Angelo A. Paparelli and David J. Bier With spring approaching, US businesses that sponsor noncitizen workers for employment‐based immigration benefits are accustomed to weathering seasonal changes. Most employers are likely…
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The Center for Immigration Studies Is Still Wrong About Illegal Immigrant Crime in Texas
Alex Nowrasteh Last week, I published updated research on illegal immigrant homicide rates in Texas, settling a disagreement with the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS). As a brief recap, I discovered unique crime data…
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Taiwan Arms Backlog, February 2024 Update: Long Waits for F-16 Upgrade, Guided Bombs
Eric Gomez and Benjamin Giltner The backlog of US weapons sales owed to Taiwan did not change much in February 2024. The Biden administration only announced one new sale—upgrade equipment…
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Walter Olson After some time in the making, my paper for the Nevada Policy Research Institute is now out, entitled “Efficient, Timely, and Reliable: A Framework for Election Law in Nevada.”…
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Ryan Bourne President Joe Biden will reportedly use his State of the Union (SOTU) speech to blame corporations for high grocery bills. The public remains deeply angry at the prices…
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David J. Bier This updates an earlier post. Border Patrol Chief Jason Owens confirmed last week that the number of known successful evasions of Border Patrol (“gotaways”) have fallen to…
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Utah Becomes Seventh State to Let Patients Access Prescribing Clinical Psychologists
Jeffrey A. Singer Almost exactly one year after Colorado became the sixth state to allow mental health patients access to doctorate‐level prescribing psychologists (RxPs), Utah lawmakers passed SB 26, which…
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Jeffrey Miron Non‐libertarians tend to believe that if X is good (bad), then policies encouraging (discouraging) X are beneficial. (X might be drugs, guns, sex‐education, savings, and numerous other examples.) Libertarians believe…
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Oregon Lawmakers Roll back New Drug War Strategy and Revert to Decades-Old Approach Linked to Soaring Overdose Deaths
Jeffrey A. Singer Oregon voters passed Measure 110 in November 2020, which put an end to caging people who choose to consume drugs that the government prohibits. The drug decriminalization…
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Colleen Hroncich Mercedes Grant knew there had to be a better way to educate students. A special education with experience in several states, she kept seeing the same problems. She didn’t think…