Plain-language takeaways computed directly from the latest available data — each one sourced and labelled reported, projected, or estimated. We state direction and magnitude, never causation.
Amazon, Infosys, Cognizant together filed 23,726 of 399,395 H-1B approvals in FY2024 — a small group of firms drives a large share of the program.
H-1B is often debated as if usage were spread evenly. In reality a handful of large employers dominate filings, so policy changes land hardest on them.
283,397 of 399,395 approvals went to India nationals — more than 6.1× the next country (China, 46,680).
Because the program is so concentrated by nationality, any change to H-1B rules falls disproportionately on one country's applicants.
Nationwide CBP encounters dropped from 3.2M in FY2023 to 691.9K in FY2025.
Encounters are the figure most often cited in border debates. They are now at multi-decade lows — an encounter is an event, not a person, and is not a deportation.
A point-in-time count of people held on one specific day, compared with the FY2024 average daily population (37,684). This snapshot is 243 days old — ICE has very likely published newer figures since, so treat it as dated rather than current.
Detention capacity is a concrete, fundable constraint on enforcement — it tends to move before removal totals do. It is a stock, not a flow, and cannot be added to arrests or removals.
At the current pace, FY2026 would finish near 256.9K issuances vs 372K in FY2025.
International students are a leading indicator for universities and the future skilled-worker pipeline — they often respond to policy faster than employment visas.
165 employers appear in both the state WARN feed and the USCIS H-1B employer directory. Both figures are reported records from their own agencies. This does NOT prove anyone was replaced — the datasets do not identify the immigration status of affected workers.
This is the comparison that fuels the loudest claims online. Seeing both reported numbers together — with the causation caveat — is more useful than either in isolation.
550 notices filed with state agencies across 5 states (CA, NJ, TX, VA, WA). For context, the same states recorded 77,485 employees across 570 notices in all of 2025. This is not a national total — most states do not publish WARN data in a machine-readable form.
WARN notices are the earliest official signal of large layoffs. They are filed with state agencies before the layoffs happen, which makes them a leading indicator of labor stress — separate from visa policy.
National seasonally-adjusted unemployment (August 2026), fetched live from the BLS Public Data API when this site was last built.
Arguments about immigration and jobs depend heavily on the underlying labor market. This is the one figure here that is genuinely near-live.
Observations computed from reported figures and exact counts of ImmigrationClock’s own archive — nothing projected, estimated or modeled. Each has a page with the method, the source and the caveats.
Five things that changed in U.S. immigration, every week — sourced and labelled, no spin.