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The Impact of Immigration on California
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America Has More Trained STEM Graduates than STEM Job Openings
| It has become quite clear that America has more high-tech college graduates than needed to fill high-tech jobs now and, importantly, the nation will keep producing many more such graduates than job openings in the future — so why the shrill calls from the industry that there is a shortage? The debate revolves around two sets of initials: STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) graduates and workers and the H-1B temporary worker program that floods our labor markets with low-cost, docile, high-tech nonimmigrant graduates, mostly working in computer-related industries. Read more... |
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Obama Administration Rewrites Law to Forgive False Citizenship Claims by Minors
| Aliens who have been caught in the serious fraud of falsely claiming to be U.S. citizens are no longer prevented from obtaining immigrant visas or other immigration benefits if they made the false claim before they were 18 years old — despite what the law says — thanks to a new directive from the Department of Homeland Security. Read more... |
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Immigration and Terrorism
| Related Publications: Video, Transcript Download the .pdf version OH GOD, you who open all doors, please open all doors for me, open all venues for me, open all avenues for me. -- Mohammed Atta Executive Summary Read more... |
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The Implications of the North American Free Trade Agreement for Workers
| This article examines the North American Free Trade Agreement's (NAFTA) implications for workers in the United States and Mexico and recommends policies to make any compact between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico more beneficial to the residents of all three countries. Regardless of what happens to NAFTA, the U.S. Read more... |
A Shifting Tide: Recent Trends in the Illegal Immigrant Population
| Monthly Census Bureau data show that the number of less-educated young Hispanic immigrants in the country has declined significantly. The evidence indicates that the illegal population declined after July 2007 and then rebounded somewhat in the summer of 2008 before resuming its decline in the fall of 2008 and into the first quarter of 2009. Read more... |
Dirty Work: In-Sourcing American Jobs with H-2B Guestworkers
| Download a pdf of this Backgrounder CIS Fellow David Seminara is a Chicago-based writer and was a tenured member of the U.S. Foreign Service from 2002-2007. A prior version of this article was published on the CIS website. The current version, which supersedes earlier versions, includes revisions that take account of information subsequently supplied to the author. Read more... |
Immigration Policy Decision-Making by Insulated Decision-Makers
| The elite establishmentarians who make immigration policy — senators, foundation heads, ranking federal officials, corporate CEOs, and their ilk — are totally out of touch with the mass of Americans who are impacted by those policy decisions. And the former's mas-migration decisions reflect this. The policymakers' kids and grandkids, of course, do not compete with international migrants for jobs at the bottom of the labor market. Likewise, the policymakers typically do not experience first-hand the impacts of over-population by, say, riding the New York subways. Read more... |
Projecting Immigration’s Impact on the Size and Age Structure of the 21st Century American Population
| Using data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau, this study first recreates the Bureau's most recent population projections. We then vary the level of net immigration (the difference between those coming and those leaving) to discern its impact on the U.S. population. The findings show that immigration makes for a much larger overall population, while having only a small effect on slowing the aging of American society. Read more... |
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Five Myths about Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants in Senate Bill
| President Obama and the Gang of Eight senators are repeating a number of talking points designed to elicit support for amnesty, or as they call it, "'earned legalization," for immigrants who have come to the United States illegally. The so-called "path to citizenship" is part of a bipartisan Senate immigration bill. Read more... |
Remittances Abet Mexican Officials’ Irresponsible Behavior
| A new report analyzing the impact of remittances sent by Mexicans living abroad on the self-serving behavior of Mexican governors and mayors. These monies that benefit Mexican families take the pressure off local and state leaders to deploy public funds to uplift the poor in their jurisdictions. Not surprisingly, these officials strongly advocate a robust U.S. immigration reform which, if enacted, would doubtless increase remittances to loved ones in Mexico. Read more... |
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A Record-Setting Decade of Immigration: 2000-2010
| New data from the Census Bureau show that the nation’s immigrant population (legal and illegal), also referred to as the foreign-born, reached 40 million in 2010, the highest number in American history. Nearly 14 million new immigrants (legal and illegal) settled in the country from 2000 to 2010, making it the highest decade of immigration in American history. Read more... |
What Can We Expect on Immigration in the House?
