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The Golden Years?
| Download a pdf of this Memorandum James R. Edwards, Jr., Ph.D., is a Fellow with the Center for Immigration Studies and coauthor of The Congressional Politics of Immigration Reform. Washington is consumed with budget politics, connected with the increase in the federal debt ceiling enacted in August 2011. The Budget Control Act, which raised the national debt limit by $2.1 trillion to $16.4 trillion, requires corresponding paring of the federal deficit. Read more... |
Latino Voting in 2010
| This Backgrounder makes three straightforward points. First, gains for Republicans as the result of Latino support in the 2010 election were, at best, modest. The gains were more notable in some races than in others, but overall the results remained consistent with historical patterns, in spite of the impressive gains made by the GOP among other voters. Latino voters, like other voters, continue to be driven primarily by party identification when they cast their ballots. Swing voting is not dramatic, though inter-election fluctuations in enthusiasm and turnout are more notable. Read more... |
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Why USCIS Should Not ‘Streamline’ the Immigrant Investor (EB-5) Program
| My comments are made on behalf of the Center for Immigration Studies, a Washington, DC- based, non-partisan think tank concentrating on the impact of immigration on American systems. I have done immigration policy research for 40 years for a variety of foundations and government agencies, and some years ago conducted a study on the Australian immigrant investor program at the request of the Australian government. I am a Fellow at CIS. Introduction Read more... |
The Use and Abuse of the Bible in the Immigration Debate
| Download a pdf of this Backgrounder James K. Hoffmeier is Professor of Old Testament and Near Eastern Archaeology at Trinity International University. All translations are from the ESV unless otherwise specified. Read more... |
Newt Gingrich Plan Would Mean More Illegal Immigrants
| US News, November 30, 2011 Former Speaker Gingrich's approach to immigration is identical to that of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy and Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama: promises of enforcement in exchange for an illegal-alien amnesty and unlimited future immigration. Congress and the public have repeatedly rejected this approach and there's no reason to think anything's changed. Read more... |
Visa Waiver Program Oversight
| U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement Washington, DC December 7, 2011 Statement of Jessica M. Vaughan Director of Policy Studies Center for Immigration Studies Read more... |
Re-Authorizing the EB-5 Regional Center Program
| Testimony Before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary Wednesday, December 7, 2011 – (release on delivery) Statement by David North, Fellow, Center for Immigration Studies, Washington, DC Video of David North's Testimony Read more... |
Secure Communities by the Numbers, Revisited (Part 1 of 3)
| Download a pdf of this Memorandum Read Part 2 Read Part 3 W.D. Reasoner (a pseudonym) is a retired government employee with many years of experience in immigration administration, law enforcement, and national security matters. Jessica M. Vaughan is Director of Policy Studies at CIS. Summary Read more... |
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Cheap Labor as Cultural Exchange: The $100 Million Summer Work Travel Industry
| Download a pdf of "Cheap Labor as Cultural Exchange" View the Table of Contents Jerry Kammer is a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies. Read more... |
Young Americans ‘Don’t Know How the System Works’
| Related Publications: Panel Transcript, Panel Video Download a pdf of "Cheap Labor as Cultural Exchange" View the Table of Contents Jerry Kammer is a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies. Read more... |
'Enforcement first': A tough but fair immigration system
| The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 11, 2011 Americans want their immigration laws enforced, but they often also feel bad for illegal aliens who seem like decent people. Read more... |
Declining Summer Employment Among American Youths
| Download a pdf of this Memorandum Steven A. Camarota is the Director of Research at the Center for Immigration Studies. Read more... |
SWT in Alaska: Fish Sliming as Cultural Exchange
| Related Publications: Panel Transcript, Panel Video Download a pdf of "Cheap Labor as Cultural Exchange" View the Table of Contents Jerry Kammer is a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies. Read more... |
“A Cavalier Attitude”: The State Department’s Legacy of SWT Failure
| Related Publications: Panel Transcript, Panel Video Download a pdf of "Cheap Labor as Cultural Exchange" View the Table of Contents Jerry Kammer is a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies. Read more... |
An Open Letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton about the Summer Work Travel Program
| Related Publications: Panel Transcript, Panel Video Download a pdf of "Cheap Labor as Cultural Exchange" View the Table of Contents Jerry Kammer is a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies. Dear Secretary Clinton: Read more... |
H-1B Visas a Symptom of Special-Interest Influence in D.C.
| usnews.com, December 28, 2011 Over the previous year, the United States lost 19,740 computer jobs, 107,200 engineering jobs, and 243,870 science jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In spite of massive job losses, industry has managed to use up the entire quota of H-1B visas, most of which went to foreign workers in these fields. It is likely over 100,000 H-1B visas were given out this year. Read more... |
Immigration-Related Dissertations - 2010
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Court: Iran, Hezbollah partly responsible for 9/11
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Why the Citizenship Clause Should Be Taken More Seriously
| Immigration attorney Margaret Stock recently responded to my latest Backgrounder in an attempt to marginalize the issues surrounding citizenship as it relates to children born to foreign diplomats. My full report, "Birthright Citizenship for Children of Foreign Diplomats?", is available online. 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... |
The Immigrant Investor (EB-5) Visa
| Despite repeated and almost frantic efforts by the Department of Homeland Security to sell the program, the numerical limit of 10,000 green cards a year for investors has yet to be reached; in fact only a small fraction of that number are awarded annually. Read more... |
Mr. President, we must not allow an engineer gap!
| National Review, February 6, 2012 Read more... |
Response to USCIS Request for Comments on Draft RFE Templates Regarding the Admission of L-1 Workers
| Response of Center for Immigration Studies, Washington, D.C., February 3, 2012 to A Request for Comments by USCIS on Draft RFE Templates Regarding the Admission of L-1 Workers Read more... |
Illegal Population Stops Declining under Obama
| WASHINGTON (February 15, 2012) – The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will soon release its new estimate of the illegal immigrant population in the United States as of January 1, 2011. (All DHS estimates are for January 1.) Based on a preliminary analysis of some of the same data DHS uses, the Center for Immigration Studies estimates that 10.9 million (± 200,000) illegal immigrants lived in the United States on January 1, 2011. Read more... |
REAL ID Implementation Annual Report
| Download a pdf of this Backgrounder Janice Kephart is the Director of National Security Policy at the Center for Immigration Studies. Thank you to Andrew Meehan for research support. Introduction Read more... |