The United States has long been a nation shaped by immigration—built by generations of people who arrived seeking freedom, opportunity, and the promise of a better future. From the early European ...

America's economic strength rests on its ability to attract talent, reward hard work, and out-innovate global competitors. Today, as the country faces labor shortages and an increasingly competitive ...

President Trump stood before Congress in 2019 and said, "Legal immigrants enrich our nation and strengthen our society in countless ways. I want people to come into our country in the largest numbers ...

The White House seems to be mining the Coolidge era for inspiration. But America is not the country it was in 1924. Credit...Todd Heisler/The New York Times Supported by By Jia Lynn Yang Jia Lynn Yang ...

Editor's note: This is the final column from Lee Hamilton posted by Indiana University. Hamilton, 94, died Wednesday, following a life of civil service. It’s obvious that America is deeply divided ...

This Pew Research Center analysis is part of a broader project that examines Americans’ views of immigration policy, immigration officers’ actions and the public’s response to immigration enforcement.

AMERICANS HAVE been arguing about immigration since the country’s founding. In his first message to Congress as president in 1801, Thomas Jefferson insisted it was too difficult for newcomers to ...

So warned my colleague David Frum in the headline of an April 2019 article about America’s failure to control mass immigration. “Demagogues rise by talking about issues that matter to people, and that ...

Bystanders watch as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detain people at a residence in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Jan. 13, 2026. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images) About this research This ...

On March 12, the Heritage Foundation posted six words on X: “We have a legal immigration problem.” That sentence would once have been unthinkable from a major conservative institution. And Heritage is ...