Deregulating Legal Immigration: A Blueprint for Agency Action
President Trump restricted legal immigration through a series of unprecedented regulations and presidential orders during his one term. Once President‐elect Joe Biden takes office, he will have the opportunity to reverse these actions and deregulate what is—and was even before Trump—an overly burdensome and expensive legal immigration system. This compendium of 30 concise proposals by 15 authors—including several of America’s leading immigration law experts—can help the Biden administration operate the immigration system as openly and efficiently as the laws allow.
- “Deregulating Legal Immigration: A Blueprint for Agency Action,” by David J. Bier
United States Ranks 17th in Sixth Annual Human Freedom Index
The United States ranks 17th in the sixth annual Human Freedom Index (HFI), the most comprehensive measure of freedom ever created for a large number of countries around the globe. The U.S.‘s overall freedom score decreased from the previous year of 2017, from 8.55 to 8.44 on a ten point scale. “After recent years in which the United States started to regain higher levels of overall freedom, it, unfortunately, began falling again in 2018, with the drop in economic freedom exceeding the decline in personal freedom,” says co‐author Ian Vasquez.
- “Human Freedom Index,” by Ian Vásquez and Fred McMahon