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The 1965 Immigration Reforms and The New York Times: Context, Coverage, and Long-Term Consequences
| Download the pdf version Accusations of liberal bias at The New York Times date back decades, and given the tide of PC coursing so strongly through its pages on a daily basis now, it’s tempting to think that bias has always been part of its institutional DNA. Read more... |
Shaping Georgia: The Effects of Immigration, 1970-2020
| Introduction Georgia is now the eleventh largest state in the nation, according to the Census Bureau. Next to Florida, Georgia is the fastest growing state in the South. Over the past 25 years, the state's growth has been nearly double the overall rate of increase for the nation. But could that population growth be too much of a good thing? This paper addresses that question, and calls on Georgians to consider where the state is headed. Read more... |
Immigration Enforcement Disrupts Criminal Gangs in Virginia
| Immigration law enforcement has been a key ingredient in the success of criminal gang suppression efforts in Virginia, says a new report by the Center for Immigration Studies. As state lawmakers consider steps to address the illegal immigration problem this session, they should give high priority to institutionalizing partnerships between state and local law enforcement agencies (LEAs) and federal immigration authorities (ICE), as well as to immigration’s fiscal costs. Read more... |
The Hinder the Administration’s Legalization Temptation (HALT) Act (H.R. 2497)
| The Hinder the Administration’s Legalization Temptation (HALT) Act (H.R. 2497) U.S. House Judiciary Committee Sub-committee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement 2141 Rayburn House Office Building Tuesday, July 26, 2011 1:30 p.m. Statement of Jessica M. Vaughan Director of Policy Studies Center for Immigration Studies Read more... |
Canada’s Asylum System: A Threat to American Security?
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It’s Not All about Nativism: Historian John Higham’s Widening Views on Modern Efforts to Limit Immigration
| Download a pdf of this Backgrounder Jerry Kammer, a senior research fellow at CIS, won many awards in his 30 years as a journalist. In 2006 he received a Pulitzer Prize and the George Polk Award for his work in helping uncover the bribery scandal whose central figure was Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham. His work in Mexico for the Arizona Republic was honored with the 1989 Robert F. Kennedy Award for humanitarian journalism. Introduction Read more... |
What Is Deferred Action?
| The following explanation of Deferred Action, the tool that will be used by President Obama for the DREAMer amnesty, is from testimony I provided last summer to the U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement: Read more... |
4.6 Million Waiting for Green Cards Displaced by Dreamers
| 4.6 million individuals world-wide who have been approved to be sponsored for green cards by U.S. citizens, current green card holders, and U.S. employers through the established legal immigration process will now have to step aside for a while in order for USCIS to process the deferred action applications of people hoping to qualify under the Obama administration's Dream Scheme. Read more... |
The Elephant in the Room: Panel on Immigration’s Impact on Health Care Reform
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America’s Collection of Quasi-Amnesties
| Download a pdf of this Memorandum Updated July 27, 2011 David North is a CIS fellow who has studied the interaction of immigration and income transfer programs for more than 30 years. Read more... |
Birth Rates Among Immigrants in America: Comparing Fertility in the U.S. and Home Countries
| Download this Backgrounder as a pdf Analysis of data collected by Census Bureau in 2002 shows that women from the top-10 immigrant- sending countries living in the United States collectively tend to have higher fertility than women in their home countries. As a group, immigrants from these countries have 23 percent more children than women in their home countries, adding to world population growth. Among the findings: Read more... |
The Open Door: How Militant Islamic Terrorists Entered and Remained in the United States, 1993-2001
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Immigrants in the United States — 2000
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Subsidizing Sanctuaries: The State Criminal Alien Assistance Program
| Download a pdf of this Memorandum Jessica M. Vaughan is Director of Policy Studies and Russ Doubleday is a research assistant at the Center for Immigration Studies. Read more... |
Legal Services Corporation Programs Aid Illegal Immigrants
| pp. 15 in Immigration Review no. 29, Summer 1997 Read more... |
Arizona Reporter Wins Immigration Journalism Award
| WASHINGTON (June 8, 2011) – Leo W. Banks is the recipient of the 2011 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... |
From Bad to Worse: Unemployment and Underemployment Among Less-Educated U.S.-Born Workers, 2007 to 2010
| Download a pdf of this Memorandum Steven A. Camarota is the Director of Research at the Center for Immigration Studies. Read more... |
The Revolving Door
| Download a pdf of this Memorandum Peter A. Schulkin received his PhD in economics from Harvard and is former Director of Research for the National Association of Real Estate Investor Trusts and former Senior Vice President of a real estate arm of Wells Fargo & Co. He has taught at several universities, including UCLA. Read more... |
Maps Show 330 Illegal Aliens Crossing Ariz. Border in One Night in March, Including Ultralight Incursion
| During the night of March 23, 2012, illegal activity was significant along 12-mile stretch of border in the Tohono O'odham Indian Reservation in Arizona and extending into the United States northwest about 80 miles to the Sonoran Desert National Monument's Vekol Valley on I-8 and about another 20 miles north of the interstate. None of this area is privately owned; it is all owned and operated by the federal government with the exception of the Tohono O'odham Nation's border property. Read more... |
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Census: Population Up 27 Million in Just 10 Years
| Contact: Steven A. Camarota, sac@cis.org, (202)466-8185 Read more... |
No ‘Progress by Pesach’: The Jewish Establishment’s Usurpation of American-Jewish Opinion on Immigration
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Immigration-Related Statistics, 1994
| Introduction Immigration-related data for the past year reflect a continuing increase in the number of new immigrants. Those persons entering legally in fiscal year 1993 for permanent residence increased by about 89,000 — or ten percent — compared to the previous year. Not included in this calculation is the continuing, and perhaps growing, large influx of illegal immigrants. Altogether, the total of new residents in FY-93 is over one-and-a-quarter million. Read more... |
Panel Transcript: Welfare Use by Immigrant Households with Children
| Related Publications: Video, Backgrounder Moderator: Mark Krikorian Executive Director, Center for Immigration Studies Speakers: Steven A. Camarota Director of Research, Center for Immigration Studies Mickey Kaus Blogger and Author, KausFiles.com, the Daily Caller Iain Murray Vice President for Strategy, Competitive Enterprise Institute Read more... |
Just How Does an Anchor Baby Anchor the Illegal Alien Parent?
| A reader asked: "Just what is the mechanism that allows an anchor baby to keep his or her illegal alien parents in the U.S.?" There are four different mechanisms at work here, as my CIS colleague, Jon Feere, and I see it: Read more... |
Amnesties: Past, Present, Future
| The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) hosted a panel discussion, Amnesties: Past, Present, Future, on Monday, January 14 at 9:30 a.m. ET at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Read more... |
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