Research, analysis, and commentary on immigration policy and cultural integration.
Legal immigration entries are estimated to be ~575,000 in 2026, an approximate 50% cut from the 2024 high of 1.36 million. Legal immigration is being addressed solely by the Executive Branch, while nothing changes in Congress.
British voters chose to leave the European Union in 2016 largely to reduce immigration. Years later, immigration has never been reduced.
The Trump administration will likely lose the birthright citizenship case at the Supreme Court. A combination of executive action and congressional legislation can achieve the same practical outcome.
The H-1B program admits roughly 400,000 foreign workers per year into U.S. professional jobs at sub-median wages. The structural costs to American workers, the housing market, and the domestic STEM pipeline are documented. The substantive policy goal is full repeal, OPT elimination, and revocation of H-1B status for any current holder with less than five years of U.S. residence.
Foreign buyers purchased an average of 100,000 existing U.S. homes worth $56B a year from 2020 to 2024, and foreign owners hold 46M acres of U.S. farmland. Federal law requires disclosure but prohibits no purchase.
The 1890-1924 wave pushed Lower East Side density past 334,000 people per square mile and held unskilled wages flat for fifteen years. The 1924 Act cut immigration roughly 80%, and the next four decades produced rising wages, falling rents, and full assimilation of the immigrants already here.
When we hear about '1 million immigrants per year,' we forget that the more important number is immigrant stock - foreign-born plus their US-born children.
The H-1B Visa was meant for irreplaceable talent. Instead 60% of H-1B jobs are certified below the median wage and 72% go to one country, feeding cheap labor into the most expensive American cities.
Since 1990, the US added 32 million foreign-born residents concentrated in the largest metros. In the biggest immigrant gateways a home costs five to nine times income, against about three times where few immigrants settled.
Congress has not passed comprehensive immigration legislation since 1990. Annual admissions have run above one million for thirty-five years, and the foreign-born share has doubled from 7.9% to 15.8%.