Forty years ago, Congress passed the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. It was the last time our legislature passed a comprehensive immigration reform, and it helps explain how immigration ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about investor immigration and international law issues. The current U.S. immigration ...

Backgrounder: The new Congress shares President Bush’s reform approach but new legislation is by no means assured. The country’s immigration system, assailed by all sides as inadequate, generated ...

The last bipartisan attempt to pass comprehensive immigration reform in the U.S. was in 2013, well over a decade ago. It failed. Four Democratic and four Republican senators co-authored the Border ...

You can’t blame some Republicans for being skeptical of any bill offering legal status to those who entered the United States illegally. But conservatives risk squandering a rare opportunity if they ...

Federal agents stand guard after deploying tear gas as community members protest in Minneapolis Jan. 15, 2026, during ongoing demonstrations against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. On Jan. 7 ...

The Dispatch is a subscription platform for reporting and independent perspectives from the American center-right on policy and culture. Mention the phrase “immigration reform” to a member of Congress ...

This is the second in a series of three columns about immigration enforcement and reform. Click here for Part 1. Barack Obama had a plan for comprehensive immigration reform, a legislative goal that ...

This is the third and final column in this series about immigration enforcement and reform. Click here for Part 1, and here for Part 2. Barack Obama and Donald Trump are two very different presidents, ...