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Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, the Brookings Institution
September 24, 2026

How Did the Post-Pandemic Migration Surge Affect Labor and Housing Markets?
By Jennifer Hunt (Rutgers University), Pia Orrenius (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas), and Madeline Zavodny (University of North Florida)


Authors’ calculations using data from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection, and, for ports of entry during 2012-2013, from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse. Shown is the monthly sum of CBP encounters between ports of entry with migrants who crossed illicitly and at ports of entry with migrants deemed inadmissible, and the total number of those migrants who were released or granted entry into the United States.


Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Syracuse University
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