• VISA VETTING9/11’s Visa Vetting Failures Were Fixed

    By David J. Bier

    Fortunately, the visa vetting system which failed to stop the 19 hijackers from receiving temporary nonimmigrant visas to travel to the United States has been improved, and vetting failures have become far less frequent after the attacks. Unfortunately, the most lasting immigration legacy of 9/11 is how it derailed bipartisan efforts to improve the legal immigration system for peaceful, productive immigrants, students, and travelers.

  • DEPORTATIONSExile by Agreement: Guyana and U.S. Expansion of Third-Country Deportations

    On September 5, Guyana received six people expelled from the United States who were not Guyanese. There are many questions yet to be answered about the Guyana case, and the answers to these questions will determine whether Guyana’s arrangement is a temporary humanitarian placement with real legal protections, or a new outpost in an expanding system of globalized deportation.

  • IMMIGRATIONImmigration in Sweden: How the Country Went from One of Europe’s Most Welcoming, to One of Its Most Restrictive

    By Henrik Emilsson

    For decades, Sweden was known as one of Europe’s most welcoming countries for refugees. It took pride in pursuing one of Europe’s most generous asylum policies, and often presented itself as a humanitarian role model. But today it has one of the continent’s most restrictive migration policies.

  • IMMIGRATIONDHS Disputes Report on Immigration Enforcement Impact

    By Jim Talamonti, The Center Square

    Researchers say heightened federal immigration enforcement corresponded with about $1.26 billion in foregone retail and restaurant activity in Cook County, but the U.S. Department of Homeland Security dismissed the correlation between a good economy and illegal immigration.

  • ICETrump’s DOJ Blocked Serious ICE Shooting Charge Over Federal Prosecutor’s “Strongest Possible” Objections

    By Megan Rose and Andy Mannix

    A prosecutor planned to file civil rights charges — similar to those brought against the officers who killed George Floyd — against an ICE agent. In an email we exclusively obtained, he reveals that Trump officials quashed those plans.

  • DEPORTATIONSWhere Have the Workers Gone? 2 Million Foreign-Born Men Have Left the Country, Analysis Says

    By Marty Schladen

    Economists, policymakers and journalists have been puzzling over why so many workers between 25 and 54 have been leaving the labor force over the past two years. Happening amid President Donald Trump’s mass deportations, many were probably forced to leave.

  • THE AMERICASTrump’s 75-Country Visa Ban: The Caribbean Caught in a Broad Immigration Crackdown

    The Trump administration’s decision to suspend immigrant-visa processing for citizens of 75 countries was struck down by a federal judge in New York, who found that the administration had exceeded the authority Congress gave the State Department and had unlawfully replaced individualized visa decisions with a blanket rule based on nationality.

  • REFUGEESRefugee Admissions on Track to Hit Record Low

    By Shalina Chatlani

    The U.S. has admitted 10,258 refugees — nearly all of them white South Africans — in the first 10 months of the fiscal year, which ends on Sept. 30.

  • IMMIGRATION & CRIMELarge-Scale Study Finds No Link Between Crime and Unauthorized Immigration

    By Mimi Ko Cruz

    One of America’s most politically charged questions is: does immigration drive crime? Now, one of the most geographically detailed studies of its kind ever conducted has an answer: unauthorized immigration does not drive crime rates in U.S. neighborhoods.

  • IMMIGRATIONImmigration Enforcement: More Than 175,000 Visas Revoked in 20 Months

    By Bethany Blankley, The Center Square

    In roughly 20 months, the U.S. State Department has revoked more than 175,000 visas of foreign nationals who “violated the terms of their visas, committed crimes, called for violence against U.S. citizens, defrauded Americans, abused the immigration system or endangered national security,” the State Department announced. 

  • DEPORTATIONSWith New Tactics, ICE Reaches New High in Monthly Arrests

    By Tim Henderson

    Federal immigration agents are employing new tactics — from arresting academics at airports to setting up a checkpoint at a popular creek in a National Forest — to boost their arrest numbers, leading to a new high of 51,000 arrested immigrants in July.

  • AI GOVERNANCEImmigration as a Test Case for Executive AI Governance

    By Camille J. Mackler

    DHS deploys AI in immigration enforcement largely untested, undisclosed, and unreviewed, a preview of how AI could reshape executive power. DHS deploys AI in immigration enforcement largely untested, undisclosed, and unreviewed, a preview of how AI could reshape executive power. These systems are being developed and normalized first on noncitizens before expanding to all. DHS is now deploying artificial intelligence (AI) systems that already exhibit many of the governance problems AI scholars warn could emerge as more capable systems enter government.

  • IMMIGRATIONTrump Official Urges Governors to Help with Immigration Arrests of “Worst of the Worst”

    By Kevin Hardy

    The nation’s top immigration official said arrests would prove safer with the cooperation of city and state law enforcement.

  • IMMIGRATIONBipartisan Bill to Let States Sponsor Foreign Workers

    By David J. Bier

    The State-Sponsored Visa Pilot Program Act is a rare thing in immigration policy: a genuinely federalist reform that lets Washington’s one-size-fits-all approach give way to 50 different answers to 50 different labor markets. 

  • MIGRATIONCeuta’s Border Crisis and Europe’s Migration Paradox

    The continent may be seeing fewer irregular crossings overall, but it remains vulnerable to dramatic local shocks. As long as the EU combines a formal commitment to free movement with uneven external control and strong procedural protections, border crises like Ceuta will continue to expose the system’s contradictions.