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Doctors and Nurses: A Demographic Profile
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Border Watchlisting a Decade after 9/11
| Download a copy of this Backgrounder Janice Kephart is the Director of National Security Policy at the Center for Immigration Studies. Summary Read more... |
Beam Me Up Scotty, Our Work Here Is Done
| Our Division of Smoke-and-Mirrors has just sent us a late-breaking article about a new U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) proposal to post an unmanned border crossing kiosk in the Big Bend National Park. The park is home to some of the most rugged terrain on our shared border with Mexico and is a notorious drug- and alien-smuggling venue. Read more... |
Immigration and Usurpation: Elites, Power, and the People’s Will
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Which Way, New York?
| Download a pdf of this Memorandum W.D. Reasoner (a pseudonym) is a retired government employee with many years of experience in immigration administration, law enforcement, and national security matters. Read more... |
Obama Administration Promises to Ignore SSN Fraud, Protect Law-Breaking Businesses
| U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the agency tasked with overseeing President Obama's controversial Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program recently updated its "Frequently Asked Questions" webpage to assure applicants that the White House is not concerned with Social Security fraud or illegal hiring practices. Or, as the administration told the New York Times, the White House is "not interested in using this as a way to identify one-off cases where some individual may have violated some federal law in an employment relationship." Read more... |
There Is Nothing More Permanent Than Temporary Foreign Workers
| Guest worker programs tend to increase legal and illegal immigration for two major reasons: distortion and dependence. Distortion refers to the fact that economies and labor markets are flexible: They adjust to the presence or absence of foreign workers. If foreign workers are readily available, employers can plant apple and orange trees in remote areas and assume that migrant workers will be available when needed for harvesting. Dependence refers to the fact that individuals, families, and communities abroad need earnings from foreign jobs to sustain themselves, so that a policy decision to stop guest worker recruitment can increase legal and illegal immigration. Read more... |
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Need Help Cheating on That DACA Application? Check the Web
| I suppose I should not have been surprised, but it still was a bit of a jolt when I discovered at least two Internet sites where people were asking how to cheat on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) applications, and getting advice on how to do so. What, asks one (presumably illegal) alien, "should I put for annual income?" Another writer, probably not an alien, asks a more sophisticated version of the same question: Read more... |
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DREAM On
| National Review Online, December 1, 2010 The amnesty-for-illegals crowd has found some sympathetic poster children. Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi have pledged a vote as early as this week on the DREAM Act (Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors), a bill that would legalize illegal aliens who arrived here before the age of 16 and who comply with certain educational or military-service requirements. Read more... |
White House Embraces Administrative Amnesty After Failing to Get Congress on Board
| GWEN IFILL: Cecilia Munoz, of National Council of La Raza, you heard President Fox speak today in Milwaukee. Why is the idea of legalizing illegal immigrants who are already living here making their status legal, why is that a good idea? Read more... |
How the Terrorists Get In
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Immigration, Population, and the Environment: Experts Debate Impact of Current Policies
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Estimating the Size of the H-1B Population in the U.S.
| Download a pdf of this Memorandum David North is a CIS Fellow. Read more... |
Transcript: 2011 Katz Award Ceremony
| Related Publications: Booklet, Video Welcome: Mark Krikorian, Executive Director, Center for Immigration Studies Speakers: Nicolas Stein, Producer, “Border Wars” National Geographic Television Leo W. Banks, Journalist and 2011 Katz Award Winner Transcript by Federal News Service Washington, D.C. Read more... |
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Immigration and Free Trade With Mexico:
| Summary: Free trade is likely to increase immigration from Mexico to the United States before ultimately slowing it. Read more... |
New Waiver Shields Sponsored Illegal Aliens From Penalties
| In the latest installment of the Obama administration's "amnesty by executive decree" scheme, DHS has announced the creation of a new waiver that will enable an unknown number of illegal aliens who have married U.S. citizens or who have moved here illegally to join naturalized family members to avoid penalties enacted by Congress in the mid-1990s. Read more... |
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Educating an Underclass
| Download a pdf of this Memorandum Review of Learning a New Land: Immigrant Students in American Society, by Carola Suarez-Orozco, Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco, and Irina Todorova, Harvard University Press, September 2010 John Wahala is the Assistant Director of the Center for Immigration Studies. Read more... |
Rubio, McCain, Reid Talk Strategy on Reform Bill
| Some excerpts from Sunday morning's "Al Punto" program on Univision, where Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), John McCain (R-Ariz.), and Harry Reid (D-Nev.) responded to questions from host Maria Elena Salinas: Salinas to Rubio: You said this week that you would be inclined to vote against the legislation that you yourself helped to write unless there were some amendments that would strengthen even more the security of the border. Would you be willing to throw everything overboard? Read more... |
ICE's Mission Melt: Agents Vote 'No Confidence' in Leadership
| In an unprecedented move within the Department of Homeland Security, the detention and removal officers and agents responsible for and sworn to enforcing our nation's immigration laws issued an exhaustive, scathing letter simply titled "VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE IN ICE DIRECTOR JOHN MORTON AND ODPP ASSISTANT DIRECTOR PHYLLIS COVEN" on June 11, 2010. Read more... |
Mexico's Forgotten Southern Border: Does Mexico practice at home what it preaches abroad?
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Hidden Cameras on the Arizona Border 3: A Day in the Life of a Drug Smuggler
| Related Publications: Panel Video, Panel Transcript Also view our most recent video, "A Day in the Life of an Arizona Rancher: Border Fences, Illegal Aliens, and One Man’s Watchtower" Read more... |
No Child Left Behind: New Rules for Unaccompanied Minor Illegal Aliens
| Download this Backgrounder as a pdf When the old Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) was reorganized as part of the new Department of Homeland Security (DHS), it lost one of its immigration enforcement functions. The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), part of the Department of Health and Human Services, is now in charge of custody, identification, and release policy for “unaccompanied minors” caught trying to cross the border or caught in the interior. Read more... |
Romney and Huntsman on Illegal Aliens
| Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman have many things in common. They both have Utah roots, are members of the Mormon Church, have been governors, come from a business background, and are potential Republican presidential candidates. But when it comes to illegal immigration they are miles apart. Romney has vetoed and helped defeat bills that would have given special benefits to illegal aliens whereas Huntsman has signed legislation that provides and protects special benefits for illegal aliens. Read more... |
Worrying About the Wrong Citizens
| Opponents of Secure Communities have opened up a new front in their campaign to have the program ended. The new rallying cry against SC is that it is leading to the wrongful arrest of some unknown but deeply disturbing number of U.S. citizens. It all started with the release of a deeply flawed study from a group of anti-SC activists, which I've written about with my colleague W.D. Reasoner. Read more... |
Panel Video: Welfare Use by Immigrant Households with Children
| Related Publications: Paper, Transcript Introduction by Mark Krikorian Steven A. Camarota's Statement Read more... |