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"Cast Down Your Bucket Where You Are" Black Americans on Immigration
| Foreword On the issue of immigration, contemporary Americans, and especially African Americans, need to be guided by two lessons from history. The first, from the New Testament, says that "without vision, the people perish." The second warns that "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Read more... |
Embracing America: A Look at Which Immigrants Become Citizens
| Related Publications: Video "Naturalization is the most visible manifestation of Americanization." – The late Barbara Jordan, Commission on Immigration Reform Executive Summary Read more... |
Doctors and Nurses: A Demographic Profile
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Quality of Life in the 21st Century
| Two items, apparently unrelated, appeared in the nation's press recently. First, the Census Bureau released its latest population projections to the year 2050; second, Congress rejected legislation lowering legal immigration. Despite appearances, however, the events are intimately connected: Congress's inaction on legal immigration will help drive the continued rapid population growth projected by the Census Bureau. Read more... |
Forget Diplomatic Immunity -- How about 'Illegal-Alien Immunity'?
| Most Americans have heard of diplomatic immunity -- it provides accredited diplomats with protection from legal action in the foreign countries where they live and work. Seizing on this concept, illegal immigrants and their supporters now claim what amounts to "illegal-alien immunity" for millions of foreign nationals who live and work unlawfully in the United States. Read more... |
The Medicaid Costs of Legalizing Illegal Aliens
| Download a pdf of this Memorandum James R. Edwards, Jr., is a Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies. Read more... |
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... |
What the DACA Ordered
| The Obama administration's two-year amnesty of up to two million illegal aliens has seen the same administration opt to exclude these temporarily amnestied individuals from health benefits afforded through the health reform law. This decision has raised the ire of ethnic advocacy groups and amnesty proponents. Read more... |
The Revolving Door
| Download a pdf of this Memorandum Peter A. Schulkin received his PhD in economics from Harvard and is former Director of Research for the National Association of Real Estate Investor Trusts and former Senior Vice President of a real estate arm of Wells Fargo & Co. He has taught at several universities, including UCLA. Read more... |
O Brother, Where Art Thou? The Immigration Case
| The answer to the headline's question in a recent immigration case is: "Right here, boss." I will get to the specifics in a minute. This is another instance of an obscure appeals agency, in keeping with the administration's policy tilt, reversing a sensible staff decision on an immigration matter. Read more... |
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Shaping Texas: The Effects of Immigration, 1970-2020
| Introduction Texas overtook New York in 1994 as the nation's second most populous state, according to the Census Bureau. This may be due to Texans, noted hospitality. But could that population growth be too much of a good thing? This paper addresses that question, and it calls on Texans to consider where the state is headed. Read more... |
Remaking the Political Landscape: The Impact of Illegal and Legal Immigration on Congressional Apportionment
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Birth Rates Among Immigrants in America: Comparing Fertility in the U.S. and Home Countries
| Download this Backgrounder as a pdf Analysis of data collected by Census Bureau in 2002 shows that women from the top-10 immigrant- sending countries living in the United States collectively tend to have higher fertility than women in their home countries. As a group, immigrants from these countries have 23 percent more children than women in their home countries, adding to world population growth. Among the findings: Read more... |
Two Sides of the Same Coin: The Connection Between Legal and Illegal Immigration
| Download the .pdf version Are massive legal immigration and massive illegal immigration related? If so, how? Many in policy circles hold a view of "Legal immigration, good; illegal immigration, bad."1 The logical extensions of such a simplistic perspective are to assume that the overall level of legal immigration does not matter and to underestimate any correlation to illegal immigration. But the facts show a distinct connection exists. In brief, this report finds: Read more... |
Illegal Immigrants and HR 3200: Estimate of Potential Costs to Taxpayers
| Based on our analysis of Census Bureau data, we estimate that there are 6.6 million uninsured illegal immigrants in the United States who could be covered by the new health care reform bill (HR 3200). Even though HR 3200 states that illegal immigrants are not eligible for the proposed taxpayer-funded affordable premium credits, there is nothing in the bill to enforce this. An amendment was defeated in committee that would have required the use of the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program, used by almost all other means-tested programs of this kind. Read more... |
H-1B + K-12 = ?
| Note: Updated April 17, 2011 David North is a CIS Fellow. While the greatest use – and therefore misuse – of the H-1B nonimmigrant foreign worker program takes place in the high-tech industries, there is a substantial use, particularly in New York City and in Texas, of the H-1B program to import K-12 teachers from overseas and thus to deprive American teachers of jobs. There are a number of serious implications of this trend, some troubling, some bizarre, and others merely puzzling. Read more... |
Refugee Resettlement
| Download a pdf of this backgrounder CIS Fellow Don Barnett writes frequently on asylum and refugee immigration. His most recent Backgrounder was “A New Era of Refugee Resettlement.” Mr. Barnett’s e-mail address is dabarnett@bellsouth.net. 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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Pro-Immigration Congressional Republicans Do Not Perform Better Among Latino Voters
| The Democratic Party enjoys a sizable advantage among Latino voters. It is largely taken for granted that Republicans can earn a greater share of the Latino vote if they support less restrictive immigration policies and legalization for illegal immigrants. This study examines public opinion data from 2006 to consider whether this is the case. Read more... |
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Implementation of an Entry-Exit System
| Tracking the arrival and departure of foreign visitors to the United States is an essential part of immigration control, with collateral effects on law enforcement and national security. The need for arrival controls is obvious, but recording departures is also important; without it, there is no way to know whether travelers have left when they were supposed to. Creating a feasible and cost-effective solution for foreign visitors has emerged as the linchpin in fully implementing the eight statutes first passed beginning 16 years ago. Read more... |
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Immigration, Population, and the New Census Bureau Projections
| On January 13, 2000, the Census Bureau released its latest U.S. population projections, as it does every few years. This time, perhaps prompted by the changing century and millennium, Census demographers peered further than ever before, all the way to the year 2100.1 What they saw is ominous: The most probable "middle series" scenario envisions more than a doubling of the already large U.S. population and a dramatic shift from our nation's current ethnic/racial composition. Read more... |
American Unionism and U.S. Immigration Policy
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Immigration Is Hurting The U.S. Worker
| Americas Quarterly, Spring 2007 The United States needs fewer immigrants, not more. Lower levels of immigration, both legal and illegal make sense for my country because the growing number of undereducated people crossing our borders have hurt less educated native-born workers. The U.S. needs to focus on reducing overall immigration levels. This means a drop in the number of immigrants from Latin America, which accounts for half of the new arrivals, many of them at the lower end of the educational spectrum. Read more... |
The Impact of Immigration on the American Workforce
| Testimony prepared for the House Committee on Education and the Workforce November 16, 2005 Steven A. Camarota Director of Research, Center for Immigration Studies Introduction Read more... |
Pull factor down in U.S. Push factor up in Mexico. Trouble predicted.
| Unemployment is growing in the United States, and CIS has recently reported that immigrants are being hit harder than natives by the ongoing recession. That means a sharp reduction in the pull factor in illegal immigration. But a study by Mexican researcher Clemente Ruiz Duran indicates that the recession in Mexico is intensifying the push factor of unemployment. Read more... |