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An Unhappy Hershey Experience
| The recent guestworker protests at the Hershey chocolate plant in Palmyra, Penn. provide welcome exposure of the State Department’s cultural exchange visa charade. Billed as a form of public diplomacy to help foreigners better understand America, in fact most of these are cheap guestworker programs, wrapped up in the pretense of a cultural exchange. Read more... |
A Bleak Picture
| As part the Gof8 efforts, labor and business leaders are negotiating a new program to bring in more immigrants to fill “lesser-skilled” jobs. However, employment data does not support the idea that there is a shortage of low-skilled labor. In fact, unemployment and non-work are more pronounced for less-educated U.S. citizens in the states represented by the Gof8 than in the nation as a whole. Read more... |
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Arizona’s SB 1070 and the Hypocrisy of Mexico’s Governors and State Legislators
| Download a pdf of this Memorandum Related Content: Arizona Law SB 1070 Topic Page Read more... |
What Illegal Immigration Has Got to Do with Driver Licenses: Maryland’s Lament (Updated 1/23/09)
| View Related Blogs and Videos In 1993, Tina Turner lamented about love in What’s Love Got to Do with It? Fifteen years later, in 2008, Maryland is publicly lamenting about the effect of permitting illegal immigrants to get driver licenses. A bit tongue in cheek—please—Maryland’s lyric might go something like this: Oh what’s illegal immigration got to do, got to do with driver licenses? Read more... |
Obamacare Loopholes May Benefit Illegals at Taxpayer Expense
| The Los Angeles Times recently reported on program known as ROC-MD in Southern California that provides a form of health coverage designed for illegal aliens. The program was started by the Restaurant Opportunities Center of L.A. and St. John's Well Child and Family Center. Uninsured illegals are charged $25 a month and can seek medical services at one of the St. John's clinics. This program targets illegal aliens because they ostensibly don't qualify for coverage through Obamacare. However, the law already had some loopholes through which illegal aliens could tap taxpayer-funded health care. Read more... |
Are the DREAMers a Special Case?
| Now that the GOP leadership has signaled its eagerness to again support the Democrat drive for amnesty and open borders, a fight has broken out on the other side. This is a revival of the public spitting match between the “comprehensive” amnesty crowd in D.C., who want amnesty for all illegal aliens or nothing, and the DREAMers, illegal aliens who came here as children, who are willing to cut a separate deal for themselves. Read more... |
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Immigration order will hurt unemployed Americans
| William and Mary Professor George Grayson's op-ed from the Richmond Times-Dispatch. He discusses President Obama's DREAM Act amnesty. Read more... |
Panel Transcript: "Hidden Cameras 3" Release and Women in Homeland Security
| Related Publications: Hidden Cameras 3 Video, Panel Video Moderators: Mark Krikorian, Executive Director, Center for Immigration Studies Kristina Tanasichuk, President and Founder, Women in Homeland Security Speakers: Janice Kephart, National Security Director, Center for Immigration Studies Julie Myers Wood, President,Immigration and Customs Enforcement, LLC Read more... |
The Grim World of Some J-1 Teachers
| Download a copy 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. An examination of six U.S. Tax Court decisions offers a revealing look at the inner workings and results of the program to import teachers from abroad on J-1 “cultural exchange” visas. Read more... |
The Top Ten Symptoms of Immigration
| This Backgrounder is adapted from Dr. Borjas’ latest book, Heaven’s Door: Immigration Policy and the American Economy, which presents a comprehensive, accessible, and up-to-date account of the economic impact of recent immigration on America. Dr. Read more... |
Checks and Balances: Potential Areas for Congressional Oversight of Immigration Administration in the 112th Congress
| 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. Read more... |
Immigration Reform and Perishable Crop Agriculture: Compliance or Circumvention?
