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

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 ...

The Trump administration has awarded the New York-based non-profit International Rescue Committee (IRC) a $20 million contract to provide virtual professional advancement services to up to 1,334 ...

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 ...

The Center defines the term “sanctuary jurisdictions” as U.S. cities, counties, and states with: laws, ordinances, regulations, resolutions, policies, or other practices that obstruct immigration ...

It turns out President Trump’s promised “mass deportations” won’t require dragnets and cattle cars after all. This summer ICE racked up the largest numbers of arrests of illegal aliens ever recorded, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nearly 17,000 aliens filed petitions seeking U visa protections in the first six months of FY 2026, according to the latest statistics released by USCIS. Another 11,000 filed petitions as family ...

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 ...