Illegal Immigration and the Border Crisis
Four years of open borders and sanctuary policies have brought criminal drug networks, human trafficking, and an epidemic of sexual assault.
The Biden administration is using misleading statistics and rhetoric to hide its role in perpetuating the migrant crisis.
In Charleroi, Pennsylvania, the local population grapples with a surge of Haitian migrants.
Recent migrant scandals force us to consider who, how, and how much.
The breakdown at the border has at once become a symbol of our polarization and an accelerant of it.
Kamala Harris hasn’t clarified her position on immigration and the border wall, and the media won’t press her to do so.
Economists are wrong about migration and its effects.
Can we fix America’s immigration problems by reforming foreign governments? The Biden–Harris administration thought so.
New York City sees tens of thousands of illegal aliens as a bonanza for no-bid deals.
Donald Trump’s proposal to give green cards to all foreign students who graduate from a U.S. college is a bad idea.
Mainstream media outlets refuse to cover illegal-immigrant crime.
It is unequivocally the intended result of Biden administration policy.
The president’s recent pledge to “shut down” the border suggests that, if nothing else could, his political survival might finally motivate him to enforce the law.
The Biden administration misleads the public about its new parole system.
State and local governments are spending billions on migrants and asylum seekers—and the bill will only grow steeper.
The president’s move to construct 20 miles of barrier fence on the Mexican border is too little, too late, but still a symbolic victory for sanity.
From City Journal’s Symposium Series
A symposium on higher education in the United States
A symposium on anti-Semitism in the United States
Proposals to reinvigorate American dynamism, innovation, and self-sufficiency
Proposals for reversing America’s criminal-justice decline
A symposium on restoring the principle of color blindness
Podcasts
City Journal’s 10 Blocks podcast features rich conversations on public policy and culture with host Brian C. Anderson.
In the Risk Talking podcast, host Allison Schrager—economist, journalist, and author—discusses cutting-edge economics in plain language.
The Spotlight
Without the religious roots of Christmas, Thanksgiving serves as an occasion to celebrate country and family.
John F. Kennedy was murdered by a Communist in an age of superpower tensions—but 60 years later, a counterfactual mythology continues to mislead Americans.
Sabin Howard’s A Soldier’s Journey brings a cinematic approach to the Great War—and defies the arrogance of Washington’s cultural elites.
Levon Helm, The Band, and the birth of Americana
The will to liberty can overcome the will to power.
How to remove the barriers holding back the American entrepreneurial spirit
The federal bureaucracy increasingly acts as prosecutor, judge, and jury.
The reductio ad Hitlerum: a refuge of tired minds
Republicans’ high-spirited convention, culminating in Donald Trump’s acceptance speech, exemplified the changes the GOP has undergone since 2016.
Facing long odds, Donald Trump rewrote the political playbook.
How a lifelong New Yorker became tribune of the rustics and deplorables
They want self-government back.
Elites are building a system to control and constrain Americans’ self-expression and political freedom.
Our divides are as much epistemological as political.
With roots dating back to our Founding, America’s urban-rural split is wider than ever.
New York used to be more than a money stop for the nation’s chief executives.
