Taxes on High-Skill Immigration: Demand and Supply Response in the International Student-OPT-Work Visa Pipeline

ROCKWOOL Foundation

The Cost of Deportations Calculator

The Trump administration is taking billions of _your_ taxpayer dollars to pay for mass deportations. The Cost of Deportations Calculator shows what could this money be used for instead.

Exclusive | U.S. Weighs $100,000 Fee for Foreign Students Wanting to Work After Graduation

The proposed policy would particularly affect Silicon Valley, Wall Street and universities.

Fee for Certain H-1B Petitions

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) proposes to establish a $103,265 fee, payable at the time of filing, for all H-1B cap-subject petitions, including those eligible for the advanced degree exemption, which would be imposed in addition to all other applicable fees or payments. This fee...

Hunkering Down: Immigration Enforcement’s Economic Cost | Great Cities Institute | University of Illinois Chicago

Hunkering Down: The Hidden Economic Cost of Federal Immigration Enforcement in Cook County, IL examines how heightened federal immigration enforcement beginning in January 2025 affected travel and commercial activity across Cook County. The report finds that residents of neighborhoods with relatively high shares of Latin America–born residents substantially reduced trips to retail stores and restaurants in other parts of Cook County after enforcement intensified. These “cross-community” trips had been a routine part of the county’s economy before January 2025, connecting immigrant communities with businesses and commercial corridors throughout the region.

Unauthorized Immigration Effects on Local Labor Markets

The large increase and subsequent decline of unauthorized immigrant workers in recent years have raised questions about the impact of these changes on local labor markets across the United States. New analysis linking immigration data with employment data for specific areas suggests that the rapid rise in unauthorized immigrant worker flows increased local employment roughly one-for-one. Extending the analysis to the industry level further suggests that the slowdown of net immigration had a large negative impact on local employment, particularly for construction and manufacturing.

Immigrant Deportations: Trends and Impacts | Econofact

Research on previous episodes of increased immigration enforcement sheds light on the impact deportations can have on labor markets, crime, and civic life.

Third Country Deportation Watch

Monitoring the human cost of the U.S. government’s forced third country transfer agreements.

Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996

The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRAIRA), is a law enacted as division C of the Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act of 1997 which made major changes to the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). IIRAIRA's changes became effective on April 1, 1997.

New Proceedings Filed in Immigration Court

TRAC Immigration

The decrease from the levels five years ago in immigration prosecutions for these matters is shown more clearly in this figure. The vertical bars in Figure 1 represent the number of immigration prosecutions of this type recorded on a month-to-month basis. Where a prosecution was initially filed in U.S. Magistrate Court and then transferred to the U.S. District Court, the magistrate filing date was used since this provides an earlier indicator of actual trends.

Resources - National Immigration Law Center

Explore NILC’s resources. Check out expert-curated guides, toolkits, policy briefs, and more addressing key issues impacting immigrant communities.