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(The Center Square) – A witness testifying before Congress on Wednesday about the border crisis acknowledged he’d never been to the border, resulting in U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Arizona, raising

U.S. Census data shows the foreign-born population made up 13.9% of the total in 2022 and suggests it hit 15% last year.

The flow of illegal immigrants across the southern border has markedly increased over the last several years. In FY2021, Border Patrol had 1,659,206 encounters with illegal immigrants and other border crossers along the southwest land border, which grew to 2,206,436 in FY2022, and 2,045,838 in FY2023.

A new border law signed by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) picks a direct fight with federal authorities on a key constitutional question: Who gets to control Texas’s border, which is more than 1200 miles long? To most legal scholars, this is not a question at all: They hold that the authority rests with the…

USA Today has published my article (coauthored with Cato Institute immigration policy expert David Bier) on how Biden's border problems can be alleviated by…

A migrant influx tests U.S. cities’ capacity to respond. Yet a broader look at immigration trends tells a story more nuanced than “crisis” headlines.

An aging U.S. population presents real, but manageable, challenges—if we’re willing to act.

After surviving a perilous jungle, a mother and daughter obeyed the president’s plea to enter the United States legally. 341 days later, they’re still waiting.

They live in a rusty shack with no running water, hiding from the violence just outside their door, haunted by a question that won’t go away: Should they have listened to President Joe Biden? A year ago, Dayry Alexandra Cuauro and her 6-year-old daughter, Sarah, fled a crumbling Venezuela, setting off for the United States, carrying almost nothing. But they quickly lost each other, separated in a treacherous jungle known as the Darién Gap. For three terrifying days, Cuauro heaved her...

The Biden administration Monday rolled out a series of proposals to change how work visas are granted and what rights they convey to foreign nationals. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published the changes “to modernize and improve the efficiency of the H-1B program, add benefits and flexibilities, and improve integrity measures” in the Federal…