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A nonpartisan research organization focused on #immigration, international #trade and other issues related to #globalization and the economy.
While policies toward illegal #immigration have gained the most attention, the Trump admin has also taken initial steps to reduce legal immigration. Based on his first term, other actions, such as a new travel ban and public charge rule, are on the way. forbes.com/sites/stuartan…
Religious visitation of detainees being denied at “Alligator Alcatraz,” despite pleas from both Catholic & evangelicals leaders tallahassee.com/story/opinion/…
Sunday PM about 25 Knights on Bikes stopped at entrance of Alligator Alcatraz and prayed a rosary for the detainees. Archdiocese is still waiting for approval to access to provide Mass for detainees
The Exception that Disproves the Rule: How Matter of K-E-S-G-‘s FGM Exception Exposes Its Incoherence | The Insightful Immigration Blog blog.cyrusmehta.com/2025/07/the-ex…
🧵Some comments on U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer's recent error-filled speech on reindustrialization. It is so bad, it is almost like his speechwriters were attempting to sabotage him. Let's go!
BREAKING: 4th Circuit lifts admin stay, lets Trump proceed with cancellation of temporary protected status for Afghans & Cameroonians. But appeals panel says advocates appear to have plausible case decision was preordained. Doc: documentcloud.org/documents/2601… #TPS
There is a temptation to try to "optimize" H1B visas but: —Why ration when the scarcity is artificial? Increase the number of visas. —The highest paid person might NOT be the person most valuable for the US economy in the long run. Both early career scientists and people from…
The Trump admin will propose a new way to distribute H-1B visas, likely wage-based, making it less likely international students can obtain H-1B status. As with ending OPT, the policy aims to sever the U.S. immigrant talent pipeline. @David_J_Bier @SIIA_US forbes.com/sites/stuartan…
CLINIC Condemns Decision Restricting Asylum Protections for Women Fleeing Gender-Based Persecution cliniclegal.org/press-releases…
A new report describes dehumanizing treatment in South Florida ICE detention centers. "We had to bend over and eat off the chairs with our mouths, like dogs." reason.com/2025/07/21/rep…
The Trump admin will propose a new way to distribute H-1B visas, likely wage-based, making it less likely international students can obtain H-1B status. As with ending OPT, the policy aims to sever the U.S. immigrant talent pipeline. @David_J_Bier @SIIA_US forbes.com/sites/stuartan…
The Trump administration is spending $130,000 to burn $800,000 worth of food meant for hungry children. Read more: reason.pub/4100XO1
ICE Agents Are Harassing the Courthouse Volunteers Who Assist Besieged Immigrants – Mother Jones motherjones.com/politics/2025/…
5/ Recall that before Trump became president he was urging the Fed NOT to cut rates, much as he urged Congress not to raise the debt ceiling or pass immigration reform, so as not to help Biden. thehill.com/business/44441… cnbc.com/2023/05/11/tru… nbcnews.com/politics/congr…
Yes, he’s a citizen. Yes he’s a veteran. Yes he just happened to be driving to work. ICE detained him anyway. msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/-t…
Key figure from the paper:
California's $20 fast food minimum wage reduced employment by 3.2 percent (roughly 18,000 jobs) over the first year since its enactment, from @jeffreypclemens, Olivia Edwards, and Jonathan Meer nber.org/papers/w34033
1/ If Trump forces Powell out, markets could no longer assume Fed will hit 2% inflation no matter what. Inflation would be subordinated to White House's larger agenda. No longer the brakes, the Fed would be part of the engine. My column: wsj.com/economy/centra…
My husband was freed. But over 1,100 political prisoners remain in Belarus. Lukashenka wants to trick the West into thinking he’s changing. But he’s still Putin’s puppet, and repression hasn't stopped. Thanks to @LeoCendro & @theipaper for the interview. inews.co.uk/news/world/put…
➡️ ICYMI Trump’s Trade Representative just confessed the administration’s support for taxpayer subsidies and a government-directed economy as the road to success. Very misguided if you ask me.
First interview I’ve seen with a released CECOT detainee. “We were kidnapped. We got a beating for breakfast. We got a beating for lunch. We got a beating for dinner.”
Link here: motherjones.com/politics/2025/…
Many of the people in CECOT may be able to file lawsuits challenging their illegal deportations and get judges to require the US to facilitate their return to seek asylum, which they were denied an opportunity to seek before.
Reminder: many of the disappeared were in the middle of asylum proceedings and it appears they are being sent back to place they fled in violation of US & intl protection laws. Because they were denied due process, we have no idea just how dangerous these returns may be for them.
This is the end. The Nord Stream saga is finally over for good, 20 years after it was launched by Schröder and Putin.
To justify new restrictions, the Trump admin has cited a flawed DHS overstay report that lists as overstays many individuals who changed their status within the US or already left. Many country rates in the report are meaningless. @David_J_Bier @gsiskind forbes.com/sites/stuartan…
