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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... |
No 9/11 Hijackers Came Through Canada, But That Doesn't Mean Canada Is Terrorist-Free
| How is it that seven and a half years after September 11, and nearly five years after the 9/11 Commission published its 2004 Final Report and the 9/11 and Terrorist Travel monograph whose purpose was to explain in detail how the 9/11 hijackers got in and stayed in the United States, we are still discussing the issue? Read more... |
All College Student (F-1) Visa Fraud Comes in Three Parts
| Recent news reports reminded me that all higher education immigration fraud, through the massive F-1 visa program, is divided into three parts: There are the individual students who drop out of legitimate universities to become illegal aliens on their own; There are visa mills which are distinctly illegitimate establishments; they recruit would-be illegal aliens, and, in effect, charge them substantial fees for their F-1 visas; or they operate marginal operations more keyed to profits than to education; and Read more... |
Raul Grijalva: From Chicano Radical to Congressman
| Download a pdf of this Memorandum. Jerry Kammer is a Senior Research Fellow a the Center for Immigration Studies. Read more... |
Keeping Extremists Out: The History of Ideological Exclusion and the Need for Its Revival
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Immigration, Population, and the Environment: Experts to Debate Impact of Current Policies
| Related Publications: Transcript, Backgrounder Due to the length of the panel, the video had to be split into two parts. Part I: Panelist Statements Part II: Question and Answer Session Read more... |
E-Verify: Challenges and Opportunities
| Testimony for the Record Before the U.S. HOUSE COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND GOVERNMENT REFORM Subcommittee on Management, Organization and Procurement, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform July 23, 2009 10:00 AM Room 2154 Rayburn Read more... |
A New Era of Refugee Resettlement
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Panel Video: Deception and Disorder in America’s Immigration Courts
| Related Publications: Paper, Transcript Introduction by Mark Krikorian Mark Metcalf's Statement Grisel Ibarra's Statement Read more... |
The Golden Years?
| 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. Washington is consumed with budget politics, connected with the increase in the federal debt ceiling enacted in August 2011. The Budget Control Act, which raised the national debt limit by $2.1 trillion to $16.4 trillion, requires corresponding paring of the federal deficit. Read more... |
Shaping Illinois: The Effects of Immigration, 1970-2020
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Immigration Policy in Free Societies: Are There Principles Involved or Is It All Politics?
| Download a pdf of this Backgrounder. Vernon Briggs, Jr., is a CIS Board member and an Emeritus Professor of Labor and Human Resource Economics at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. Before joining the faculty at Cornell, he taught at Michigan State University and the University of Texas at Austin. This paper originally appeared in The Effects of Mass Immigration, copyright 2009 by the Fraser Institute. Reprinted with permission. Read more... |
Panel Transcript: Our Borders a Decade After 9/11
| Related Publications: Memorandum, Panel Video, Topic Moderator: Mark Krikorian, Executive Director, Center for Immigration Studies Panelists: Representative Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI), Chairman of the Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security Subcommittee, House Committee on the Judiciary Janice Kephart, Director of National Security Policy, Center for Immigration Studies 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... |
Immigration in an Aging Society: Workers, Birth Rates, and Social Security
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Immigration, Both Legal and Illegal, Puts Huge Strain on the Country
| North County (Calif.) Times, December 15, 2007 Read more... |
Why Scrap the Per-Country Cap?
| Once again, the current Congress is under pressure to change fundamental parts of our immigration system in order to fix the problems created by previous Congresses that were too generous. Special interest groups are pushing to eliminate provisions in immigration law that now help prevent green card allocations from being monopolized by immigrants from just a few countries. If the proposed changes are approved this month by the U.S. Read more... |
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Immigration-Related Dissertations - 2010
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Some Visa Categories Are More Vulnerable than Others
| Download a pdf of this Memorandum David North is a CIS fellow who has studied the interaction of immigration and U.S. labor markets for more than 30 years. Read more... |
DHS Gives Some Criminals Permanent Protected Status
| In one of the most absurd examples of immigration enforcement malpractice yet, this week ICE is planning to take a pass on removing a criminal alien convicted of vehicular manslaughter. On Friday, November 16, exactly two years after Roberto Galo struck and killed motorcyclist Drew Rosenberg while making an illegal left turn in a car he was unlicensed and uninsured to drive, Galo is scheduled to be released from a California jail. Read more... |
Secure Communities by the Numbers, Revisited (Part 1 of 3)
| Download a pdf of this Memorandum Read Part 2 Read Part 3 W.D. Reasoner (a pseudonym) is a retired government employee with many years of experience in immigration administration, law enforcement, and national security matters. Jessica M. Vaughan is Director of Policy Studies at CIS. Summary Read more... |
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Immigration-Related Statistics, 1993
| Statistical indicators in 1993 show immigration continuing to increase in total numbers, and the U. S. foreign born similarly increasing in numbers and in their share of the overall U.S. population. The Census Bureau recognized in a December 1992 report that the nation's population will not peak in 2040 and then begin to decline, as it projected for the "middle" scenario in its 1989 report. Rather, U.S. population will still be sharply climbing as it passes 400 million shortly after the year 2050. Read more... |
Restore Our Border: A year after Arizona rancher Rob Krentz’s murder, it’s time to implement a blueprint for border control
| National Review Online, March 28, 2011 Yesterday marked the first anniversary of the murder of Arizona rancher Rob Krentz by an illegal alien. His death was especially shocking because Krentz had no involvement with the illicit traffic across our border with Mexico — previously, the violence had been almost completely confined to, for instance, illegal aliens held for ransom by their smugglers, or drug dealers fighting over their contraband, or law-enforcement officers upholding the laws of the United States. Read more... |
Immigration, Population, and the Environment: Experts to Debate Impact of Current Policies
| Related Publications: Video, Backgrounder MODORATOR: STEVEN CAMAROTA, DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH,CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES SPEAKERS: PHILIP CAFARO, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY ANDREW LIGHT, SENIOR FELLOW, CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS, DIRECTOR, CENTER FOR GLOBAL ETHICS, GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY DON WEEDEN, DIRECTOR, THE WEEDEN FOUNDATION 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... |