David J. Bier The State Department announced it will suspend immigrant visa processing for nationals of 75 countries starting next week. This ban builds on prior bans that had already barred immigrant visas for 40 countries, accounting for one in five legal immigrants. This new ban brings the number of banned nationalities up to 93, 42 percent of those in the world, ...
Jeffrey Miron As of late 2025, more than two dozen US states had enacted laws that partially or completely ban gender-affirming medical care for minors; roughly half of all transgender adolescents now live in states where such care is restricted or at risk of being banned. In addition, the federal government recently adopted measures that effectively ban gender‑affirming care for ...
Ryan Chan-Wei In recent weeks, the Senate has received dueling letters on whether Americans should be allowed to earn rewards for holding stablecoins. The Blockchain Association urged Congress not to “reinterpret and expand” the GENIUS Act’s ban on interest payments to stablecoin holders to include the payment of rewards by third-party platforms. The American Bankers Association (ABA) pressed the opposite ...
Peter Van Doren Most of the claimed benefits of federal regulation stem from air quality controls. Between 2006 and 2016, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) accounted for 71 percent of the monetized benefits and 55 percent of the costs of all major federal regulations. Of those benefits, 95 percent came from air quality rules, primarily those targeting fine particulate matter (PM2.5), ...
Alex Nowrasteh Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Kristi Noem, Border Czar Tom Homan, and others have repeatedly stated that being an ICE or Border Patrol agent is a dangerous job. The facts don’t support them. Two ICE agents have been murdered in the line of duty since 2003, neither in immigration enforcement operations. David Wilhelm was murdered ...
Scott Lincicome and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon Back in December, we created a flowchart to map out the US tariff regime, which has become increasingly complex and convoluted due to President Trump’s tariff actions under Sections 232, 301, and the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). The first version of this flowchart is available here, along with our analysis on the complexity of ...
Matthew Cavedon World-famous activist Greta Thunberg was arrested by British police right before Christmas. Her alleged offense: holding a sign praising hunger strikers belonging to Palestine Action, a protest group that the United Kingdom’s government recently classified as a terrorist group. British law forbids displaying placards supporting such organizations on pain of being imprisoned for up to six months. But ...
Thomas A. Berry, Dan Greenberg, and Kimberly Coleman Veronica Herrera-Lucha supported four family members by working for Mi Vecino, Inc., a Florida voter registration organization. But in 2023, Florida made her employment illegal. The state enacted Senate Bill 7050, which prohibits noncitizens from “collecting or handling voter registration applications.” The fine for non-compliance is steep; if a noncitizen collects or ...
Patrick G. Eddington The murder last week of Minneapolis resident and US citizen Renee Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in her own neighborhood has justifiably received national press attention and public condemnation. What should also be getting the same level of press, public, and congressional attention are cases like those of Brandon Siguenza and Patty O’Keefe. ...
Alex Nowrasteh Two scholars at the Manhattan Institute (MI) objected to my tweet, noting that Somalis aged 18–54 have an incarceration rate above that of other immigrant groups but below that of native-born Americans in the same age range. They did their own analysis and found that male 18–29 year old Somali immigrants who arrived age 15 or younger have a ...