Immigration Reform
Our immigration system in this country is broken. Executive action does not solve the problem but neither would any attempt at a mass deportation. The United States needs to identify the people who are here and ensure they are properly taxed.
March 23rd, 2023
Government spending in the United States is enormous. Federal and state governments spent over $9 trillion in 2022 on the welfare state, defense, health care, education, and other areas. Taxes and borrowing fund that...
March 2nd, 2023
Bipartisan legislation that would protect people brought to the U.S. as children is back, and the urgency is greater.
February 16th, 2023
Join a town hall discussion around immigration reform and its impact on children co-hosted by Rice University’s Baker Institute Center for the United States and Mexico, Center for Houston’s Future, Children...
February 2nd, 2023
Total government spending on the welfare state amounted to about $2.6 trillion in 2020. In that year, the federal government spent roughly $2.4 trillion on welfare and entitlement programs, an amount equal to approximately...
January 19th, 2023
The immigration system of the United States favors family reunification even in the so‐called employment‐based (EB) green card categories. Under current interpretations of U.S. immigration law, family members of immigrant...
January 5th, 2023
2022 concludes another year of little to no meaningful immigration reforms while the urgency and need for them increased.
December 22nd, 2022
ABIC Action Disappointed in Congress for Failing Farmers, Farm Workers, Dreamers, and U.S. Consumers
WASHINGTON – In response to Congress failing to include immigration solutions in the omnibus package, the American Business Immigration Coalition Action Executive Director Rebecca Shi issued the following statement:
December 7th, 2022
For years, Republicans and Democrats have been at each other's throats about immigration. Democrats have urged Republicans to legalize many in the undocumented community, while Republicans have called for increased border...
November 23rd, 2022
The U.S. immigration system is too restrictive and bureaucratic. The result is chaos along the U.S.-Mexico border, wait times for legal visas that sometimes extend for decades, and a reduction in economic and cultural...
November 3rd, 2022
A recent poll found 73% of voters in Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin support creating a method for unauthorized immigrants to earn legal status and eventually citizenship if they meet certain...
March 16th, 2023
A recent town hall discussion in Houston highlighted how a lack of needed immigration reforms is resulting in a humanitarian
February 23rd, 2023
The total number of encounters along the southwest (SW) border with Mexico dropped by 37.9 percent in the month following President Biden’s new immigration and border plan. President Biden framed his plan as an immigration...
February 9th, 2023
Republicans have long campaigned on promises to improve border security.
January 26th, 2023
A recent episode of the Rational Middle of Immigration podcast highlighted the need for sensible immigration reforms in the US and examined how the 118th Congress will handle immigration. Speakers Charles Foster, Houston-...
January 12th, 2023
Amid a series of new policies intended to address the challenges at the border and President Biden’s first visit to the U.S.-Mexico border, several prominent evangelical organizations sent a letter to both President Biden...
December 29th, 2022
A recent episode of the Rational Middle of Immigration podcast examined common misconceptions about immigration in the US. Show host Melissa Brannan and author and Cornell Professor Glenn Altschuler discuss facts and points...
December 15th, 2022
Several prominent evangelical organizations recently sent a letter to every member of Congress, imploring them to address urgent border and immigration policy issues.
December 1st, 2022
A recent episode of the Rational Middle of Immigration Podcast discussed the need for solutions to manage flows of migration at the southern border and the use of Title 42 by the Biden Administration to "kick the can down...
November 17th, 2022
Our leaders in Congress must finally work together in a bipartisan fashion to provide this protection by passing a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers. Compromise is necessary.
October 27th, 2022
US Labor Secretary Marty Walsh said Tuesday that immigration reform that will increase the number of workers in the US is needed to prevent an economic catastrophe bigger than a recession or inflation.