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How Much Is that Tomato in the Window? Retail Produce Prices Without Illegal Farmworkers
| The removal of illegal workers from the seasonal agricultural workforce would increase the summer-fall supermarket prices of fresh fruits and vegetables by about 6 percent in the short run and 3 percent in the intermediate term. During the winter-spring seasons, prices would rise more than 3 percent in the short term and less then 2 percent in the intermediate term. Imports would increase about 1 percent. Read more... |
Immigration and California Communities
| A recent media headline during the governor's race in California in 1998 — "What a Difference Four Years Makes" — drew attention to the lack of any debate on the immigration issue. In 1994, in contrast, immigration was at the heart of gubernatorial debates in California. But has anything changed, especially at the local level? Are immigration's impacts different in 1998? Read more... |
Ethnicity, Immigration, and The American National Community
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Bar None: An Evaluation of the 3/10-Year Bar
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Out of Africa: Somali Bantu and the Paradigm Shift in Refugee Resettlement
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The Bottom of the Pay Scale: Wages for H-1B Computer Programmers
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Immigrants at Mid-Decade
| Download this Backgrounder as a pdf An analysis of Census Bureau data shows that the nation's foreign-born or immigrant population (legal and illegal) reached a new record of more than 35 million in March of 2005. The data also indicate that the first half of this decade has been the highest five-year period of immigration in American history. This Backgrounder provides a detailed picture of both numbers and the socio-economic status of immigrants. Among the report's findings: Read more... |
Low Salaries for Low Skills: Wages and Skill Levels for H-1B Computer Workers, 2005
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Does Immigration Harm the Poor?
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Controlling Illegal Immigration: There Are Ways, But Little Will
| Investor's Business Daily, March 21, 2001 "New data suggest that the U.S. has nearly twice the number of undocumented immigrants than officials thought - possibly 11 million or more, compared with earlier estimates of 6 million," the Los Angeles Times reports. Is this really a news flash? After all, the discussion of immigration in America has been based on the assumption that mass immigration from Mexico is inevitable, whether or not it is legally permitted. Read more... |
Too Many: Looking Today's Immigration in the Face
| National Review, July 29, 2002 When the history of the 1990s is written, the most important story may not be the GOP takeover of Congress, the boom economy, or the Clinton impeachment. The big story may be the decade's unprecedented level of immigration: a social phenomenon of enormous significance, affecting everything from the nation's schools to the political balance between the two parties. Read more... |
Immigration, Both Legal and Illegal, Puts Huge Strain on the Country
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Immigration's Impact On American Workers
| Testimony Prepared for the House Judiciary Committee August 29, 2006 Steven A. Camarota Director of Research, Center for Immigration Studies Introduction Read more... |
The State of Politics, Law, and Security in Mexico
| Speakers: George Grayson, Professor of Government, College of William and Mary David Shirk, Director, University of San Diego's Trans-Border Institute S. Lynne Walker, Mexico City Bureau Chief, Copley News Service Mark Krikorian, Executive Director, Center for Immigration Studies Moderator: Peter Nunez, Chairman, Center for Immigration Studies; Former U.S. Attorney, San Diego Read more... |
Immigration Enforcement Disrupts Criminal Gangs in Virginia
| Immigration law enforcement has been a key ingredient in the success of criminal gang suppression efforts in Virginia, says a new report by the Center for Immigration Studies. As state lawmakers consider steps to address the illegal immigration problem this session, they should give high priority to institutionalizing partnerships between state and local law enforcement agencies (LEAs) and federal immigration authorities (ICE), as well as to immigration’s fiscal costs. Read more... |
Latino Voting in the 2008 Election: Part of a Broader Electoral Movement
| The 2008 presidential election provided yet another opportunity to assess stability and change in the basic partisan commitments of voters. For almost 10 years now, leading GOP strategists have suggested that the party is on its way to making lasting inroads with Latino voters. Unfortunately, the 2008 results indicate that the party is no closer to this goal now than it was when it started. Exit polls on Election Night indicated that President-Elect Obama won 67 percent of the Latino vote; performing a bit better among Latino women (68 percent) than among Latino men (64 percent). (Results can be viewed on the CNN Election Center 2008 website at the following address, accessed December 15, 2008: http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/polls/#USP00p1.) The Pew Research Center’s national survey taken the weekend before Election Day showed virtually the same results: 32 percent for McCain and 68 percent for Obama. Read more... |
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Trends in Immigrant and Native Employment
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Forum Testimony: American Jobs in Peril
| On November 19, 2009, Judiciary Committee Republicans examined enforcement data and the impact of illegal immigration on American jobs at a forum entitled, "American Jobs in Peril: The Impact of Uncontrolled Immigration." Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX) Read more... |
How Obama Is Transforming America Through Immigration
| Order a copy of How Obama Is Transforming America Through Immigration at Amazon.com. How Obama is Transforming America Through Immigration by Mark Krikorian Encounter Broadsides, 2010 ISBN 1594034885 Read more... |
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A Drought of Summer Jobs: Immigration and the Long-Term Decline in Employment Among U.S.-Born Teenagers
| Download a pdf of this Backgrounder Related Publications: Video, Transcript Steven A. Camarota is the Director of Research and Karen Jensenius is a demographer at the Center for Immigration Studies. Read more... |
Similarities and Differences as U.K. and U.S. Face Immigration Decisions
| Both the British and American governments want to change their nations' immigration policies; both, apparently, are currently engaged in maneuvers that fuzz the issues. There are both parallels and differences between the two nations' systems, as they face similar questions: Should migration be reduced? And what should be done about the current population of illegal aliens? Read more... |
Children of Diplomats
| There's a wrinkle of the birthright citizenship debate that I think is telling. One thing that everyone accepts is that "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" excludes kids born here to representatives of foreign governments. Read more... |
Checks and Balances: Potential Areas for Congressional Oversight of Immigration Administration in the 112th Congress
| 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. Read more... |
Is There a Shortage of Skilled Foreign Workers?
| Download a pdf of this Backgrounder David North is a CIS fellow who has studied the interaction of immigration and U.S. labor markets for more than 30 years. There have been numerous recent proposals to increase the admission of skilled workers from abroad. This paper examines some of the issues surrounding the question of skilled immigration. The findings include: Read more... |
Court: No Green Card from Abuse by Bigamous Spouse
| One of the more obscure ways an alien can get a green card is to marry someone who turns out to be an abusive spouse, who is either a permanent resident alien or a USC, and then contend that the spouse abused you. That's OK generally, the Eleventh Circuit ruled recently in Alhuay v. U.S. Attorney General, but it does not work if you, the alien spouse, had married the abuser bigamously. The illegal alien woman who tried that argument, and lost, was Maria Gladys Alhuay, who married four different men, one of them twice. Chronologically, it goes like this: Read more... |