Forty years ago this month, Congress passed the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA), a law intended as a grand bargain.

Visa overstays are a significant and often overlooked contributor to illegal immigration. The Biden administration was heavily criticized for delaying the release of overstay data, and when DHS ...

Based on Census Bureau data, we estimate that 13.5 million illegal immigrants live in the U.S. as of July 2026, down from 15.8 million when President Trump began his second term in January 2025. The ...

In 1996, Congress rewrote a key provision in the INA that governs how immigration officers are to inspect, expel, deport, and (most importantly for this matter) detain or release aliens who arrive in ...

The number of illegal aliens in the United States dropped by about 15 percent, to 13.5 million, during the first year and half of the Trump administration, according to a study by the Center for ...

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When the definitive history of Joe Biden’s presidency is written, it will likely conclude that his most important legacy was unprecedented immigration levels. The U.S. foreign-born population (legal ...

The term “aggravated felony”, defined in section 101(a)(43) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), covers some 30 separate crimes Congress considers so serious that aliens who commit them are ...

A Department of Justice administrative law judge has issued an opinion that in a very real sense has erected a wall separating American citizens from American jobs. He ruled that an employer can ...

Recent federal regulatory actions against IT giant Cognizant – highlighted by the U.S. Department of Labor suspending its Permanent Labor Certification (PERM) filings for green cards amid fraud ...

On September 16, CBP released its “Nationwide Encounters” statistics, its year-to-date (through August 31) recap of the number of illegal migrants apprehended by Border Patrol and “applicants for ...

The Trump administration recently expanded the eligibility period of the Refugee Cash Assistance (RCA) and Refugee Medical Assistance (RMA) programs available to all refugees and other Office of ...