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USCIS Warns of EB-5 Immigrant Investor Fraud
| U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has, belatedly, taken a useful step regarding the immigrant investor (EB-5) program. Together with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the agency this week issued a warning against middle-man fraud in the program. Read more... |
Immigration Policy: A Proposal
| Return to the Table of Contents George J. Borjas is the Pforzheimer Professor of Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Read more... |
The President's Immigration Villains: Part 2
| The president has a long and substantial rhetorical history of harshly singling out and criticizing individuals and groups that disagree with his policy preferences. And no group has been on the receiving end of more of his ire than Republicans. On the GOP in general, he has said "Their philosophy is simple: We are better off when everybody is left to fend for themselves and play by their own rules." Read more... |
Who's on First at Homeland Security?
| The DHS press release headline says it all: Statement by Deputy Press Secretary Marsha Catron on Acting Secretary Beers' Upcoming Trip to New York and Italy Not only is there an acting secretary, there's a deputy press secretary presumably acting for the real press secretary. But that's not all. Rand Beers, whose continuing title is that of one of the under secretaries of DHS, where he is the ranking anti-terrorism person, is the acting deputy secretary, and, it is because of that role that he — now that Janet Napolitano has left town — is also the acting secretary. Read more... |
Wisdom from the Pews
| My posting this morning on the fading prospects for amnesty mentioned the Roman Catholic hierarchy's lobbying push, which included instructions that Sunday's sermons were to have focused on immigration. No one I've heard from, at parishes around the country, heard a sermon on immigration or even saw a letter from their bishop on it in their church bulletins. Read more... |
A Strategic U.S. Immigration Policy for the New Economy
| Return to the Table of Contents Stephen Moore, former director of fiscal policy studies at the Cato Institute, now serves as president of the Club for Growth. Read more... |
Legal Immigration Reform
| Return to the Table of Contents T. Alexander Aleinikoff is a Professor at the Georgetown University Law Center and a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Read more... |
My Ideal Immigration Policy
| Return to the Table of Contents Father Brian Jordan works with New York-based Voices for Immigrant Justice. Read more... |
Give Higher Priority to Refugees
| Return to the Table of Contents John Isbister is a professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Read more... |
Implementation of an Entry-Exit System
| Tracking the arrival and departure of foreign visitors to the United States is an essential part of immigration control, with collateral effects on law enforcement and national security. The need for arrival controls is obvious, but recording departures is also important; without it, there is no way to know whether travelers have left when they were supposed to. Creating a feasible and cost-effective solution for foreign visitors has emerged as the linchpin in fully implementing the eight statutes first passed beginning 16 years ago. Read more... |
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Setting Priorities in Immigration Policy
| Return to the Table of Contents Susan F. Martin is Director, Institute for the Study of International Migration, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. Read more... |
A Legal Immigration Policy for the 21st Century
| Return to the Table of Contents Vernon M. Briggs, Jr., is a labor economist on the faculty of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell and author of Immigration and American Unionism (Cornell University Press, 2001). Read more... |
Legal Immigration in the 21st Century
| Return to the Table of Contents Kevin R. Johnson is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law and Chicana/o Studies; Director Chicana/o Studies Program at the University of California, Davis. Read more... |
Immigration Policy as Random Rationing
| Return to the Table of Contents Alan Reynolds, a senior fellow with the Hudson Institute, contributed to the Institute’s influential study Workforce 2020. Read more... |
It's Time to Look at Who We Are Admitting, Not Just How Many
| Return to the Table of Contents Richard D. Lamm is the former Democratic Governor of Colorado and a professor at the University of Denver. Read more... |
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