bill that would end chain migration and the visa lottery. Sen. Tommy Tuberville introduced the Americans First Immigration Act (S. 5485) this week. The bill would modernize immigration by replacing a system built on luck with an intentional merit-based program that requires employers to prioritize American workers and the rule … 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.
