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New Study Examines Immigrants at State Level
| Using the latest Census Bureau data from 2010 and 2011, the study reveals recent trends on a state by state basis. View individual state press releases above. Read more... |
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The Obama Administration’s 287(g): An Analysis of the New MOA
| Download a pdf of this Memorandum Jon Feere is the Legal Policy Analyst at the Center for Immigration Studies. Read more... |
Nibbling Around the Immigration Edges in U.S. vs. Big Ideas in U.K.
| Here's an across-the-pond contrast in immigration policy-making. Over here, the House has passed and the Senate is considering HR 3012, a bill which will not add any visas to those currently authorized, but will give some long-term applicants – those from India and China – quicker green cards, while slowing the issuance of those documents to people from other nations, Korea and Mexico, for instance. The mass migration people seem to think this tinkering would be a triumph for them. In short, a minor change. Read more... |
Immigration Is Hurting The U.S. Worker
| Americas Quarterly, Spring 2007 The United States needs fewer immigrants, not more. Lower levels of immigration, both legal and illegal make sense for my country because the growing number of undereducated people crossing our borders have hurt less educated native-born workers. The U.S. needs to focus on reducing overall immigration levels. This means a drop in the number of immigrants from Latin America, which accounts for half of the new arrivals, many of them at the lower end of the educational spectrum. Read more... |
Why the Tea Party Movement Must Oppose Illegal Immigration and Amnesty
| While I was working on legislation designed to address the problems associated with illegal alien driven, child identity theft in Utah, a supporter of the "Tea Party" movement asked me why I was so concerned about illegal immigration. "After all, aren't illegal immigrants just good, hard working people who are trying to make a better life for themselves and their families," he asked. I responded that illegal immigration is a direct to threat to constitutionally limited government, the rule of law, free markets, private property, individual freedom, and fiscal responsibility. Read more... |
MALDEF, NILC, ACLU Misrepresent DACA in Lawsuit Against Arizona
| A coalition of high-immigration activist groups has filed a lawsuit against Arizona over the state's decision to not issue driver's licenses to illegal aliens granted deferred action (DACA) by President Obama. In their complaint, the groups misrepresent DACA, inaccurately describing the program's eligibility criteria. Specifically, the attorneys wrote: Read more... |
Upholding the Value of Our Citizenship
| This paper examines the surprising number of naturalized citizens who have been charged and convicted of serious national security crimes — including terrorism, espionage, and theft of sensitive information and technology — in the last several years. It compares the relative ease with which aliens naturalize with the extreme difficulty in stripping them of citizenship, even when they prove to be national security threats who have gamed the system. Read more... |
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Doctors and Nurses: A Demographic Profile
| http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1881290085/centerforimmigra/002-1... Read more... |
Panel: Illegal, But Not Undocumented
| Related Publications: Video, Backgrounder, Blog MODERATOR: MARK KRIKORIAN, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, CIS SPEAKERS: RON MORTENSEN, FORMER FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICER JANICE KEPHART, DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES, CIS STEWART BAKER, FORMER POLICY DIRECTOR, DHS Transcript by Federal News Service Read more... |
Lawsuit Documents Criminal Alien Releases, Decline in Enforcement, Cooked Statistics
| On April 8, a federal judge in Dallas heard arguments in Crane v Napolitano, the lawsuit brought by 10 ICE officers challenging the Obama administration's Deferred Action program (DACA) and "prosecutorial discretion" policies. Read more... |
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Cantigny Conference Series: Immigration and Citizenship in America
| Read a summary of the proceedings INTRODUCTION Introduction and List of Conference Participants Read more... |
US-VISIT Is Now the Office of Biometric Identity Management (and That's a Good Thing)
| Every day, 30,000 authorized federal, state, and local government users query US-VISIT's data in order to accurately identify people and determine whether they pose a risk to the United States. US-VISIT supplies the technology for collecting and storing biometric data, provides analysis of the data to decision-makers, and ensures the integrity of the data. By using biometrics, US-VISIT is helping to prevent the use of fraudulent documents, protect visitors from identity theft, and stop thousands of criminals and immigration violators from entering the country. — US-VISIT website Read more... |
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America's Identity Crisis: Document Fraud is Pervasive and Pernicious
| Download this Backgrounder as a pdf Panel Discussion Transcript Read more... |
Utah Enacts Universal Mandatory E-Verify Bill
| Yesterday Utah Governor Gary Herbert signed a bill into law requiring Utah employers to use E-Verify to make sure their workers are legal. The bill passed both chambers of the legislature with large margins, making Utah the fourth state to require all employers to verify their workers (the others are Arizona, Mississippi, and South Carolina). Read more... |
How Many Amnestied Illegals Will There Be in Your State?