| House Judiciary chairman Bob Goodlatte posted yesterday at National Review Online, objecting to NRO reporter Andrew Stiles's report suggesting that the chairman was boosting the anemic prospects of the Senate's Gang of Eight amnesty bill. He wrote that he has not wavered in his belief that the comprehensive Schumer-Rubio bill passed by the Senate is "fundamentally flawed and unworkable" and that he is pursuing a "step-by-step approach to immigration reform" by considering targeted legislation addressing discrete issues. Read more... |
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No Coyote Needed
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Immigrants in the United States — 2000
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Allowing Non-Citizens to Vote in the United States? Why Not
| In recent years, a concerted effort has been gathering force to allow new immigrants to the United States to vote without becoming citizens. It is being mounted by an alliance of liberal (or progressive, if you prefer) academics and law professors, local and state political leaders most often associated with the Democratic Party or other progressive parties like the Greens, and community and immigration activists. They are working in tandem to decouple the legal standing to vote from American citizenship. Read more... |
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Center for Immigration Studies on the New Arizona Immigration Law, SB1070
| Related Content: Arizona Law SB 1070 Topic Page WASHINGTON (April 29, 2010) – The new law recently signed by the governor of Arizona, SB 1070, makes it a crime to violate some federal immigration statutes. While the law is extremely popular in the state, with 70 percent of Arizona voters approving of it and just 23 percent opposed, it has raised controversy. Below is a brief summary of the relevant information on illegal immigration in Arizona, followed by a short analysis of SB 1070’s major provisions. Illegal immigration in Arizona: Read more... |
Multiculturalism in the U.S.: Cultural Narcissism and the Politics of Recognition
| Multiculturalism in the United States has a long silent history. The United States has, from its founding, taken in immigrants from different cultural backgrounds, many of whom were, at the time, controversial. First, it was the Germans who raised questions about whether they could or would become "real Americans." Then questions were raised about the Chinese and after them Irish and the Eastern European immigrants. Now it is Hispanic-Americans and Muslim-Americans of whom we ask those questions. Read more... |
Immigrant Gains and Native Losses in the U.S. Job Market, 2000 to 2010
| Testimony Prepared for House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims United States Congress March 10, 2011 By Steven A. Camarota Director of Research Center for Immigration Studies 1522 K St. NW, Suite 820 Washington, DC 20005 (202) 466 8185 fax: (202) 466 8076 sac@cis.org www.cis.org Read more... |
"Immigration Reform" Equals Amnesty for Illegal Aliens and Their Employers
| Download a pdf of this Backgrounder Ronald W. Mortensen, PhD, is a retired career U.S. Foreign Service Officer and former Society for Human Resource Management senior executive. am·nes·ty (am-nuh-stee) an act of forgiveness for past offenses, especially to a class of persons as a whole. Read more... |
Immigrant Gains and Native Losses In the Job Market, 2000 to 2013
| While jobs are always being created and lost, and the number of workers rises and falls with the economy, a new analysis of government data shows that all of the net gain in employment over the last 13 years has gone to immigrants (legal and illegal). From the first quarter of 2000 to the first quarter of 2013, the number of natives working actually fell by 1.3 million while the overall size of the working-age (16 to 65) native population increased by 16.4 million. Over the same time period, the number of immigrants working (legal and illegal) increased by 5.3 million. Read more... |
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Immigration and the SPLC
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Birthright Citizenship for Children of Foreign Diplomats?
| Related: TV Interview Download a pdf of this Backgrounder PART II: "Why the Citizenship Clause Should Be Taken More Seriously" Jon Feere is the Legal Policy Analyst at the Center for Immigration Studies. Read more... |
Public Charge Doctrine: A Fundamental Principle of American Immigration Policy
| Download this Backgrounder as a pdf The public charge doctrine is one of the oldest and most venerated components of American immigration policy. It continues to be debated by policymakers and reported in the news, for this provision is as timely and central today as it was in America's earliest days. Read more... |
Increasing the Supply of Labor Through Immigration: Measuring the Impact on Native-born Workers
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