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Illegal Immigration
April 3rd, 2025
The state Senate on Tuesday passed a proposal that would require some Texas sheriffs to enter into agreements with the federal government to help identify undocumented immigrants accused of crimes.
February 14th, 2025
Human trafficking is not a distant, overseas issue—it’s happening right here in our communities, across rural towns and major cities in America. According to the National Human Trafficking Hotline, there were over 9,000...
January 30th, 2025
U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) released the following statement after President Trump signed the Laken Riley Act, which requires U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to arrest and detain migrants who...
September 29th, 2022
“Migrants used to run from us. Now they run to us.”This is the new reality for Border Patrol agents who are on the front lines of America’s unprecedented border crisis.
May 5th, 2022
A recent Tucker Carlson segment argued that the increase of illegal immigrants coming across the border in recent years caused the rise in homicides in Houston, Texas. Using crime data given to me by the Texas Department of...
December 28th, 2021
In historical perspective, the percent of criminal individuals apprehended by Border Patrol is low at about 1 percent in 2021.
March 25th, 2021
I have been sounding the alarm for weeks urging the Biden Administration to take this crisis seriously. I hope these photos finally wake them up.
February 10th, 2021
Over the last week, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents have seen the average daily flow of migrants soar to more than 3,500 migrants, up from 2,000 earlier last month. CBP hasn’t seen numbers like this since the...
September 14th, 2020
Center for Houston’s Future hosted a conversation with Loren Steffy about his new book with Stan Marek, Deconstructed: An Insider’s View of Illegal Immigration and the Building Trades.
September 3rd, 2020
On a recent Rational Middle podcast, Executive Producer Loren Steffy spoke with Mark Erlich, a Wertheim Fellow of Research on Misclassification and the Underground Economy at the Harvard Law School and former
March 6th, 2025
May I suggest additional strategies to reduce the pull factor that encourages innocent people to pay criminals and risk their lives for a longshot chance at a better one? Go after employers who exploit undocumented migrants...
February 13th, 2025
Congressman Michael Cloud (R-TX) introduced the 287(g) Program Protection Act, a bill to help state and local law enforcement work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to detain and deport...
January 9th, 2025
Democrats, liberals, and Never Trumpers are filling opinion pages of major magazines and newspapers with explanations of why Kamala Harris lost the 2024 presidential election to Donald Trump.
July 28th, 2022
The flow of illegal immigrants across the southern border has markedly risen over the last several years. In FY2021, Border Patrol had 1,662,167 encounters with illegal immigrants and other border crossers. So far in FY2022...
December 30th, 2021
2022 presents an opportunity for incumbent lawmakers to prove to their constituents that they are interested in and capable of fixing the immigration system in a way that benefit Americans and the US economy ahead of midterm...
March 25th, 2021
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told members of the House Judiciary Committee that releasing migrants into Texas border communities without testing them for COVID-19 was a mistake.
February 24th, 2021
National conservatives have latched onto the idea that cutting immigration will increase wages despite all
January 20th, 2021
Recent news reports suggest that Joe Biden will propose a s
September 8th, 2020
On a Monday morning in 2009, the phone chirped on Stan Marek’s desk, and he snapped up the receiver.
September 2nd, 2020
Please join Center for Houston’s Future on Wednesday, September 9, for a conversation with Loren Steffy about his new book with Stan Marek,