| The proposed legalization of some 10 million illegal aliens has been debated as a national issue, as it should be, but the on-the-ground impact will vary tremendously from place to place within America. To get estimates of the likely state-by-state distribution of those to be amnestied should S.744 become law I turned to an existing data set that, to my knowledge, has not been used for that purpose. Read more... |
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Upcoming Panel: Our Borders a Decade after 9/11
| WASHINGTON (September 2011) – Ten years after 19 foreign hijackers staged the 9/11 attacks, much has changed in America's immigration and border-control policies, and much has not. The Center for Immigration Studies will host a panel discussion to examine what's been done in immigration and related areas since 9/11 to strengthen America's security and what challenges remain. The panel discussion will be on Thursday, September 15, at 9 a.m., in Room 2237 of Rayburn House Office Building. The speakers will include: Read more... |
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Evaluating the Role of Immigration in U.S. Population Projections
| Presented at the Population Association of American Annual Meeting, May 2012, San Francisco Abstract Read more... |
The Politics and Practicalities of Exit Controls: Report from a Center for Immigration Studies Symposium
| Download a pdf version of this Memorandum The 9/11 Commission recommended a biometric screening system for foreign visitors, upon both entry to, and exit from, the United States. Read more... |
Top Ten Immigration Scams
| There are anywhere from 11-20 million illegal immigrants living in the U.S. When I worked as a consular officer at American embassies overseas I saw so many examples of visa and immigration fraud that it’s hard for me to understand why so many haven’t figured out how to game the system and legalize their status. This is a light-hearted look at some of the most popular scams, in reverse order of their relative popularity. Please do not email me to ask for details on how you can carry out these schemes. Read more... |
Wanted by USCIS: Business Experts to Infiltrate USCIS
| In World War II they were called "dollar-a-year men." They were business executives and they were dispatched to Washington by their firms to help the government organize the procurement side of the defense effort. They stayed on the corporate payrolls, while getting $1 a year from the government. Many of them worked hard in the war mobilization, and many of them, it was reported at the time, steered federal contracts to their firms. Many probably did both. USCIS seems to be using that old technique to help that agency become even more business-friendly. Read more... |
Panel Transcript: A Drought of Summer Jobs
| Related Publications: Backgrounder, Video Moderator: Jerry Kammer, Senior Research Fellow, Center for Immigration Studies Speakers: Steven Camarota, Director of Research, Center for Immigration Studies B. Lindsay Lowell, Director of Policy Studies, Intstitute for the Study of International Migration, Georgetown University Daryl Scott, Professor, Howard University Read more... |
Congress Acting Dumb
| The Washington Post documents Rep. Tim Griffin's (R-Ark) difficultly in deciding on a name for a new bill to give green cards to aliens simply because they get graduate degrees in the U.S. He apparently started with the NERDS Act (New Employees for Research & Development and STEM) but settled on BRAIN Act (Bringing and Retaining Accomplished Innovators for the Nation). Read more... |
Shortcuts to Immigration: The 'Temporary' Visa Program Is Broken
| Download this Backgrounder as a pdf The number of temporary admissions has more than tripled since 1985, from 9.5 million to 32.8 million, and the number of non-immigrant visa (NIV) issuances has risen by 30 percent over the same period, even with the adoption of the Visa Waiver Program. Read more... |
Labor Market Effects of Immigration Enforcement at Meatpacking Plants in Seven States
| Thank you, ranking member Smith and Republican members, for the invitation to testify about two reports on how local labor markets were affected by immigration enforcement at seven meat packing plants in seven states. Read more... |
Amnesty Under Hagel-Martinez
| Download this Backgrounder as a pdf Read the panel discussion transcript Read more... |