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Immigration to the United States and World-Wide Greenhouse Gas Emissions
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Immigrants from the Middle East
| Download this Backgrounder as a .pdf In the aftermath of September 11, there has been heightened interest in the Middle Eastern immigrant population living in the United States. Their integration and incorporation into American society has come to be seen as increasingly important. Read more... |
The Environmental Argument for Reducing Immigration to the United States
| This Backgrounder argues that a serious commitment to environmentalism entails ending America’s population growth by implementing a more restrictive immigration policy. The need to limit immigration necessarily follows when we combine a clear statement of our main environmental goals with uncontroversial accounts of our current demographic trajectory and of the negative environmental effects of U.S. population growth, nationally and globally. Read more... |
Immigration’s Impact on U.S. Workers
| Testimony Prepared for the House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law November 19, 2009 Read more... |
Immigration Enforcement and Community Policing
| No evidence of a "chilling effect" from local police cooperation with ICE exists in federal or local government data or independent academic research. Read more... |
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Illegal Immigration and the Colonization of the American Labor Market
| Introduction: The American Labor Market Twenty years ago the United States enacted an ambitious legislative program to get America moving. The 1964 tax cut and other economic policies spurred economic growth, while Congress was enacting a Civil Rights Act to end discrimination and President Johnson was launching the War on Poverty. Read more... |
Some Visa Categories Are More Vulnerable than Others
| Download a pdf of this Memorandum David North is a CIS fellow who has studied the interaction of immigration and U.S. labor markets for more than 30 years. Read more... |
Fact Sheet on Haitian Immigrants in the United States
| Contact: Steven Camarota, (202) 466-8185, sac@cis.org Since the terrible tragedy in Haiti, many have sought information about the Haitian community in the United States. Below are some basic socio-demographic statistics: The last Census Bureau data (2008) indicates there are 546,000 Haitian immigrants in the United States. That is up from 408,000 in 2000 and 218,000 in 1990.1 Read more... |
Are There Really Jobs Americans Won’t Do?
| This analysis tests the often-made argument that immigrants do only jobs Americans don't want. If the argument is correct, there should be occupations comprised entirely or almost entirely of immigrants (legal and illegal). But Census Bureau data collected from 2009 to 2011, which allows for detailed analysis of all 472 separate occupations, shows that there were only a handful of majority-immigrant occupations. Thus, there really are no jobs that Americans won't do. Further, we estimated the share of occupations that are comprised of illegal immigrants, and found that there are no occupations in which the majority of workers are illegally in the country. Read more... |
Muslim Immigrants in the United States
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No ‘Progress by Pesach’: The Jewish Establishment’s Usurpation of American-Jewish Opinion on Immigration
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Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants and the Employment Picture for Less-Educated Americans
| Of the estimated 11 to 12 million illegal immigrants in the United States, seven to eight million are thought to be holding a job. Rather than enforce immigration laws and encourage them to return home, President Obama and eight U.S. Senators have proposed legislation that would provide work authorization and legal status to illegal immigrants. Read more... |
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Schumer-Rubio Amnesty Would Legalize 45 Percent of ICE Criminal Caseload
| One of the most alarming effects of the Schumer-Rubio amnesty, if enacted in anything close to its current form, would be the legalization of tens of thousands of illegal aliens who have already been a public safety threat in their community. The eligibility criteria established for the amnesty and most of the new guestworker provisions excuse a wide variety of criminal behavior, including gang membership, drunk driving, vehicular manslaughter, identity theft, and immigration fraud (see this analysis). In addition, the bill offers amnesty to those who have repeatedly and flagrantly violated immigration laws. Read more... |
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Shaping Florida: The Effects of Immigration, 1970-2020
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Public Opinion in Mexico on U.S. Immigration: Zogby Poll Examines Attitudes
| Click here to download a pdf version of this Backgrounder Steven A. Camarota is the Director of Research at the Center for Immigration Studies. Read more... |
Legalizing illegal immigrants a bad idea
| Almost everyone agrees that something has to be done to resolve America's illegal immigration crisis. But will any of the reform plans that include a "pathway to citizenship" for illegal immigrants solve the problem? I voted for President Barack Obama twice and I support the DREAM Act. But as a former foreign service officer who has issued thousands of visas to immigrants who played by the rules, I believe there are several things Americans need to know before they decide where they stand on immigration reform. Read more... |
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"Firemen First " in Immigration?
| Whenever there's a partial shutdown of the federal government -- or even discussion of cutting government budgets, including at the state and local levels -- politicians often follow the "Fireman First Principle", described by Mickey Kaus this way: a clever bureaucrat, faced with a budget reduction, will threaten to cut not the least essential services but the most essential (in order to provoke public outrage that results in the budget reduction getting cancelled) Read more... |
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Immigration, Population, and Economic Growth in El Paso, Texas
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Questions for Lawmakers on Immigration
| Below are questions on immigration legislation that voters might ask their representatives when trying to determine their actual stance on the issue. Some are specifically on S.744, the Senate amnesty bill, while others are more general. Several are targeted by political party. They all are intended to help move the discussion beyond the evasions and platitudes usually offered by politicians. Read more... |
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Illegal Immigration and Immigration Reform: Protecting the Employment Rights of the American Labor Force (Native-Born and Foreign-Born) Who Are Eligible To Be Employed
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The New Case Against Immigration, Both Legal and Illegal
| 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. In other words, the America that our grandparents came to no longer exists. And this simple fact must become the new starting point for the explosive debate about immigration policy. Read more... |
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California, Illegal Immigration, and the Damaged Social Contract on Immigration
| Three decades ago, during the long national debate that finally produced the ill-fated Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, there was broad agreement that uncontrolled illegal immigration was undermining public support for all immigration. Prominent voices warned of danger to an implicit social contract that maintained that public support in return for effective control through the rule of law. In a 1983 editorial headlined "Time to Turn the Illegal Tide", The New York Times said that while the country needed immigration, "What it does not need is such an uncontrollable flood of illegal migrants that it tries public patience and foments a backlash against all newcomers." Read more... |
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Homosexuals and Immigration: Developments in the United States and Abroad
| Homosexual activists, seeking acceptance in society, are pressuring governments around the world for such rights as marriage, immigration sponsorship of same-sex partners, and asylum on the grounds of persecution as members of a distinct social group. In fact, they have succeeded at securing a number of these sorts of official recognition and approval. Supporters view these new policies as societal progress. Opponents view them as postmodern societal decline. A look at the situation shows: Read more... |
Immigration and the American Worker
| At current levels of around one million immigrants per year, immigration makes the U.S. economy (GDP) significantly larger, with almost all of this increase in GDP accruing to the immigrants themselves as a payment for their labor services. Read more... |
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Immigration From Mexico
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