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Blog Entry#2June 7, 2024

David Boaz Gave Liberty a Bright Future

Boaz's mere existence at Cato was a constant reminder to elevate your work to the loftiness of his standards and to remember the deeper purpose of why we write: not for citations or clicks or even academic curiosity, but to respectably represent the cause of liberty.

Blog Entry#3June 4, 2024

Biden's Unlawful Border Executive Order Is Bad Policy

President Biden should not be ignoring US laws. He should not be seeking to stop people from coming to the United States. Instead, he should be working to let them enter this country legally and orderly so they can contribute to it.

Blog Entry#4May 24, 2024

America's Third Founding: May 24, 1924, the Immigration Act of 1924

It was a choice to make immigration illegal. It is a choice to keep it illegal. America should reject its un‐American third founding and restore the laws governing immigration to the ones our founders gave us: a presumption of liberty. A century of arbitrary immigration restriction is too long.

Blog Entry#5May 2, 2024

Employer-Sponsored Green Card Processing Takes Over Three Years

It is time for the US government to radically streamline its immigration system and eliminate unnecessary, burdensome procedures.

Blog Entry#6May 1, 2024

H-1B Visa Lottery Results Announced: Three-Quarters Rejected

The longer Congress waits, the worse the situation becomes. Talent will increasingly flock to countries like Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, Germany, India, China, and others that would welcome these workers.

Blog Entry#7April 30, 2024

DOL Must Update Its Shortage Occupation List to Streamline Green Cards

DOL must immediately address its permanent labor certification processing and expand Schedule A.

Blog Entry#8April 16, 2024

Not Indentured: Most New H-1B Hires Are Changing Jobs

The fact is that the government has wrongly unleveled the playing field for H‑1B workers by erecting artificial barriers to job change, but options exist to find better employment within the H‑1B system.

Blog Entry#9April 12, 2024

ICE Is Releasing Fewer Criminals Than Under Trump

Every minute that ICE or CBP wastes on pursuing someone seeking to work here is a minute they are not pursuing someone who may threaten the public. To end these wasteful practices, America should rethink its immigration system to provide legal ways for people to come to and work in this country.

Blog Entry#10March 19, 2024

A Record Quarter of a Million International Students Denied Visas, 36 Percent of Applicants

The United States should not pass on tens of billions of dollars in economic activity from these students just because they memorized their "elevator pitch" on why they want to study computer science in Kansas. It's totally irrelevant.

Blog Entry#11March 4, 2024

Border Patrol: 70 Percent Drop in Successful Evasions Since Title 42 Ended

Ending Title 42 improved border security and reduced successful illegal entries. This should force the many members of Congress and the administration who opposed ending Title 42 to rethink their position.

Blog Entry#12February 23, 2024

List of 120+ Biden Actions to Help Try To 'Shut the Border'

The Biden administration should review this list of 120+ failed actions and reconsider potential new actions that will just try more of the same. It should instead focus on the successful actions that have effectively reopened the border to legal migration.

Blog Entry#13February 15, 2024

New Paper: Only 3 Percent of Green Card Applicants Will Get Approved in 2024

The United States is growing more slowly than at any point in its history—if immigrants enter through a legal and orderly process, the US can handle a much larger immigrant population.

Blog Entry#14February 6, 2024

Senate Immigration Deal Is a Mixed Bag

The biggest issue is the astounding sums that the bill appropriates outside of the appropriations process to fund fast‐tracked deportations and expulsions.