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Senate Stimulus: 300,000 Jobs for Illegals? - 1 in 7 New Construction Jobs Could Go to Illegal Immigrants
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So Much for "No Path to Citizenship" for DACA DREAMers
| When President Obama announced on June 15 that he would bypass Congress and offer legal status to the so-called DREAMers, he said: "Now, let's be clear — this is not amnesty, this is not immunity, this is not a path to citizenship." False on all three counts, as it turns out. Read more... |
Immigration-Related Statistics, 1995
| Introduction The number of legal immigrants and the number of apprehensions of illegal border crossers decreased in the past year. Yet it seems unlikely that the net increase in illegal immigration will have changed much from our previous estimate of 300,000 per year, and the overall number of immigrant newcomers still amounted to well over one million. Read more... |
Ethnicity, Immigration, and The American National Community
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Massachusetts Senate Attempts to Stop Illegal Alien Access to Driver's Licenses
| According to an article in the Boston Globe, the Massachusetts Senate seems to be locking horns again with the state's traditionally more liberal House over illegal immigration. The House for years has leaned toward supporting illegal immigration, and the state has not complied with federal driver's license standards or required verification that people are authorized to work. Read more... |
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... |
High DACA Approval Rate Raises Amnesty Questions
| Statistics from U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) indicate that the agency is rubber-stamping the applications for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. They report that 99.5 percent of applicants have been approved, which is well above approval rates for other legal programs, which have fraud and rejection rates in the double digits. Read more... |
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Welfare Use by Immigrant Households with Children: Panel to Examine New Report with Latest Data
| WASHINGTON (March 29, 2011) – A new Center for Immigration Studies report finds that, 13 years after welfare reform, the share of immigrant-headed households (legal and illegal) with a child (under age 18) using at least one welfare program continues to be very high. This is partly due to the large share of immigrants with low levels of education and their resulting low incomes – not their legal status or an unwillingness to work. The major welfare programs examined in this report include cash assistance, food assistance, Medicaid, and public and subsidized housing. 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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Now What? Immigration Edition
| Blaming Tuesday’s defeat solely on Mitt Romney would be a mistake. It’s true that he wasn’t a perfect candidate, but there’s no such thing as a perfect candidate. It’s true, too, that he’s proven flexible as to his policy positions; but the (Groucho) Marxian line that “if you don’t like my principles, I have others” is widely applicable to politicians. The question for conservatives and Republicans is what, if any, adjustments might be needed to the principles we ask aspiring politicians to pretend to hold. Read more... |
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Taking Names: List of Firms Barred from Foreign Worker Programs Likely Just Scratches the Surface
| David North is a CIS Fellow. The author is grateful to Sarah Wilhelm, then a CIS intern, for her assistance in annotating this list. Read more... |
ICE’s Mission Melt 5: Another No Confidence Vote for Morton
| On June 23, 2011, a press release was issued by the union representing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) employees stating that ICE “Union leaders around the nation issued a unanimous no confidence vote in ICE Director John Morton on behalf of ICE officers, agents and employees nationwide citing gross mismanagement within the Agency as well as efforts within ICE to create backdoor amnesty through agency policy. Read more... |
Marriage Fraud a Growing Problem
| Today Fox News highlighted the persistent problem of marriage fraud in the immigration process, and invited me to discuss the implications (view the video segment below). Marriage is the most common way for a foreign national to gain permanent residency – more than 415,000 marriage-based green cards were issued last year, and the number has grown by more than 50 percent in the last few years. More than two-thirds of these individuals are already living in the United States at the time of their green card application. Read more... |
New DHS Estimates Confirm that Illegal Immigrant Population Stopped Declining Under Obama
| In February of this year, the Center for Immigration Studies issued a press release reporting that preliminary analysis of Census Bureau data showed the illegal population held roughly steady from January 1, 2009 (the month Obama took office), to January 1, 2011. The just-released Department of Homeland Security (DHS) estimates for 2011 confirm our prior observations. Read more... |
Religious Agencies and Refugee Resettlement
| Dowload 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... |
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... |
Job Growth in Texas – Responding to Criticism
| In our new report on jobs in Texas we showed that newly arrived immigrants got most of the recent job growth in that state. There has been some criticism of the report, some from people who apparently did not read it. The comments below, which were forwarded to us, seem to be representative, so I want to address them. Read more... |
Who Pays? Foreign Students Do Not Help with the Balance of Payments
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Sunshine, Saguaros, and Smugglers
| In late February, the Center for Immigration Studies hosted its second tour of the southwest border. Last year we explored the eastern half of Arizona and this year we began just west of Yuma in the Imperial Valley of California. Led by Jerry Kammer, our group crisscrossed almost a thousand miles, from the dunes around Algodones to the eastern portions of the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge near Tucson. We saw captivating landscapes and got invaluable insight on the human and drug cartels that operate in the area. Read more... |
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Catholics, Immigration, and the Common Good
| Click here to download a pdf version of this Backgrounder Fr. Dominique Peridans is an Associate Pastor at a Roman Catholic parish in Maryland. 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... |
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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Birth Tourism Baby Calls United States a "Foreign Country"
| Yet another newspaper has reported evidence backing the claim that birth tourism creates U.S. citizens who take advantage of everything the United States has to offer while maintaining allegiance to the country in which they were actually raised. Read more... |
The Coming Conflict Over Asylum: Does America Need a New Asylum Policy?
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USCIS Sheds a Little Light on Denial Rates
| Denial rates in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) amnesty are still being kept under wraps by USCIS, but some light was shed on related subjects recently; further, the agency earlier released some numbers on non-DACA denial rates. As many have noticed, USCIS is much more likely to talk about case volume (receipts) or grants (approvals) than it is about denials of applications. This is in keeping with its self-image as a benefit-granting agency. Read more... |