Goodbye, Obama
The outgoing president leaves a loaded gun in the Oval Office.
Immigration
Meet California's Face of Federal Government Resistance—Eric Holder?
His Department of Justice prosecuted legal marijuana growers in the Golden State, but that was totally different!
You Do Realize that if You Keep All the Jobs in America, the Mexicans Will Return?
Has Donald Trump really thought through the implications of not letting U.S. companies outsource low-level work?
Tom Cotton's Immigration Restrictions Are Delusional and Counterproductive
Cotton's idea that a flood of immigrant labor is to blame for depressed low-skill wages is just flaky
Obama Officially Kills Bush-Era Muslim Registry Program Before Trump Can Resurrect It
Some 93,000 immigrants were put through the NSEERS program without a single one being convicted on any terrorism charges.
Texas Is a Model for a More-Libertarian, More-Diverse America: Avik Roy
Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity co-founder discusses diversity and free markets in the Trump Era.
What Can Donald Trump Really Do About Sanctuary Cities?
The constitutional conflict between states and the federal government over undocumented immigrants.
Libertarianism in a Rapidly Diversifying America: Reason Debate on 12/8 in DC
Nick Gillespie, Shikha Dalmia, Avik Roy, and Charles C.W. Cooke talk about immmigration, limited government, and cosmopolitanism.
If You Care About the Second Amendment—And Incredibly Terrible Reporting That's Biased Against Guns—Support Reason!
Yesterday's terrifying non-shooting at Ohio State exemplifies how the media is anti-gun and anti-freedom.
National Police Union is Not Happy With Donald Trump's Proposed Crackdown on Sanctuary Cities
The union may have loved Trump's law-and-order rhetoric, but they don't want to lose funding over cities' refusal to comply with immigration crackdown.
Trump Says Millions Voted Illegally but Any Recount Would Be Pointless
The president-elect claims he would have won the popular vote if Clinton had not benefited from widespread fraud.
Two Immigrants Debate Immigration
A conversation about who wins and who loses when America opens its golden door.
Trump Could Resurrect a Failed Bush-Era Screening Program for Muslim Immigrants
The NSEERS program screened more than 93,000 immigrants over nine years but failed to catch a single potential terrorist.
Donald Trump and the Coming Battle Over Legal and Illegal Immigration
The billionaire president-elect may even seek to keep high-skilled foreigners out of the country.
Trump's War on Immigration Will Reprise the War on Drugs
Reason policy analyst Shikha Dalmia on how the president-elect will make good on his worst threats.
The Coming Resistance to Trump's Immigration Crackdown
Watch for federal/local battles over deportations.
Trump Wants To Deport As Many Undocumented Immigrants As Obama Already Has
The upside: the number of undocumented immigrants with criminal records is less than Trump's stated goal of over two million deportations.
Trump Retreats From Deportation of 'Terrific People' Who Live Here Illegally
After the border is secured, the president-elect says, "we're going to make a determination" about undocumented immigrants.
Trump Is Stacking His Team With Aggressive Nativists
This does not bode well for any future softening of his immigration policy
Will Trump Supporters Like What They Get?
Trade wars and debt increases loom on the horizon.
Alt-Right Nativists Launch Witch Hunt Against Chobani Yogurt Founder For Helping Refugees
They want to stop even private charity by private citizens
Trump's Immigrant Bashing Isn't Winning the GOP White Voters
It's just losing it Latinos and minorities
Trump's Insane Immigration Plan Would Add Yet Another Unnecessary Mandatory Minimum
Fast-tracked immigration prosecutions have already cost an estimated $7 billion. Now Trump wants to add mandatory minimum sentences.
Anti-Immigration Restrictionism Is for Losers
Conservative intellectuals are pushing a turn that will alienate millennials, not secure the GOP's white base.
Anti-Immigration Conservative Intellectuals Are Seriously Misleading Their Party
They are out of step with millennials and America.
Immigration Authoritarianism
Trump's pandering to xenophobia is nothing new for the GOP.
Trump Is Wrong About Terrorism and Immigration
The costs of a moratorium would far outweigh any conceivable security benefit.
What If Donald Trump Jr.'s Bowl of Skittles Were Gun-Owners?
Fear mongering, despite the pretenses, is a bipartisan project.
Will We Build a Wall Against Chinese Immigrants, Too?
America has never been a "white" country. Economic and cultural nativism is on the rise - and the most un-American idea of all.
Gary Johnson Understands One Thing Much Better Than Trump or Clinton: How to Fix America's Immigration System
He's the only one talking about a guest worker program with Mexico
Candid Canadian Cannabis Consumers Still Can't Can't Come to This Country
Any alien who admits illegal drug use is "inadmissible" without a waiver.
Gary Johnson May Not Know Aleppo, But He Does Know What's Wrong With America's Immigration System
TrumpTon, by contrast, are clueless jerks
Trump's 'Softening' Can't Make His Immigration Stance Popular
Most voters do not agree that unauthorized residents pose an intolerable threat.
Of COURSE Donald Trump Hates Jeff Flake: The Senator Preferences Fiscal Conservatism Over Party Politics
Weekend spat reveals much about the state of the contemporary GOP.
If Your Case Against Immigration Is 'You're Going To Have Taco Trucks on Every Corner,' You Lose, Amigo
Like his candidate, Latino Donald Trump spokesman just doesn't get America, food, or entrepreneurship.
The Fifth Column on Trump, Immigration Politics, and Colin Kaepernick
Your favorite podcast welcomes Andrew Kirell of The Daily Beast
Newt Gingrich in 2013: 'We Simply Cannot Continue' With 'Catastrophic' Immigration Rhetoric
But Trump's speech last night? 'Energetic and audacious'!
Want to Reduce Illegal Immigration? You Don't Have to Build a Wall
Make new and better pathways for people to come here legally instead of creating a police state armed with biometric scanners.
Clinton's 700-Mile Border Fence Is Just 300 Miles Shorter Than Trump's
The 2016 election is a master class in the "narcissism of small differences" when it comes to major-party candidates.
Donald Trump's Mexico Day Trip and Immigration Policy Nightmare
Trump visits Mexico before offering a laundry list of anti-immigration policy proposals at a rally in Arizona.
Maybe 2016 Will Be the Year Voters Elect an Openly Gay Republican to Congress
Sheriff Paul Babeu wins primary, focusing heavily on border fears.
Gary Johnson: Trump and Other Politicians Are Lying to You About Immigration
Libertarian nominee argues that the best way to stop illegal immigration is by 'making legal entry efficient'
