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A Plan to Address Birth Tourism
| Download a pdf of this Memorandum Malcolm Pearl is a pseudonym for a Foreign Service officer who has served abroad as a consular officer. Summary Read more... |
Panel Transcript: Crime Challenges from Illegal Immigration
| Related Publications: Video Moderator: Jessica Vaughan, Director of Policy Studies, Center for Immigration Studies Speakers: Representative Steve King (R-IA), Vice Chairman, Immigration Subcommittee, U.S. House of Representatives Sam Page, Sheriff, Rockingham County, North Carolina Steve Henry, Chief Deputy Sheriff, Pinal County, Arizona Dan Altena, Sheriff, Sioux County, Iowa Transcript by 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... |
Is President Obama Right About Engineers?
| Download a pdf of this Memorandum. Steven Camarota is the Director of Research at the Center for Immigration Studies. Read more... |
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Who Got Jobs During the Obama Presidency?
| A new analysis of government data shows that two-thirds of the net increase in employment since President Obama took office has gone to immigrant workers, primarily legal immigrants. Although the level of new immigration overall has fallen, legal immigration remains very high. While economists debate the extent to which immigrants displace natives, the new data make clear that there is no general labor shortage in the United States. This analysis calls into question the wisdom of bringing in more than a million new legal immigrants each year at a time when the employment situation remains bleak. Read more... |
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Senate Bill Doubles Annual Flow of Guest Workers
| he Schumer-Rubio bill, which will be debated by the full Senate starting next week, would allow unprecedented increases in the number of temporary workers. A new Center for Immigration Studies analysis of the bill finds that, in the first year, the bill (S.744) would admit nearly 1.6 million more temporary workers than currently allowed. After that initial spike, the bill would increase annual temporary worker admissions by more than 600,000 each year over the current level – an increase four times larger than the one called for in the 2007 Bush-Kennedy proposal (about 125,000). Read more... |
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Virginia, Not ICE, Closes Suspect University of Northern Virginia
| The University of Northern Virginia (UNVA) — a very marginal institution that relied heavily on foreign students, notably those from India, and that was raided two years ago by Immigration and Customs Enforcement — was closed Wednesday, July 17, by the State of Virginia, not by ICE. As is all too often the case, an institution outside the immigration business has stepped in and done the work that should have been done by the Department of Homeland Security, as the Securities and Exchange Commission did recently in a $145 million immigrant investor (EB-5) fraud case I described in an earlier blog. Read more... |
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Necessity Is the Mother of Invention - and Realism: Canada's Wake-Up Call
| "Necessity is the mother of invention." Aesop's insight continues to be true in the various facets of life — both personal and societal. For immigration and immigration policy, too, necessity is the mother of invention. Actually, it is perhaps more accurate to say, in the case of immigration, that "necessity is the mother of realism". Necessity can be a reality check — much as we see in the Biblical story of the prodigal son, whose hunger (necessity) prompts his "coming to his senses" (Luke 15:17). Our neighbors to the north, known for their peaceful juxtaposition and quiet reserve, and also known as a nation that proactively promotes multiculturalism, because of necessity are re-evaluating their approach to and standards for immigration. An interesting recent Wall Street Journal article highlights this. Read more... |
Shaping Georgia: The Effects of Immigration, 1970-2020
| Introduction Georgia is now the eleventh largest state in the nation, according to the Census Bureau. Next to Florida, Georgia is the fastest growing state in the South. Over the past 25 years, the state's growth has been nearly double the overall rate of increase for the nation. But could that population growth be too much of a good thing? This paper addresses that question, and calls on Georgians to consider where the state is headed. Read more... |
Dual Citizens in America: An Issue of Vast Proportions and Broad Significance
| Fueled in part by enormous and, in this century, unprecedented numbers of new immigrants, the United States is becoming dramatically more diverse ‹ racially, ethnically, and culturally. Read more... |
Immigrants in the United States - 2002
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100 Million More: Projecting the Impact of Immigration On the U.S. Population, 2007 to 2060
| This study uses Census Bureau data to project how different levels of immigration impact population size and the aging of American society. The findings show that the current level of net immigration (1.25 million a year) will add 105 million to the nation’s population by 2060. While immigration makes the population larger, it has a small effect on the aging of society. Read more... |
How the Terrorists Get In
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How Many Mail-Order Brides?
