Immigration and Crime: Panel and Two Studies

A panel was held for the release of two studies, "Immigration and Crime: New Studies Examine Crime among Immigrants, Local Enforcement Efforts" and, "The 287(g) Program: Protecting Home Towns and Homeland." Read More...

Roadblocks to Amnesty: State Sovereignty, Double Jeopardy, and Legalization
By Steve Zawacki

As Congress moves toward attempting to legitimize the estimated 12 million persons within the country who have no lawful authority to be here, certain realities according to the constitutions and laws of the U.S. and the states, especially in the context of criminal law, must be recognized. Read More...

Dallas Would-Be Bomber Hosam Smadi: The Case for 287(g) and Exit Tracking
By Janice Kephart

The case of would-be terrorist Hosam Smadi points to the value of a viable exit-tracking program that would verify that a foreign national has departed the U.S. as well as a 287(g) Program that can stop a terrorist when the system has no other derogatory information. Read More...

Physician, Heal Thyself: Special Pleaders Demand Coverage of Illegal Aliens, While Mexico’s Health Care System Is a Wreck
By George W. Grayson

Demands that American taxpayers subsidize the health care of Mexican immigrant families might be more persuasive were Mexico’s own health sector not in such desperate need of overhaul. Read More...

Public Opinion in Mexico on U.S. Immigration: Zogby Poll Examines Attitudes

A new survey by Zogby International finds that people in Mexico think that granting legal status to illegal immigrants would encourage more illegal immigration to the U.S., among other findings. Read More...

The New Case Against Immigration,
Both Legal and Illegal
By Mark Krikorian
Sentinel (part of the Penguin Group), 2008

As Mark Krikorian argues in this provocative book, what's different today is not the immigrants, but us. Today's immigrants are very similar to those of a century ago, but they are coming to a very different America -- one where changes in the economy, society, and government create fundamentally different incentives for newcomers. Read More...