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Niskanen Center

American moderate think tank founded in 2015

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Dec 1, 2025
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Does Project 25 include plans for racial remigration or population resettlement?

Available sources show Project 2025 proposes sweeping, day‑one immigration rollbacks, mass deportations, expanded expedited removal and rescission of many immigration protections — but none of the pro...

Jan 17, 2026
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Are liberals more educated than others

Across American politics, college-educated adults skew noticeably more liberal and Democratic than less-educated peers, a pattern dubbed the “diploma divide” and evident in multiple academic and polli...

Nov 17, 2025
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What specific actions by Donald Trump have been cited as threats to US democracy?

Multiple observers, advocacy groups, think tanks and news outlets cite a set of specific Trump actions they say threaten U.S. democracy: public efforts to criminalize or prosecute election officials a...

Jan 15, 2026

How do college degree attainment rates compare between Democrats and Republicans nationwide?

Nationwide, Democrats today include a substantially larger share of college-educated voters than Republicans: recent analyses find roughly half of Democrats hold four‑year degrees while Republicans re...

Jan 8, 2026

How has Congress attempted to reform the National Emergencies Act since 1976?

Since enacting the National Emergencies Act (NEA) in 1976 to reclaim congressional oversight over long‑running presidential emergency powers, Congress has periodically revisited the law with proposals...

Feb 3, 2026

What portion of public education, emergency healthcare, and K-12 costs are attributed to children of undocumented immigrants?

Available reporting does not permit a single, precise percentage of , public education outlays, or emergency-healthcare costs that can be cleanly attributed to children of undocumented immigrants; est...

Dec 18, 2025

What proportion of immigration enforcement agents have criminal records compared to FBI and DEA agents?

No reliable, public data were found in the supplied reporting that directly measure the proportion of immigration enforcement agents who themselves have criminal records versus the proportions for FBI...

Dec 16, 2025

"Opposition is directed at illegal immigration, not legal immigration."

Opposition to immigration is often framed as targeting “illegal” rather than “legal” immigration, but reporting and policy actions in 2024–2025 show contests over both: U.S. federal agencies and court...

Dec 9, 2025

Are migrant truck drivers driving without licenses?

Federal and state enforcement actions in 2025 targeted immigrant truck drivers and certain non‑domiciled commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs), prompting revocations and threats to withhold highway fund...

Dec 7, 2025

How would Project 2025 alter immigration law regarding legal status, deportations, and visa programs?

Project 2025’s immigration blueprint would sharply constrict legal pathways, expand deportations and interior enforcement, and suspend or eliminate multiple visa programs — especially humanitarian vis...

Nov 18, 2025

How does ICE define and classify 'mistaken identity' in enforcement actions?

ICE does not appear in the provided reporting to publish a single, public legal definition of “mistaken identity” used to classify enforcement errors; instead recent coverage shows officials often des...