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Denying License Plates to Illegals, Too

Download a pdf of this Memorandum David North is a CIS Fellow. While many states in recent years have made it harder for illegal aliens to get driver’s licenses, too few states examine these documents when issuing license plates for cars. A survey of state motor vehicle agencies showed these practices: Only a few states, no more than four, issue driver’s licenses to illegal aliens, or provide inadequate screening systems. Read more...

Young Americans ‘Don’t Know How the System Works’

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...

American Unionism and U.S. Immigration Policy

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Unemployment for Immigrants and the US-Born: Picture Bleak for Less-Educated Black & Hispanic Americans

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Latino Voting in the 2008 Election: Part of a Broader Electoral Movement

The 2008 presidential election provided yet another opportunity to assess stability and change in the basic partisan commitments of voters. For almost 10 years now, leading GOP strategists have suggested that the party is on its way to making lasting inroads with Latino voters. Unfortunately, the 2008 results indicate that the party is no closer to this goal now than it was when it started. Exit polls on Election Night indicated that President-Elect Obama won 67 percent of the Latino vote; performing a bit better among Latino women (68 percent) than among Latino men (64 percent). (Results can be viewed on the CNN Election Center 2008 website at the following address, accessed December 15, 2008: http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/polls/#USP00p1.) The Pew Research Center’s national survey taken the weekend before Election Day showed virtually the same results: 32 percent for McCain and 68 percent for Obama. Read more...

When Tragedy Is the Hallmark of Failed Policy

When Mexico has to arrest its own people for murders of U.S. law enforcement, it is sensible to conclude that current border policies are not only producing failure, but tragedies. Illegal border activity has grown increasingly violent and brazen over the past two years, including the notorious murders of rancher Robert Krentz in nearby Douglas and Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry northwest of Nogales all within a few miles of the Mexican border. It is easy to see how a "do little to nothing" border policy emboldens the bullies and thugs that make up much of the current cast of illegal entrants along the border. Read more...

Are There Really Jobs Americans Won’t Do?

This analysis tests the often-made argument that immigrants do only jobs Americans don't want. If the argument is correct, there should be occupations comprised entirely or almost entirely of immigrants (legal and illegal). But Census Bureau data collected from 2009 to 2011, which allows for detailed analysis of all 472 separate occupations, shows that there were only a handful of majority-immigrant occupations. Thus, there really are no jobs that Americans won't do. Further, we estimated the share of occupations that are comprised of illegal immigrants, and found that there are no occupations in which the majority of workers are illegally in the country. Read more...

The Impact of Immigration on California

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The Debate Over Non-Citizen Voting: A Primer

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Out of Africa: Somali Bantu and the Paradigm Shift in Refugee Resettlement

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The Alleged Costs of Ending Universal Birthright Citizenship

Dowload a pdf of this Memorandum Jon Feere is the Legal Policy Analyst at the Center for Immigration Studies. Read more...

A Day in the Life of an Arizona Rancher: Border Fences, Illegal Aliens, and One Man’s Watchtower

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Immigration from Mexico: Study Examines Costs and Benefits for the United States

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Five Myths about Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants in Senate Bill

President Obama and the Gang of Eight senators are repeating a number of talking points designed to elicit support for amnesty, or as they call it, "'earned legalization," for immigrants who have come to the United States illegally. The so-called "path to citizenship" is part of a bipartisan Senate immigration bill. Read more...

Media Describes Illegal Aliens As “Undocumented Californians”

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Why Is the U.S. National Soccer Team So 'American?'

If soccer is the world's sport, and America is the world's leading beacon for immigrants around the globe, why aren't immigrants making a bigger impact playing soccer for the Stars and Stripes? Consider the paucity of foreign born players on the U.S. Men's National Soccer Team. The team draws from a player pool of fifty eight men, only three (5%) of whom were born outside the U.S. Read more...

Immigration and Obamacare

In January 2013, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Department of Health and Human Services issued a proposed rule implementing health reform's Medicaid, Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and Exchanges provisions. The proposal includes details of the statutory requirements for verifying the immigration or citizenship status of those applying for Medicaid and CHIP. This Backgrounder describes the proposed verification process and standards. Read more...

Charging More for Immigration: Closing Financial Loopholes in the U.S. Migration Process

Download a pdf of this Backgrounder David North is a CIS Fellow. “Why not a cover charge?” — Jon Stewart, February 1, 2010, regarding the nation’s fiscal woes Summary The U.S. Government, fighting two wars and one huge recession, badly needs additional revenues to move toward a balanced budget. Read more...

SWT in Alaska: Fish Sliming as Cultural Exchange

Embracing America: A Look at Which Immigrants Become Citizens

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The Carnegie Corporation and Immigration: How a Noble Vision Lost Its Way

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. Read more...

Outsmarting Smart Growth: Population Growth, Immigration, and the Problem of Sprawl

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Europe's Mujahideen: Where Mass Immigration Meets Global Terrorism

Download this Backgrounder as a pdf Immigration and terrorism are independent social phenomena stemming from dissimilar causes and with radically different objectives. To explore the relationship between the two will raise academic eyebrows and generate the usual accusations. But if we want to connect the dots, we can hardly do less. The two phenomena have grown spectacularly in the past several decades, becoming mass immigration and global terrorism. And they converge in Western Europe. Read more...

A Huge Pool of Potential Workers: Unemployment, Underemployment, and Non-Work Among Native-Born Americans

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Immigration-Related Provisions of Senate and House Health Reform Bills

Health reform legislation in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate will give illegal aliens access to taxpayer-funded health care well beyond emergency medical treatment. (That is already a mandate that can put hospitals and other providers on the hook for much more than addressing an individual’s actual emergency.) Read more...