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

UN-provided debit cards issued to immigrants in Reynosa, Mexico, in late 2021. Photo by Todd Bensman. AUSTIN, Texas — As the Center for Immigration Studies recently reported, a United Nations-led ...

The foreign-born or immigrant population (legal and illegal) hit new record highs in March 2024 of 51.6 million and 15.6 percent of the total U.S. population. Since March 2022 the foreign-born ...

Download a PDF of this Backgrounder. An Excel file with information on all occupations is available here. Steven A. Camarota is the director of research and Karen Zeigler is a demographer at the ...

For three years the Biden administration has claimed that its policies are designed to focus on criminal aliens to a greater degree than the policies under the Trump administration. As DHS Secretary ...

The Biden administration has appointed a new chief of staff at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Michael D. Lumpkin, who has more than 20 years of active duty military service as a U.S.

AUSTIN, Texas — Early on in America’s historic border crisis, now entering its fourth record-smashing year, some Republican lawmakers named a significant enabling culprit other than the usual Mexican ...

Analysis of the raw data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) household survey, officially called the Current Population Survey (CPS), shows an unprecedented 2.2 million decline in the total ...

Thanks to fraud revelations and ICE Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota, the Somali community in the United States has come under extended media scrutiny and become the focal point of political debates ...

Within-Year Growth in Native Employment. In the technical supplement below we discuss the complexities of the survey’s weighting scheme, which is revised each January, and other limitations of the ...

CBP yesterday released its statistics on the number of encounters its Border Patrol agents and officers made in the month of August. Illegal migrant apprehensions rose slightly last month, but 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 ...