Guestworkers

Publications:
   High-tech
   Agriculture
   Other (or both)

 


High-Tech

H-1Bs: Still Not the Best and the Brightest
   By Norman Matloff
   Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder, May 2008

Professional Guestworker Visas and Employment Opportunities for U.S. Workers
Legislation, Intergovernmental and Veterans Relations Committee of the Board of Commissioners of Cook County, Chicago, IL, September 18, 2007
Statement by Jessica M. Vaughan, Senior Policy Analyst

Low Salaries for Low Skills: Wages and Skill Levels for H-1B Computer Workers, 2005,
   By John Miano
   Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder, April 2007
   pdf version

The Bottom of the Pay Scale: Wages for H-1B Computer Programmers,
    By John Miano
   Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder, December 2005
   pdf version

A Missed Opportunity: Pro-Industry Report Defends “Temporary” H1-B Visa Usage, Fails to Deal with Fact that It Will Be Permanent
   By Norman Matloff
   Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder, March 2001
   pdf version

Indefinitely Temporary: Senate Boost to High-tech Guest Workers Will Block Green Cards 
   By Paul Donnelly
   Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder, March 2000 
   pdf version

High-Tech Trojan Horse: H1-B Visas and the Computer Industry
   By Norman Matloff, University of California, Davis
   Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder, September 1999 
   pdf version

Agriculture

Farm Labor Shortages: How Real? What Response?
   By Philip Martin
   Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder, October 2007
   Teleconference Transcript
Promise Unfulfilled: Why Didn’t Collective Bargaining Transform California’s Farm Labor Market?
   By Philip L. Martin
   Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder, January 2004
   .pdf version

The Universe of the Illegal Alien
   By Victor Davis Hanson
   Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder, June 2003
   Panel Discussion Transcript

Enchilada Lite: A Post-9/11 Mexican Migration Agreement  
   By Robert S. Leiken
   Center for Immigration Studies Report, March 2002

An Analyst's View: It's a Mistake to Depend on Foreign Farm Labor
   By Mark Krikorian
   The Idaho Statesman, July 22, 2001

Guestworker Programs: A Threat to American Agriculture
   By Mark Krikorian
   Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder, June 2001
   pdf version

There Is Nothing More Permanent Than Temporary Foreign Workers
   By Philip Martin, University of California, Davis
   Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder, April 2001
   pdf version

More Guest Workers? Not What We Should Pick
   By Mark Krikorian
   The Washington Post, February 25, 2001

Alternatives to Immigrant Labor? The Status of Fruit and Vegetable Harvest Mechanization in the United States
   By Yoav Sarig, James F. Thompson, and Galen K. Brown
   Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder, December 2000

Guest Worker Programs for the 21st Century   
   By Philip Martin
   Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder, April 2000 
   pdf version

H.R. 4548
U.S. House Immigration Subcommittee, June 15, 2000
Statement by Mark Krikorian, Executive Director

The Politics of Labor Scarcity: Expediency and the Birth of the Agricultural "Guestworkers" Program
   By Cindy Hahamovitch
   Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder, December 1999 
   pdf version

Alternatives to Immigrant Labor? Raisin Industry Tests New Harvesting Technology
   By Bert Mason, R. Keith Stiegler, and Gregory T. Berg
   Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder, February 1997 

How Much Is That Tomato in the Window?: Retail Produce Prices Without Illegal Farmworkers
   By Wallace Huffman and Alan McCunn
   Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder, February 1996 

"Planting Poverty"
   Review by Monica Heppel of Poverty Amid Prosperity: Immigration and the Changing    

   Face of Rural California by J. Edward Taylor, Philip Martin, and Michael Fix
   pp. 15-16 in Immigration Review no. 32, Spring 1998  

Other (or both)

The H-2B Visa Program and a "Shortage" of American Workers
   Steven A. Camarota's Testimony Before the House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on
   Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law, April 16, 2008

Some Lost Jobs Never Leave Home: Skilled Foreigners Flow In to Fill Them,
   By Jessica Vaughan
   The Washington Post, May 2, 2004

Trade Agreements and Immigration
   By Jessica Vaughan
   In the National Interest, April 13, 2004

Guestworker Programs: Lessons from the Past and Warnings for the Future
   By Vernon M. Briggs, Jr.
   Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder, March 2004

Flawed Assumptions Underlying Guestworker Programs
U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims, March 24, 2004,
Statement by Mark Krikorian, Executive Director

Not Amnesty but Attrition: The Way to go on Immigration
   By Mark Krikorian
   National Review, March 22, 2004

INS, RIP: One Year Later
   Center for Immigration Studies Panel, March 2004

Flawed Assumptions Underlying Guestworker Programs
   By Mark Krikorian
   Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder, February 2004
   .pdf version

Earth to WSJ: Clueless on immigration
   By Mark Krikorian
   National Review Online, January 28, 2004

Amnesty, Again: This country should have learned -- apparently, it has not,
   By Mark Krikorian
   National Review, January 26, 2004

Immigration, Saudi Style: A radical disconnect.
   By Mark Krikorian
   National Review Online, January 13, 2004

Jobs Americans Won't Do: Voodoo Economics from the White House
   By Mark Krikorian
   National Review Online, January 7, 2004

Be Our Guest: Trade Agreements and Visas
   By Jessica Vaughan
   Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder, December 2003
   .pdf version

Shortcuts to Immigration: The 'Temporary' Visa Program Is Broken
   By Jessica Vaughan
   Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder, January 2003

Opening America's Borders: The high cost of cheap labor
   By Steven Camarota
   The Denver Post, September 30, 2001

An Examination of the Premises Underlying a Guestworker Program
U.S. House Immigration Subcommittee, June 19, 2001
Statement by Mark Krikorian, Executive Director

"Captive Workers: A Disturbing Trend in Immigration Policy"   pdf version
   By Mark Krikorian
   pp. 1, 5-8 in Immigration Review no. 33, Fall 1998 

"Trading Visas for Business Deals: Bad Public Policy"
   By Joaquin F. Otero
   pp. 7-10 in Immigration Review no. 30, Fall/Winter 1997-98