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Immigration and US Labor Market Outcome
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Welcoming Immigrants Is a Good Start; We Must Recognize Them, Too
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Lessons from Liberalism: Insights for the Current Immigration Debate
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Lessons From Liberalism: Insights for the Current Immigration Debate
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How Portraits Can Change Immigration Policy
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Two Incremental Steps Toward Fixing Our Broken Immigration System
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Book Review: Restricting Immigration Harms Everyone
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How Immigration Reform Would Affect Economic Growth
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The UAE Must Cherry Pick Elite Teen Mathematicians to Get Ahead of the Curve
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Unintended Consequences of Restrictions on H-1B Visas
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Joe Biden’s Looming Legitimacy Crisis (and What He Can Do About It)
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More Immigration Needed to Offset COVID-19 and America’s Demographic Decline
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Coming to America: Finally Fixing Illegal Immigration
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Coming to America: Finally Fixing Legal Immigration
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The Administration Takes Another Swipe at Merit-Based Immigration
DHS’s new rule on international student visas is harmful to US higher education as well as the country’s economy

Latest work in Immigration
- | Working Papers Working Papers
Immigration and US Labor Market Outcome
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Welcoming Immigrants Is a Good Start; We Must Recognize Them, Too
- | Mercatus Original Podcasts Mercatus Original Podcasts
- | Mercatus Policy Download Mercatus Policy Download
Lessons from Liberalism: Insights for the Current Immigration Debate
- | Mercatus Original Podcasts Mercatus Original Podcasts
- | Mercatus Policy Download Mercatus Policy Download
Lessons From Liberalism: Insights for the Current Immigration Debate
- | International Freedom and Trade International Freedom and Trade
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
How Portraits Can Change Immigration Policy
- | International Freedom and Trade International Freedom and Trade
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Two Incremental Steps Toward Fixing Our Broken Immigration System
- | International Freedom and Trade International Freedom and Trade
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Book Review: Restricting Immigration Harms Everyone
- | International Freedom and Trade International Freedom and Trade
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
How Immigration Reform Would Affect Economic Growth
- | International Freedom and Trade International Freedom and Trade
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
The UAE Must Cherry Pick Elite Teen Mathematicians to Get Ahead of the Curve
- | International Freedom and Trade International Freedom and Trade
- | Policy Briefs Policy Briefs
Unintended Consequences of Restrictions on H-1B Visas
- | Regulation Regulation
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Joe Biden’s Looming Legitimacy Crisis (and What He Can Do About It)
- | International Freedom and Trade International Freedom and Trade
- | Policy Briefs Policy Briefs
More Immigration Needed to Offset COVID-19 and America’s Demographic Decline
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Coming to America: Finally Fixing Illegal Immigration
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Coming to America: Finally Fixing Legal Immigration
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
The Administration Takes Another Swipe at Merit-Based Immigration
DHS’s new rule on international student visas is harmful to US higher education as well as the country’s economy

Latest work in Immigration
Latest work in Immigration
Latest work in Immigration
Latest work in Immigration
- | International Freedom and Trade International Freedom and Trade
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Two Incremental Steps Toward Fixing Our Broken Immigration System
- | International Freedom and Trade International Freedom and Trade
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Book Review: Restricting Immigration Harms Everyone
- | International Freedom and Trade International Freedom and Trade
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
How Immigration Reform Would Affect Economic Growth
- | International Freedom and Trade International Freedom and Trade
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
The UAE Must Cherry Pick Elite Teen Mathematicians to Get Ahead of the Curve
- | Regulation Regulation
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Joe Biden’s Looming Legitimacy Crisis (and What He Can Do About It)
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Coming to America: Finally Fixing Illegal Immigration
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Coming to America: Finally Fixing Legal Immigration
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
The Administration Takes Another Swipe at Merit-Based Immigration
DHS’s new rule on international student visas is harmful to US higher education as well as the country’s economy

- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Going Mobile
The ability to move freely between communities, states, and countries leads to greater freedom and prosperity

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A Self-Inflicted Wound
Trump’s new rule on student visas will be costly to US higher education and technological leadership

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Voting With Our Feet
In his new book, Free to Move, Ilya Somin makes the case for enhanced human mobility

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Our Immigration System Is About to Stall
Congress needs to restore financial solvency to the US Citizenship and Immigration Service

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Our Immigration System Is About to Stall
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To Fight COVID-19 and Rebuild the Economy, Welcome Immigrants
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Trump Temporary Suspension of Green Cards is Largely Symbolic
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Immigration Will Be Another Casualty of the Coronavirus
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Illustrating the Case for Unrestricted Immigration
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A compromise in plain sight: Legalize Dreamers and provide more wall funding
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Will America Continue to Compete for Skilled Labor?
Educated, high-skilled immigrants don’t take jobs from other Americans—they fill in gaps or innovate in ways that stimulate America’s economy, leading to more employment opportunities.