Research, analysis, and commentary on immigration policy and cultural integration.
Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels founded New Braunfels in 1845 with 200 Germans on empty Texas frontier. The United States now admits 1.6 million immigrants per year into the metros Americans already built, and 77% of Americans can no longer afford the median-priced home in their own country.
Indian American households earn $152,000 a year - nearly double the $81,000 Caucasian American median. The H-1B pipeline built that gap, and the housing crisis in every major metro made it permanent.
The country added 32 million foreign-born residents since 1990 without building the housing, schools, or infrastructure to absorb them. Homeownership for Americans under 35 fell from 45% to 36.3%.
The administration will likely lose the birthright citizenship case at the Supreme Court. Executive action and congressional legislation can achieve the same practical outcome - if Congress acts before the midterms.
Santa Clara County went from 82% Caucasian in 1970 to 28% today. Two-thirds of its tech workers are foreign-born. This is America's future unless policy changes.
87% of those charged in Minnesota's $9 billion Medicaid fraud are Somali American. California lost $31 billion in unemployment fraud during the pandemic.
The Census counts illegal immigrants when distributing House seats, and CIS found that immigration-driven population growth transferred 26 of them from states that voted for Trump to states that didn't.
Every Indian American, Muslim American, and Chinese American member of Congress is a Democrat. These communities barely existed before the 1990 Immigration Act. Now they hold seats that determine the House majority.
The Census counts illegal immigrants when distributing House seats. CIS found immigration-driven growth shifted 26 seats between states - the overwhelming majority from Republican states to Democratic ones.
5.3 million public school students cannot speak English - up 152% since 1990. Schools spend $68 billion educating children of illegal immigrants.
In 2023, $98.3 billion left the United States as remittances. Only $7 billion flowed back in - a net loss of $91 billion sent to Mexico, India, China, and 130 other countries.
78 charged, 63 convicted, $250 million stolen from a child nutrition program. Federal prosecutors estimate $9 billion in fraud across 14 Minnesota state programs.
The US naturalization English test uses a 78-word vocabulary list and 93% pass on the first try. Meanwhile, 22.3 million immigrant adults have limited English proficiency.
In 1950, Casablanca was 50% European and Algiers had French-only quarters. Every colonized country eventually demanded demographic control. The principle applies universally.
Politicians say '1 million immigrants per year.' The real number is immigrant stock - foreign-born plus their US-born children - at 75.1 million, or 22.7% of the US population.
The 1924 Act cut immigration by 81%. Over the next 40 years, wages rose for four straight decades, Black American incomes rose 406%, and homeownership jumped 20 points.
Since 1990, 19 million foreign-born workers entered the labor force, real wages flatlined, and at least 20 major metros became unaffordable for the families who were there first.
The statute requires 'highly specialized knowledge.' 60% of H-1B workers are paid below the median wage for their occupation. They are competent engineers, not geniuses, earning $118,000 while the median American household makes $80,610.
In 1960, there were 12,000 Indian-born people in America. Today, India and China have sent 6.2 million foreign-born residents, and 84% of all H-1B visas go to nationals of those two countries.
Since 1990, the US added 32 million foreign-born residents concentrated in 20 metros. The national price-to-income ratio rose from 3.0x to 5.6x. In San Jose, 4x to 12x.
America passes major immigration legislation once every 30-40 years. The 1924 Act cut immigration 81% and produced four decades of growth. The 1990 Act tripled the foreign-born population.