Working Immigrants

The reality about non-citizen voting

The National Conference of State Legislatures wrote on Sept 1, 2026: “There is no evidence of significant numbers of noncitizens appearing on voter rolls or cas...

Biden’s mismanagement of the border caused the share of the public concerned about illegal immigration to double from a quarter to half the population. it is now back to a quarter.

Illegal immigration as a popular concern appears, reasonably, driven by public reports on the number of persons who show up on American soil having crossed the Mexican border between formal ...

In contrast to the 2000s, ICE is not carrying out worksite raids which arrest hundreds of workers. (Here is a summary.) It appears to have stayed away from farms and hospitality sites. Here is a story of the aftermath of one raid whi...

The State of Florida opened in mid 2025 one of the largest facilities to house ICE detainees, then closed it in under a year.

Alligator Alcatraz was a Florida State owned ICE detention facility located at a remote airfield in Big  Cypress National Preserve in the Everglades, 50 miles west of Miami. Alligator Alcatraz received its first detainees on July 3, 2025. Operat...

The Migration Policy Institute has prepared a profile of the educational attainment of sub-Saharan immigrants.

Looking at all adult immigrants, globally (which MPI counts at about 42 million) are about...