| pp. 7-10 in Immigration Review no. 28, Spring 1997 The INS later published a version of this entitled "The 'Mail-Order Bride' Industry and Its Impact on U.S. Immigration" "Heaven is having a Japanese wife, a Chinese cook, a British country home and an American salary. Hell, on the other hand, is having a Chinese salary, a British cook, a Japanese house and an American wife." Read more... |
Facts on Immigration and Health Insurance
| A List of Related Publications Click here to download a pdf version of this Memorandum Steven A. Camarota is the Director of Research at the Center for Immigration Studies. Read more... |
A Biblical Perspective on Immigration Policy
| Click here to download a pdf version of this Backgrounder CIS Fellow James R. Edwards, Jr., PhD, is coauthor of The Congressional Politics of Immigration Reform. He contributed a chapter related to this topic to Carol M. Swain’s Debating Immigration, and his speech at Malone College’s Worldview Forum was published in Vital Speeches of the Day. Read more... |
Welfare Use By Immigrant- and Native-Headed Households with Children
| In 2008, 53 percent of all households headed by an immigrant (legal or illegal) with one or more children under age 18 used at least one welfare program, compared to 36 percent for native households with children. Immigrant use of welfare tends to be much higher than natives for food assistance programs and Medicaid. Use of cash and housing programs tends to be very similar to natives. A large share of the welfare used by immigrants is received on behalf of their U.S.-born children. But even households with children comprised entirely of immigrants still have a welfare use rate of 47 percent. Read more... |
Immigration, Political Realignment, and the Demise of Republican Political Prospects
| Related Publications: Panel Video, Panel Transcript Download a pdf of this Backgrounder James G. Gimpel is a professor of government at the University of Maryland, College Park. He can be reached at jgimpel@gvpt.umd.edu. Read more... |
REAL ID Implementation Embraced by 41 States
| Janice Kephart is the Director of National Security Policy at the Center for Immigration Studies. Read more... |
DREAM Act: Rewarding Illegal Behavior to Build the New American Utopia
| Advocates for illegal aliens have discovered the solution to our economic woes — the DREAM Act. If everyone would just stop complaining and praise President Obama for his efforts to stimulate the economy by legalizing illegal aliens, we would take another great leap forward toward utopia. Read more... |
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Amnesty and the U.S. Labor Market
| The president and his political allies seem to believe that the kinds of jobs done by such workers are plentiful. However, the findings of this report show that the employment picture is bleak for less-educated native-born Americans, who are the most likely to compete with illegal immigrants for jobs. Read more... |
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An Interview with FDNS Architect Don Crocetti
| The Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate (FDNS) of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service was created to determine whether individuals or organizations filing for immigration benefits pose a threat to national security, public safety, or the integrity of the nation’s legal immigration system. The following is an interview with Don Crocetti, who is the architect and former Chief of FDNS. Read more... |
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Must-Read Articles on the Schumer-Rubio Bill
| As the bill likely comes to a final vote today, the analysis below should give all Americans pause. The proposed amnesty for 11 million and massive increase in legal immigration lacks any real enforcement and would have serious fiscal and economic implications. It is also loaded with slush funds and stimulus money. Read more... |
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Motivation For Hiring Alien Workers?
| Why do U.S.-based employers, who are quite happy to make things in the United States, sell things to American consumers, and accept lush contracts and tax-breaks from Uncle Sam, want to hire temporary foreign workers, such as those in the H-1B program? Read more... |
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Good Reason to Say "No" to Amnesty: It Helps South-of-Border Tyrants
| Leonel J. Castillo, Jimmy Carter's INS commissioner, and I tangled on a number of issues, but he was absolutely right on one thing — the outflow of illegals from Mexico assured the continuation in power of Mexico's despots. His notion was that if the poverty-stricken in that country did not have the option of immigration to the United States, legally or illegally, they would form a critical mass that would force change — perhaps violently — on the Mexican government. Mexico, after all, has an even more lop-sided distribution of income than we do. As long as the migrants were in the United States they would not disturb the Mexican establishment, but they would send back remittances to family members, providing a social safety net to their relatives that the state did not offer. The whole thing was a win-win situation for Mexico's rulers. Read more... |
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