Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Stuart Anderson writes about immigration, business and globalization. Developments in 2024 will reverberate in 2025 to drive U.S.

"To be honest, you're cutting it close on time if you haven't already looked at it because the new administration is right around the corner," Littler Mendelson shareholder Jorge Lopez said. Labor ...

Americans’ views of immigration have swung drastically upward in the past year, with a new poll showing record-high support for immigration amid President Donald Trump’s controversial mass deportation ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement today released its Fiscal Year 2024 Annual Report, which highlights the agency’s primary missions of immigration enforcement and combating ...

NATICK — The Select Board on Wednesday unanimously approved a controversial immigration and documentation policy after fielding dozens of people's comments at previous meetings, hundreds of emails and ...

Recent shifts in immigration flows have lowered the estimates of net international migration into the United States. New data indicate that net migration will be close to half a million people in 2025 ...

U.S. net international migration (NIM) grew at historically high rates over the past several years. An update of earlier San Francisco Fed analysis (Duzhak 2024), using new and revised data on the ...

The Trump administration has ramped up investigations of companies suspected of employing undocumented immigrants, directing officials to meet audit quotas for such reviews to accelerate deportation ...

There was a significant drop-off in entries to the United States in 2025 relative to 2024 and an increase in enforcement activity leading to removals and voluntary departures. We estimate that net ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — President Donald Trump's crackdown on immigration contributed to a year-to-year drop in the nation's growth rate as the U.S. population reached nearly 342 million people in 2025, ...