The illegal immigration problem is going away.That's the conclusion I draw from the latest report of the Pew Hispanic Center on Mexican immigration to the United States.Pew's demographers have carefully combed through statistics compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau, the Department of Homeland Security and the...

Millions of unauthorized Mexican immigrants live and work in the United States. Their numbers are large compared to earlier waves of illegal migration to the United States and relative to Mexico’s population. The scale of illegal migration has, in turn, provoked intense concerns about its consequences for the United States...

When any economy faces challenges, the first thing it should do is determine if it has any self-inflicted wounds, as those are the easiest to correct. The evidence is clear that the benefits of skilled immigration are high. The costs of bad immigration are also high. It is past time for the nation to stop shooting itself in the foot.

The "globalization" that produced the tremendous surge in world output over the past two hundred years has entailed not only trade flows and international capital flows, but a dramatic international movement of human beings in pursuit of economic opportunity. But does international migration still have a role in promoting development...

For the first time in a generation, Tokyo is running trade deficits.

A now-irrelevant provision of the Voting Rights Act may soon be no more.

We should embrace migration as a proven method of bringing immediate relief and stability to poor nations.

A new database can combine administrative records and survey data for all employer and nonemployer business units in the United States.