Highlights

Money Talks: Selected Immigration-Related Proposals In the President’s FY 2011 Budget
By James R. Edwards, Jr.

President Obama submitted his fiscal year 2011 budget proposal to Congress. This Memo examines several of the immigration-related provisions of that budget proposal. Read More...


Business and Labor on Immigration Contrasting Views of Leaders vs. Rank and File
By Steven Camarota

A new Zogby poll of senior executives, business owners, and members of union households finds that each of these groups thinks the best way to deal with illegal immigrants in the country is to enforce the law. Read More...


Overview: Haitian Immigration

An overview page that contains a fact sheet on basic socio-demographic statistics, CIS blogs, and news articles. Read More...


Fixing Flores: Assuring Adequate Penalties for Identity Theft and Fraud
By Janice Kephart

Flores crippled prosecutors’ longstanding practice of using the aggravated identity theft statute by requiring that prosecutors now also prove that a defendant knew he was using a real person’s identity information, as opposed to counterfeit information not connected to an actual person. Read More...


Overview: CIR ASAP

The Democratic amnesty bill, CIR ASAP, has been released. The Center has gathered blogs, articles and other content for quick reference. More information will be posted as it becomes available. Read More...


A Bailout for Illegal Immigrants? Lessons from the Implementation of the 1986 IRCA Amnesty
By David North

With the Democratic amnesty bill on the horizon, it is a good time to take a careful look at the dysfunctional inner workings of the last major bailout of America’s illegal alien population. 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...

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