Lesson- Immigration (Cato)

Since Joe Biden took office in 2021, his administration has acted on a number of fronts to reverse Trump-era restrictions on immigration.

Survey of the most important United States immigration laws, policies and court rulings since the founding of the country.

This was the first law to define eligibility for citizenship by naturalization and establish standards and procedures by which immigrants became US citizens. In this early version, Congress limited this important right to “free white persons.”

Activity: Immigration in the 1990s - Proposition 187 Background: How did demographic trends and a changing California economy in the 1990s create a backlash against immigration, only to be followed by another swing in the ideological pendulum? This lesson examines how economic and demographic for...

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The United States began regulating immigration soon after it won independence from Great Britain, and the laws since enacted have reflected the politics and migrant flows of the times. We looked at key immigration laws from 1790 to 2014.

Arguments against immigration come across my desk every day, but I rarely encounter a unique one. In 2016, I wrote a blog responding to the most common arguments with links to different research. Since then, academics and policy analysts have produced new research that should be included. These are the main arguments against immigration, my quick responses to them, and links to some of the most relevant evidence.

SCORE's data report series, The Megaphone of Main Street, fill a gap in existing small business research and help cultivate a more accurate understanding of the true state of today’s Main Street, USA.

Immigrants are heralds of growth, not portents of economic disaster.

In this webinar, you will learn the historical concepts of immigration, its push-pull factors, and the entrepreneurship of immigrants.

In the middle of harvest season, finding the labor to complete everything can be challenging.

The government’s restrictive criteria render legal paths of immigration available in only the most extreme cases.

When economists published revealing data about doctor salaries, the backlash was intense. Why? And why do doctors earn so much more in America than in other countries?