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Immigration and the SPLC
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The Life of Julia, Amnesty Applicant
| In May 2012, the Obama re-election campaign released a slideshow titled, "The Life of Julia" which promoted the idea that government programs and President Obama's agenda items were critical to the success of a hypothetical female named Julia. The campaign effort received a lot of criticism from both conservatives and liberals and led to many parodies. The original version was quickly taken down after the election. Read more... |
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No Coyote Needed
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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... |
Bar None: An Evaluation of the 3/10-Year Bar
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Immigration’s Impact on U.S. Workers
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Giving Cover to Illegal Aliens: IRS Tax ID Numbers Subvert Immigration Law
| Download this Backgrounder as a pdf Through its issuance of Individual Tax Identification Numbers (ITINs), the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) appears to be blind or indifferent to the reality that it has: created an official U.S. tax number that illegal aliens are using as identification, thereby making it easier for them to meld unnoticed into our society; 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... |
CFC Promotion Video
| The Center for Immigration Studies participates in the Combined Federal Campaign. Our CFC number is 10298. Read more... |
Birthright Citizenship for the Children of Visitors: A National Security Problem in the Making?
| Download a pdf of this Backgrounder W.D. Reasoner (a pseudonym) is a retired government employee with many years of experience in immigration administration, law enforcement, and national security matters. Amendment 14 Read more... |
Illegitimate Nation
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Child Tax Credits for Illegal Immigrants
| Download a pdf of this Backgrounder 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... |
Immigration, Population, and Economic Growth in El Paso, Texas
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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... |
Illegal Immigration and Immigration Reform: Protecting the Employment Rights of the American Labor Force (Native-Born and Foreign-Born) Who Are Eligible To Be Employed
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Illegal Immigration and the Colonization of the American Labor Market
| Introduction: The American Labor Market Twenty years ago the United States enacted an ambitious legislative program to get America moving. The 1964 tax cut and other economic policies spurred economic growth, while Congress was enacting a Civil Rights Act to end discrimination and President Johnson was launching the War on Poverty. 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... |
Public Opinion in Mexico on U.S. Immigration: Zogby Poll Examines Attitudes
| Click here to download a pdf version of this Backgrounder Steven A. Camarota is the Director of Research at the Center for Immigration Studies. Read more... |
Plenary Power: Should Judges Control U.S. Immigration Policy?
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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... |
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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Muslim Immigrants in the United States
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Immigrants from the Middle East
| Download this Backgrounder as a .pdf In the aftermath of September 11, there has been heightened interest in the Middle Eastern immigrant population living in the United States. Their integration and incorporation into American society has come to be seen as increasingly important. 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... |
REAL ID Implementation Annual Report
| Download a pdf of this Backgrounder Janice Kephart is the Director of National Security Policy at the Center for Immigration Studies. Thank you to Andrew Meehan for research support. Introduction Read more... |