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Middle Eastern Threats Coming from South of the Border
| Fresh attention to Islamist terrorism shows why America really should be diligent about controlling immigration. A report on Univision TV network used investigative journalism techniques to gather the of Iran's pursuit of entrée to the United States via Latin America and plans to carry out attacks. Read more... |
New INS Report
| WASHINGTON (Oct. 12, 2000) - The report on America's illegal immigration crisis by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), released today on Capitol Hill, highlights the profound unintended consequences of illegal-alien amnesties, just as Congress is considering another such amnesty. The report also makes clear, contrary to the conventional wisdom, that legal and illegal immigration are so intimately connected as to be two sides of the same coin. (Download the report at http://wwwa.house.gov/lamarsmith/INSreport.pdf.) Read more... |
When Texas Welcomes Illegal Aliens, It Becomes More than a 'State Issue'
| During the last two GOP presidential debates, Texas Gov. Rick Perry has defended his support for in-state tuition breaks for illegal aliens by calling it a state issue. Certainly, many issues are best handled by states. But when a state embraces illegal immigration, the impact is not limited to the state itself. By opposing a border fence, opposing E-Verify, embracing sanctuary cities and tuition breaks, Perry and the Texas legislature have arguably turned the Lone Star State into America's illegal alien welcoming mat. Read more... |
The Hispanic Vote in the Upcoming 2010 Elections
| Download a pdf of this Memorandum Steven A. Camarota is the Director of Research and Ashley M. Webster is a demographer at the Center for Immigration Studies. Read more... |
Deception and Disorder in Immigration Court
| Contact: Bryan Griffith, (202) 466-8185, press@cis.org WASHINGTON (June 1, 2011) – The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing two weeks ago on the immigration courts, the Justice Department's appeals system for aliens challenging deportation. To contribute to this reassessment of an important component of America's immigration infrastructure, a new report from the Center for Immigration Studies examines the serious problems in our immigration courts and offer solutions to address them. Read more... |
The Road To IRCA, June 1986
| Editor's note: This is the first installment of a 25-year anniversary series on the lead up to passage of the Immigration Reform and Control Act, which was signed into law in late 1986. In November of 1986, President Ronald Reagan signed into law the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), which offered amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants and established sanctions for employers who hired those not authorized to work in the country. Read more... |
Guestworker Programs: A Threat to American Agriculture
| Download this Backgrounder as a pdf Is this the best way we can grow our big orchards? Is this the best way we can grow our good fruit? — "Deportee," by Woody Guthrie Read more... |
Despite Media Mythmaking, the DREAM Act is for Adults
| The open-border media continues to mislead the American public about the DREAM Act, which Sen. Harry Reid has said he will offer as an amendment to the defense spending bill as soon as next week. You wouldn't know it from reading a newspaper or scrolling through your favorite online news site, but the proposed amnesty is an amnesty for children and adults – illegal aliens up to 35 years of age (see Senate Bill S.729). This fact does not seem to have made it into the newsrooms across the nation: Read more... |
International Students and Visiting Scholars
| Before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights and Oversight and the House Committee on Education and Labor Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning and Competitiveness June 29, 2007 Statement of Jessica M. Vaughan Senior Policy Analyst, Center for Immigration Studies Read more... |
H-1Bs: Still Not the Best and the Brightest
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New Report Offers Deceptive Assessment of Immigration Enforcement
| A new report being promoted by the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), a research institute dedicated to promoting migration, paints a deliberately misleading picture of the state of immigration law enforcement. The report, titled Immigration Enforcement in the United States: The Rise of a Formidable Machinery, is presented as an objective assessment of immigration programs, and has been widely covered in the news media -- but is riddled with false statements, cherry-picked statistics and inappropriate comparisons. Read more... |
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USCIS Extends Haitian TPS Application Period with No Additional Precautions
| USCIS announced Monday that they will give Haitian nationals another six months to apply for Temporary Protected Status (TPS), and the right to work that goes with it. No additional steps will be taken to cope with fraud in the second stage of the process. The deadline for applications had been this July 20; it will now be January 18, 2011. In both the earlier and the later period for applying, one must claim to have been in the U.S. on the date of the Haitian earthquake, January 12, 2010, in either legal or illegal status. Read more... |
