For more than a century, innumerable studies have confirmed two simple yet powerful truths
about the relationship between immigration and crime: immigrants are less likely to commit …

The United States and the colonial society that preceded it were created by successive
waves of immigration from all corners of the globe. But public and political attitudes towards …

Data obtained by the American Immigration Council shine a light on the lack of accountability
and transparency which afflicts the US Border Patrol and its parent agency, US Customs …

For the last two decades, the guiding strategy of immigration enforcement along the US-Mexico
border has been “prevention through deterrence,” or stopping unauthorized immigrants …

Since its creation in 1924, the US Border Patrol has been steeped in institutional racism and
has committed violent acts with near impunity. The racial animus of US immigration policy in …

US immigration policy is based on denial. Most lawmakers in the United States have largely
embraced the process of economic" globalization," yet stubbornly refuse to acknowledge …

The United States needs a new immigration policy that is based less on wishful thinking and
more on realism. Spending vast sums of money trying to enforce arbitrary numerical limits …

Since 9/11 the watchword in the debate over immigration reform has been" security." As a
result, most policymakers and pundits now approach the subject of immigration largely from a …

Walter A. Ewing, Ph. D., is the Senior Researcher at the American Immigration Council. He
has authored or co-authored numerous publications on the role of immigrants in the US …

A recent report from the Heritage Foundation is one in a long line of deeply flawed economic
analyses which claim to estimate the contributions and “costs” of workers based solely on …