Amusing: Per AEI's paper on think tank ideology, Niskanen Center is the only true centrist think tank in DC It can be difficult to explain how we work with everyone on the Hill—people are like "Centrist? That's DC marketing, what are you really." But it's actually true!

Great news: The Internal Medicine Board is starting a pilot certification pathway for international physicians! Specialty certification was the final hurdle facing international docs who get licensed under new alternative pathways. This was a key Niskanen Center recommendation.

.Cecilia Esterline and I's paper: niskanencenter.org/unlocking-pote…

Why do we make it so hard for our allies to send personnel here to train Americans? My latest (and first for Diplomat Magazine (International)) with Claire Holba on the Hyundai raid:

To be clear, our allies shouldn’t get a free pass for breaking our labor laws. But we can’t afford to ignore the economic and geopolitical fallout of mass raids like the one at Hyundai.

In Newsweek today: newsweek.com/trumps-h1-b-vi…

Universities power local economies. Policies that drive graduates away risk draining jobs and weakening those economic engines.

Internationally trained doctors can now apply for Illinois’ new license pathway!

The full dataset can be accessed here: niskanencenter.org/immigrationdat…

Cecilia's distilled the newest USCIS data (processing for Apr–Jun) so that you don't have to. We're seeing: → Almost 11.6 million pending cases → 60,000+ unopened files → 538% more asylum denials than the same time last year