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The Most Important Immigration Stories of 2025

DHS Doesn’t List CECOT Deportees in Its Worst of the Worst Data

Heritage Doesn’t Make Somebody an American

New Ban Bars 1 in 5 Legal Immigrants, Even Citizens’ Spouses & Kids

DOGE Took a Chainsaw to the Federal Workforce

DHS Classifies Just 4% of ICE Arrests as “the Worst”—Most for Nonviolent Offenses

The Garett Jones Curve: As Critiques Rise, Responses Fall

Afghan Terrorism Is a Small Threat in the United States

Census: Immigrant Share Grows More Slowly Than Any Decade Since the 1970s

New Data Prove DHS Lied About Cato Report on ICE

The Shallowness of Garett Jones’ Immigration Research

Background Information on Afghan Terrorists

5% of ICE Detainees Have Violent Convictions, 73% Have No Convictions

Immigration and Housing: An Epic Win-Win

We Let an Immigrant Live in Our Home

Did Trump's border proclamation stop illegal immigration?

Alex Responds to the Critics: Politically Motivated Terrorist Killings in the United States

Trump Proposes Ending Skilled Immigration with a $100,000 Fee on H-1B Visas

Immigrants Have Lower Lifetime Incarceration Rates Than Native-Born Americans

The DOJ Terrorism Report the Trump Administration Doesn't Want You to See

US Citizens Were 80% of All Convicted Drug Traffickers in 2024

Presidents Should Not Have a License to Kill

Politically Motivated Terrorist Killers

Politically Motivated Violence is Rare in the United States

The Economic Case for Mass Immigration Is as Strong as Ever

Immigrants Cut Victimization Rates, Boost Crime Reporting

Anti-Profiling Court Order Cuts LA ICE Arrests by 66 Percent

ICE Could Prevent Some of the Coming Corruption, Criminal, and Misconduct Scandals That Will Plague the Agency

Employer-Sponsored Green Card Processing Takes 3.4 Years, All-Time High

Quantifying the Profiling: 1/5 of ICE Arrests Are Street Arrests of Latinos with No Criminal Past or Removal Order

Testimony at House Hearing on Immigration Parole and Deportation

Ukrainian Refugees Probably Didn’t Reduce the Birth Rate in Czechia

Haitian Immigrants Have a Low Incarceration Rate

15 Minutes on ICE's Assault on America

ICE Is Arresting 1,100% More Noncriminals on the Streets Than in 2017

How to Make Congress Yell at You

65% of People Taken In By ICE Had No Convictions, 93% No Violent Convictions

A US Attack on Iran Could Cause the Largest Refugee Crisis in History

Trump’s Deportation Priorities Didn’t Shift, They Won’t Shift, and You Should Stop Falling for Rumors that They Will Shift

Nowrasteh Appears on The Bob Murphy Show

Deportations to Add Almost $1 Trillion in Costs to GOP’s “Big Beautiful Bill”

Trump’s Lawless, Baseless Immigration Ban

Trump Practically Bans Travel and Immigration from 12 Countries Based on Flimsy Security Justifications

Bob Murphy (Partly) Misses the Mark on My Immigration Debate with Dave Smith

Record Student Visa Denials Before Trump: 41% Rejected in 2024

The Historical Ratio Between Dropout and High School Graduate Wages

Dave Smith and Alex Nowrasteh Debated Immigration

50+ Venezuelans Imprisoned in El Salvador Came to the US Legally

Trump’s Afrikaner Refugees

Behold the Great American Immigration Thermostat

What If There Were More than 30 Million Illegal Immigrants?

Immigrants Have a Lower Incarceration Rate than Native-Born Americans

Why Is Trump So Intent on Sending Illegal Immigrant Noncriminals to Prison Camps in El Salvador?

US Citizens Don’t Have First Amendment Rights If Noncitizens Don’t

Risk Analysis of Mass Shootings Committed by Immigrants and Natives

Naturalized Immigrants Probably Voted Republican in 2024

Six Ways to Understand DOGE and Predict Its Future Behavior

A New, Discriminatory, and Arbitrary Legal Immigration System Is Coming

Coming Trump Travel Bans Will Seek to Exclude a Small Terrorist Threat

Immigrants Used Less Welfare than Native-Born Americans in 2022

The Trump Administration Shouldn’t Designate Drug Cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations

What Trump Has Done and Imminently Plans to Do on Immigration

Why Do Illegal Immigrants Have a Low Crime Rate?

The Case for MORE Immigration

The Indefinite Suspension of All Refugees Is Unjustified

Discussing Fertility with Dan Hess of "More Births"

There is No Good Reason to Revoke Birthright Citizenship

Diseased Illegal Immigrants Aren't "Invading" the United States

Trump Will Cut Legal Entries More Than Illegal Entries

Biden Didn't Cause the Border Crisis

Executive Orders the Trump Administration Should Revoke or Amend

Illegal Immigrants in Georgia Have a Low Incarceration Rate

The Best Books of 2024