Officers Need Backup: The Role of State and Local Police In Immigration Law Enforcement
| Download this Backgrounder as a pdf In the midst of a war against Islamist terrorists, the United States remains woefully — and frighteningly — at risk. Even with the enactment of new laws such as the USA Patriot Act and the Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act and the reorganization of major parts of the federal government into a cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security, the American homeland is not secure. Read more... |
George Kennan, 2 NYT Alums, and Immigration
| On November 28, this blog took note of what I called an "Upper West Side of Manhattan" sensibility about immigration. People with this mindset exhibit views that are both expansive and generous about the value of immigrants, regardless of their numbers and human capital, and narrow and intolerant toward those who want to stop illegal immigration and limit legal immigration. On Sunday, I had a peculiar encounter with the mindset as I took a long walk while listening to a podcast of Thursday's Diane Rehm show, which originates in Washington D.C.'s public radio station, WAMU. Read more... |
Socio-Demographic Variables for U.S.-born Hispanics that May Matter Politically
| There has been a good deal of debate in the media about what Republicans can do to gain a larger share of Hispanic voters, who accounted for 9-10 percent of the electorate in the last presidential election. About three-fourths of Hispanic voters are U.S.-born. If Republicans are going to increase their share of the Hispanic vote, this is the population that they will have to reach. Read more... |
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“A Cavalier Attitude”: The State Department’s Legacy of SWT Failure
| Related Publications: Panel Transcript, Panel Video Download a pdf of "Cheap Labor as Cultural Exchange" View the Table of Contents Jerry Kammer is a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies. Read more... |
Brushbacks, Proxies, and Connecting the Dots
| There seems to be a disconnect in the administration’s thinking — an inability to fundamentally “connect the dots” in the way intended by the 9/11 Commission and to acknowledge, or even understand, that U.S. immigration policies have the capability to substantially strengthen, or to significantly undermine, our national security. Read more... |
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So, Is Mexican Immigration Over?
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Immigrants on the Move: How Internal Migration Increases the Concentration of the Foreign-born
| The combination of immigration from abroad and the resettlement of immigrants from one state to another has increased the concentration of the foreign-born in the top four states of settlement — California, New York, Florida, and Texas. High educational attainment and English fluency increased the probability that an immigrant would move between states, while those same characteristics decreased the probability that a foreign-born migrant would choose California, New York or Florida as his destination. Read more... |
Wholesome-Sounding Employer Caught Discriminating Against U.S. Citizens
| What could sound more wholesome this time of the year? How about a Christmas tree farm in rural Pennsylvania? One that also grows corn and pumpkins and squash? An outfit that is close to the small farming town of Weatherly (population 2,384 in 2010, a decline from the previous census, as so often is the case in rural America)? Think again. An obscure arm of the U.S. Justice Department, one that rarely takes such an action, has just settled a lawsuit against Sernak Farms (of Weatherly) for discriminating against eight U.S. citizen workers, in favor of nonimmigrant H2-A workers. Read more... |
'Low-priority' Illegals? Obama Amnesty and Enforcement Priorities Endanger Public Safety
| The Obama administration's new administrative amnesty apparently directs ICE to wait until an illegal alien commits a serious crime or two before considering deportation. Similarly, according to the administration's latest 287(g) enforcement scheme, Americans must fall victim to "murder, manslaughter, rape, robbery, and/or kidnapping" before the alien perpetrator becomes a high priority for deportation. Read more... |
Dropping Out
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The Decline in Summer Youth Employment: New Study Examines Immigration's Impact on U.S.-born Teens
| Contact: Steven Camarota, sac@cis.org, 202-466-8185 Read more... |
Panel Transcript: Deception and Disorder in Immigration Court
| Related Publications: Paper, Video Moderator: Mark Krikorian, Executive Director, Center for Immigration Studies Speakers: Mark Metcalf, Author Grisel Ibarra, Immigration Attorney and Activist Andrew McCarthy, Senior Fellow, National Review Institute Hans von Spakovsky, Senior Legal Fellow, Heritage Foundation Transcript by Read more... |
Panel Video: The Summer Work Travel Program
| Related Publications: Report, Panel Transcript The Center for Immigration Studies held a panel discussion on the report series, "Cheap Labor as Cultural Exchange: The $100 Million Work Travel Industry". The discussion was held on Tuesday, March 13, 2012 at 9 a.m. in the Murrow Room at the National Press Club. Read more... |