Forty years ago this month, Congress passed the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA), a law intended as a grand bargain.

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The Trump administration has awarded the New York-based non-profit International Rescue Committee (IRC) a $20 million contract to provide virtual professional advancement services to up to 1,334 ...

Based on Census Bureau data, we estimate that 13.5 million illegal immigrants live in the U.S. as of July 2026, down from 15.8 million when President Trump began his second term in January 2025. The ...

Since January 2025 when President Trump took office the government’s monthly household survey, officially called the Current Population Survey (CPS), shows an unprecedented 2.9 million decline in the ...

Without much fanfare, the U.S. Census Bureau released what it terms a “data product” bearing the anodyne headline “Noncitizen Voting in the 2020 Election, A Beginning Analysis”. It’s thick as a Chunky ...

In the 2024/25 academic year, students from India (363,019) and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) (265,919) made up 53 percent (India, 31 percent; PRC, 23 percent) of all foreign students ...

On Thursday, many Americans learned for the first time that the European Union (EU) shares a land border with Africa as 49,000 (mainly Moroccan male) migrants poured into Ceuta, a Spanish exclave on ...

This report examines welfare use (means-tested anti-poverty programs) for households headed by non-citizens by state using the 2021 to 2025 Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic ...

This report uses the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS ASEC) to examine welfare use (means-tested anti-poverty programs) for households headed by non-citizens in the ...

The respondent is Francis Jude Fortjoe, a national of Ghana who was admitted to the United States in 1995. In 2002, he married a U.S. citizen identified as “Emma”, and Emma filed an I-130, petition ...