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Exaggerated threats of terrorists crossing the southern border lead to costly, disproportionate policy decisions.

Blogbeitrag#217. April 2024

Crime Rates, Not the Number of Crimes, Are a Better Way to Judge Immigrant Criminality

Focusing on crime rates rather than the number of crimes is essential to compare criminality between populations such as immigrants and native‐born Americans. Otherwise, there is no basis for arguing that one or the other is more criminally inclined.

Blogbeitrag#39. April 2024

Annual Chance of Being Murdered by a Foreign-Born Terrorist in an Attack Was 1 in 4.5 Million from 1975-2023

The annual chance of being murdered in a foreign‐born terrorist attack in the United States was about 1 in 4.5 million during the 1975–2023 period, according to my new policy analyst published by the Cato Institute. During that time, 230 foreign‐born terrorists murdered 3,046 people in attacks on US soil.

Blogbeitrag#46. März 2024

The Center for Immigration Studies Is Still Wrong About Illegal Immigrant Crime in Texas

Turns out that I was correct all along, and CIS was wrong. CIS overstates the illegal immigrant homicide rate by relying on data that double‐counted some illegal immigrant murderers.

Blogbeitrag#528. Februar 2024

Illegal Immigrants Have a Low Homicide Conviction Rate: Setting the Record Straight on Illegal Immigrant Crime

Legal immigrants still have the lowest homicide conviction rate at 1.1 per 100,000 legal immigrants. The illegal immigrant homicide conviction rate is 15 percent below the native‐born rate.

Blogbeitrag#62. Februar 2024

Illegal Border Crosser on Terror Watchlist Released by Border Patrol, Apprehended Later—What Do We Know?

The threat of terrorists entering illegally along the southwest border and planning or committing a domestic attack is minor, but it is not zero.

Blogbeitrag#727. Januar 2024

Explaining the Border Standoff Between Texas and the Federal Government

Not every serious problem is an invasion that requires the government to shoot people. I hope that Governor Abbott and President Biden tone down the rhetoric and de‐escalate this situation.

Blogbeitrag#811. Dezember 2023

Only 45 Percent of Employment-Based Green Cards Went to Workers in 2022

Instead of a separate green card category for the spouses and children of workers, those family members get a green card that would otherwise have gone to a skilled worker. This should change without reducing family‐based immigration.

Blogbeitrag#97. Dezember 2023

Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative by Jennifer Burns

The Economist put Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative on their Best Book of 2023 list for good reason.

Blogbeitrag#105. Dezember 2023

Don't Kill the Au Pair Program

Blog: Reason.com

Biden has proposed further regulating the federal au pair program, which will disproportionately burden highly skilled working mothers.

Blogbeitrag#1121. November 2023

New State Department Regulations Could End the Au Pair Program

If lower‐skilled migrants want to work for a wage higher than they could make in their home countries and if Americans want to hire them, both win.

Blogbeitrag#1216. November 2023

The US Labor Market Explains Most of the Increase in Illegal Immigration

The enforcement policies of the Bush and Biden administrations look like they had a similar effect on southwest Border Patrol flows, relative to the labor market.