| http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0819186619/centerforimmigra/002-1... Read more... |
Noncitizen Voting and American Democracy
| Order a copy of Noncitizen Voting and American Democracy at Amazon.com. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2009 Description Read more... |
Upcoming Panel: Summer Work Travel (SWT) Program
| Please RSVP to: Bryan Griffith, (202) 466-8185, press@cis.org WASHINGTON (March 5, 2012) – Late last year, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ordered an “extensive and thorough review” of the State Department’s troubled Summer Work Travel (SWT) program, a “cultural exchange” initiative which every year brings more than 100,000 college students from around the world to fill low-wage seasonal jobs in the United States. Clinton's move followed last summer's protests by students working at a Hershey Co. warehouse in Pennsylvania that garnered worldwide attention. Read more... |
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Physician, Heal Thyself: Special Pleaders Demand Coverage of Illegal Aliens, While Mexico’s Health Care System Is a Wreck
| The demand that illegal immigrants be eligible for taxpayer-funded benefits under the health care reform measures now before Congress offers an opportunity to examine the deep flaws in Mexico’s own health care system. American taxpayers already provide more than $1,100 in health care every year for each of the nearly eight million Mexican immigrants (legal and illegal) in the United States who are uninsured or on Medicaid. This is more than twice the per capita health expenditure of Mexico’s own health sector, which is corrupt, unwieldy, and grossly underfunded. Mexico’s neglect of its own people’s health care increases the demands of its expatriates on America’s emergency rooms, clinics, hospitals, doctors, and other providers. Read more... |
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Four New Threads Appear in Foreign Worker Program Tapestry
| Four new threads in the complex picture of America's foreign worker programs have appeared in recent days, two of them at a session July 18 at the Brookings Institution, and two elsewhere in Washington. Read more... |
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Postscript 9/11: Media Coverage of Terrorism and Immigration
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H.R. 3039, The Welcoming Business Travelers and Tourists to America Act of 2011
| Hearing Before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement "H.R. 3039, The Welcoming Business Travelers and Tourists to America Act of 2011", May 17, 2012 Testimony of Janice L. Kephart, Former Counsel, 9/11 Commission and National Security Policy Director, Center for Immigration Studies Introduction Read more... |
What Should Be Done with Those Granted DACA Amnesty?
| While the preferred end-story for the administration's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) amnesty program should be its termination and an end of deferred action status for those granted it at the close of their two years, this probably will not happen. Perhaps we should think about alternative end games. We know what the administration wants: It would grant full green card status to all the DACA beneficiaries and it would continue all the current admissions policies. Read more... |
Reporter Wins Immigration Journalism Award
| Sarah Ryley, a writer at The Daily, is the recipient of the 2012 Eugene Katz Award for Excellence in the Coverage of Immigration. The award, presented annually by the Center for Immigration Studies, is intended to highlight good reporting in a field where so much of the coverage is formulaic and mawkish. Read more... |
Immigration and Hispanic Middle Class
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The Tale of Two Immigration-Related Freedom of Information Act Requests
| Last year the Center for Immigration Studies filed formal requests for information under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) with two different federal agencies, and we got answers of vastly differing quality. Both requests related to operations of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Read more... |
The Green Card Top 20 for 2011
| The Department of Homeland Security has just released statistics on the 1,062,040 legal residents admitted to the United States during 2011. Once again, Mexico is by far the leading recipient of green cards, with 143,446. The list below shows the other countries in the top 20, which together received 63.2 percent of the green card total. Read more... |
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Zero Net International Migration: What Does It Really Mean?
| The idea of "zero net migration" is gaining increasing currency. It has been assumed that if there is balance between the number of immigrants and emigrants, migration will have no impact on a country's population size. However, this article demonstrates that zero net migration is not necessarily the same as zero migration, and can result in a higher population than would have occurred without any migration at all. Introduction Read more... |
The Fiscal Impact of Immigration
| I have worked on the issue of immigration’s fiscal impact for a long time, having presented my first academic paper on the subject at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association almost two decades ago. I can thus say with confidence that the Heritage Foundation’s recent report on the fiscal cost of illegal immigrants is the most detailed and exhaustive ever done on this topic. Read more... |
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