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Presidents Can't Rule by Decree
| US News, June 19, 2012 There are really two questions here. The first is whether it would be advisable to amnesty long-term illegal immigrants who were brought here as young children; the second is whether the president's unilateral move was an appropriate, or even lawful, means of doing that. Read more... |
Obama’s amnesty Dream
| The Washington Times, June 19, 2012 President Obama’s latest amnesty effort is not only a lawless act and an end run around the legislative process, it is also an attempt to mislead the public. Supporters of the plan describe the administrative Dream Act as a limited policy change that will benefit young children brought to the United States through no fault of their own. A closer reading dispels a number of myths. Read more... |
What Next on Immigration?
| One thing that Romney, and the GOP more generally, should consider is what’s next. If the president gets away with this usurpation of legislative authority, what other immigration measures might we expect? After all, Friday’s amnesty decree didn’t happen in a vacuum — it was the result of the administration’s getting away with a whole series of earlier, less sweeping administrative amnesty measures. Read more... |
How Employers Cheat America’s Aging By Hiring Foreign Workers
| To better understand the importance of losses to Social Security, Medicare, and Federal Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA) trust funds, and the mechanisms that produce them, the Center for Immigration Studies is providing what we believe to be the first published estimation of these revenue shortfalls, program by program. Read more... |
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The Supreme Court Prolongs the Immigration Mess
| Temple University law professor Jan Tings' op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer. He discusses the Supreme Court's ruling on Arizona's S.B. 1070 immigration enforcement law. Read more... |
Administrative Amnesty and the Job Market
| Download a copy of this Memorandum as a pdf. Steven A. Camarota is the Director of Research at the Center for Immigration Studies. Read more... |
The Perpetual Border Battle
| Those on both sides of the issue have valid points in the ongoing debate, and, of course, they also have distinctive policy prescriptions that flow from their conclusions and outlooks. And while it may be too early to tell how long the current lull will last (assuming it hasn't already ended), assessing these policy prescriptions requires us to examine in some detail the state of illegal immigration, the reasons for the current situation and possible future developments. Read more... |
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SCOTUS Decision Will Help States Chart Course on Immigration Enforcement
| Daily Digest, June 26, 2012 Read more... |
SCOTUS Ruling on Arizona S.B. 1070 Affirms States Have a Role to Play on Immigration
| policymic.com, June 29, 2012 Read more... |
Obama Calls Retreat with Border Station Closures
| PJ Media, July 14, 2012 Read more... |
Indirect Immigration Policy Making in the U.S. Always Opens Our Borders
| A paper presented at a conference on the DYNAMICS OF THE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING LABOR MARKET AND IMMIGRATION MANAGEMENT JULY 12-13, 2012 Institute for the Study of International Migration Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Co-Organized with the Comparative Immigration & Integration Program, UCD Funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Read more... |
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Immigration Policies under a President Romney: Less Illegal, More Legal
| Last week, in response to inquiries from CNSNews.com, Mitt Romney offered some new insight into how he would administer immigration policy as president. His answers, delivered through a spokeswoman, clarified some of the statements that were delivered in a speech last month to Latino elected officials. Read more... |
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New Study Examines Immigrants at State Level
| Using the latest Census Bureau data from 2010 and 2011, the study reveals recent trends on a state by state basis. View individual state press releases above. Read more... |
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What Does the USCIS Ombudsman Do, and Not Do?
| Its newly published annual report seems to indicate that, while it is not doing much for many of the individual cases, it is quite active in pressing its policy positions with USCIS, an agency that already has a strong preference for saying "yes" to every alien and alien-employer in sight. Read more... |
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Today Is A-Day
| The Department of Homeland Security today begins accepting applications for the “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals” (DACA) amnesty program. The move will award renewable two-year grants of legal status, including work cards and Social Security numbers, to illegal aliens claiming to have arrived before their 16th birthday. Read more... |
Mark Krikorian on America's immigration DREAM
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Mark Krikorian on the Great Recession and a new American DREAM
| The Washington Times, August 18, 2012 Read more... |
The Civil Rights Implications of Current State-Level Immigration Laws
| Statement of Mark Krikorian Before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights On the Civil Rights Implications of Current State-Level Immigration Laws Birmingham, Ala., August 17, 2012 Thank you for the invitation to speak to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Read more... |
ETA Forms 9035, 9035E, 9035CP and WH-4, Related to the H-1B program
| Response of the Center for Immigration Studies, Washington, DC, July 9, 2012, to A Request for Comments by DoL on the collection of information through ETA Forms 9035, 9035E, 9035CP and WH-4, Related to the H-1B program, Federal Register/ Vol. 77, No. 131, Thursday, July 9, 2012/Notices pp 40383-84 Read more... |
Projecting the 2012 Hispanic Vote
| Using Census Bureau data, this report projects the share of Hispanic voters nationally and in battleground states for the upcoming 2012 election. Based on past trends, including growth in the adult Hispanic citizen population, we project that the Hispanic share of the nation's electorate will increase by 1.5 percentage points, from 7.4 percent in 2008 to 8.9 percent in the 2012 election. Read more... |
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Driver's License Insecurity
| My mission in keynoting the ID Innovate conference was to explain why pursuing better identity technologies remains important to national security. Fraud still exists that needs to be countered, driver's license insecurity still raises national security concerns, and technology can play an important part in pushing identity security policy forward. Read more... |
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Response to a Request for Comments on USCIS Forms I-924 and I-924A
| Response of the Center for Immigration Studies, Washington, D.C., September 3, 2012, to A Request for Comments by the Department of Homeland Security on the Collection of Information Through USCIS Forms I-924 and I-924A (Both Related to the EB-5 (Immigrant Investor) Program) Federal Register Vol. 77, No. 162, Tuesday, August 21, 2012/Notices p. 50520 OMB Control # 1615-0061 Read more... |
The Career of Vernon Briggs, Jr.
| Cornell University labor economist Vernon Briggs has made a progressive case for immigration reform in the broad national interest, he has demonstrated an encyclopedic knowledge of immigration history and a sophisticated understanding of the dynamics of labor markets. As liberal Democrat, he has been energized by a passion for defending the interests of American workers. Read more... |
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Non-Citizen Voters
| This Backgrounder discusses one of the latest skirmishes in the federal-state boundary wars: efforts by state electoral officials to vet voter registration lists to prevent non-citizens from registering and casting ballots. Interestingly, it is once again the states that are demanding that the distinction between alienage and citizenship be enforced while the federal government again has acted to frustrate state efforts through denial of access to information and the filing of lawsuits. Read more... |
Texas Border Tour
| The Center’s next border tour will focus on the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas. The Rio Grande separates Texas and Mexico across a stretch of more than 1,200 miles that is rich in history and intrigue. The natural boundary makes up almost two-thirds of the southwest border and has the most ports of entry, as well as millions of illegal crossings. Read more... |
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