Voting Resources
Alex Nowrasteh
May 29th, 2025
In a 2003 paper, economist George Borjas used an innovative method to controversially find that immigration had a negative effect on the relative wages of native-born workers who compete with immigrants, especially...
February 20th, 2025
Coauthored with Jerome Famularo.
November 7th, 2024
My colleagues and I have spent much time addressing the arguments raised by those who favor further restricting legal immigration to the United States.
September 5th, 2024
In January 2023, President Biden created a humanitarian parole program for Cubans, Venezuelans, Nicaraguans, and Haitians that allowed Americans to sponsor up to 30,000 citizens of those countries a month. According to...
July 18th, 2024
Donald Trump is likely to be elected president again in the 2024 election. His chances have risen precipitously over the last year for several reasons that economist and columnist Tyler Cowen outlines here.
June 27th, 2024
Crime committed by illegal immigrants is an important and contentious public policy issue, but it is notoriously difficult to measure and compare their criminal conviction rates with those of other groups such as legal...
April 11th, 2024
Political debate in the modern world is only possible after memorizing a list of euphemisms, and there is no shortage of public opprobrium for those who talk about certain topics without using them.
January 4th, 2024
The flow of illegal immigrants across the southern border has markedly increased over the last several years. In FY2021, Border Patrol had 1,659,206 encounters with illegal immigrants and other border crossers along the...
August 22nd, 2023
The Cato Institute is launching a new online game called the Green Card Game. Americans will—for the first time—see firsthand what it’s like to try to get a green card, or permanent residence, in the United States
March 23rd, 2023
Government spending in the United States is enormous. Federal and state governments spent over $9 trillion in 2022 on the welfare state, defense, health care, education, and other areas. Taxes and borrowing fund that...
May 22nd, 2025
Vice President JD Vance and a collection of online conservative commentators have argued that, as president, Joe Biden let in 20 or 30 million illegal immigrants, swelling their population to 30–50 million.
January 9th, 2025
Democrats, liberals, and Never Trumpers are filling opinion pages of major magazines and newspapers with explanations of why Kamala Harris lost the 2024 presidential election to Donald Trump.
October 31st, 2024
California politics began to shift in the 1990s to such a degree that the state turned into a Democratic stronghold by the early 2000s and has remained so until today. Immigration restrictionists often blame that political...
August 15th, 2024
President Joe Biden's Department of Homeland Security (DHS) paused a key component of its immigration agenda last week, which allowed immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela to enter and work legally in the...
July 11th, 2024
Since the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) came into force, it has been against the law for illegal immigrants to work in the United States.
June 6th, 2024
Thomas Sowell is an influential and prolific writer whose books span the social sciences. My shelves are full of them, decorated with underlines, marginalia, and dog‐eared pages.
February 1st, 2024
The US Border Patrol had over 6.3 million encounters with illegal immigrant border crossers from the beginning of the Biden administration in January 2021 to December 2023.
October 5th, 2023
The recent Supreme Court case about affirmative action in university admissions (SFFA v. Harvard) paralleled a broader social debate over meritocracy.
March 30th, 2023
From December 2022 to February 2023, encounters of migrants crossing the southwest (SW) border with Mexico are down 39 percent. President Biden’s immigration and border plan that expanded legal migration to the United States...
February 23rd, 2023
The total number of encounters along the southwest (SW) border with Mexico dropped by 37.9 percent in the month following President Biden’s new immigration and border plan. President Biden framed his plan as an immigration...
