Illegal Immigration

How should Californians concerned about immigration vote on Feb. 5? Is tougher enforcement yielding any positive results? What will the immigration debate look like a year from now?
   Mark Krikorian and Tomás Jiménez
   Online Debate, Los Angeles Times, February 4-8, 2008

Immigration Enforcement Disrupts Criminal Gangs in Virginia: State Should Expand Involvement of Local LEAs
   Center for Immigration Studies Announcement, March 31, 2008

Proposal to Repeal Business Licenses of Businesses Repeatedly, Knowingly Hiring Illegal Aliens
   Michael W. Cutler's testimony before the Indiana State Senate, January 23, 2008

Would tighter security curb illegal immigration? Yes.
   By Mark Krikorian
   CQ Researcher, January 23, 2008

No Coyote Needed: U.S. Visas Still an Easy Ticket in Developing Countries
   By David Seminara
   Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder, March 2008

Use Enforcement to Ease Situation
   By Steven A. Camarota
   The Arizona Republic, October 23, 2005

"Secure Licenses Critical to Homeland Security"
Joint Transportation Committee, Massachusetts State House, October 25, 2005. Statement of Jessica M. Vaughan, Senior Policy Analyst, Center for Immigration Studies

"SAVE: A Useful Tool for State Agencies"
The Joint Committee on Housing, Massachusetts State House, September 20, 2005
Statement of Jessica M.Vaughan, Senior Policy Analyst, Center for Immigration Studies

Downsizing Illegal Immigration: A Strategy of Attrition Through Enforcement
   By Mark Krikorian
   Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder, May 2005

Should the United States get Tough on Illegal Workers? Yes
   By Mark Krikorian
   New York Daily News, December 26, 2004

No Child Left Behind: New Rules for Unaccompanied Minor Illegal Aliens
   By Don Barnett
   Center for Immigration Studies Paper, December 2004

 The High Cost of Cheap Labor: Illegal Immigration and the Federal Budget
   By Steven A. Camarota
   Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder, August 2004 

Playing Games with Security: Taking Two Steps Back for Every Step Forward on Immigration
   By Mark Krikorian
   National Review Online, August 18, 2004

Post-Americans: They've just grown beyond their country
   By Mark Krikorian
   National Review Online, June 22, 2004

Crime & the Illegal Alien: The Fallout from Crippled Immigration Enforcement,
   By Heather Mac Donald
   Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder, June 2004

State and Local Authority to Enforce Immigration Law: A Unified Approach for Stopping Terrorists
   By Mr. Kris W. Kobach
   Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder, June 2004

"Pushing the Border Out on Alien Smuggling: New Tools and Intelligence Initiatives"
House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims, May 18, 2004
Statement of Michael W. Cutler, Fellow, Center for Immigration Studies

"What's Wrong With the Visa Lottery"
U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims, April 29, 2004
Statement of Steven Camarota, Director of Research, Center for Immigration Studies

Don't Give Noncitizens the Vote: Recent proposals to relax election requirements would ill serve the national interest
   By Mark Krikorian
   Newsday, April 26, 2004

Safety Through Immigration Control
   By Mark Krikorian
   The Providence Journal, April 24, 2004

Viewpoints: Should borders be open?
   By Mark Krikorian
   BBC News, UK Edition, April 1, 2004

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

“Funding for Immigration in the President’s 2005 Budget; Testimony before House”

U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims, March 11, 2004
Statement of Michael W. Cutler, Fellow, Center for Immigration Studies

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, The National Press Club, March 3, 2004

“America’s New Welcome Mat: A Look at the Goals and Challenges of the US-VISIT Program”
U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform, March 4, 2004
Statement of Jessica M. Vaughan, Senior Policy Analyst, Center for Immigration Studies

“The Proposed Issuance of Maryland State Driver's Licenses to Illegal Aliens”
Maryland House of Delegates, Judiciary Committee, February 18, 2004
Statement of Michael Cutler, Fellow, Center for Immigration Studies

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

Bush Bill Would Aid Mexico's Meddling in U.S.
   By Mark Krikorian
   Newsday, February 18, 2004

“Guestworker Programs for Low-Skilled Workers: Lessons from the Past and Warnings for the Future”
U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security, February 5, 2004
Statement of Vernon M. Briggs, Jr., Board Member, Center for Immigration Studies

“Preventing the Entry of Terrorists into the United States”
U.S. House of Representatives Committee on International Relations,
Sub-committee on International Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Human Rights, February 13, 2004
Statement of Peter K. Nunez, Board of Directors Chairman, Center for Immigration Studies

“Preventing the Entry of Terrorists into the United States”
U.S. House of Representatives Committee on International Relations,
Sub-committee on International Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Human Rights, February 13, 2004
Statement of Jessica M. Vaughan, Senior Policy Analyst, Center for Immigration Studies

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

Enforcement Blues: Do we want an immigration agency that works, or not?
   By Mark Krikorian
   National Review Online, January 26, 2004

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

Bush Plan for Illegals Out of Touch with Reality
    By Mark Krikorian
    Op-ed, January 17, 2004

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

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

Falling Behind on Security: Implementation of the Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act of 2002
   By Rosemary Jenks and Steven A. Camarota
   Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder, December 2003
   .pdf version

Politics by Other Means: The “Why” of Immigration to the United States
   By Fredo Arias-King
   Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder, December 2003
   .pdf version

Arizona Amnesty: Rewarding Illegal Aliens
   By Mark Krikorian
   National Review Online, November 21, 2003

Fewer Immigrants, a Warmer Welcome: Fixing a Broken Immigration Policy
   By Mark Krikorian
   Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder, November 2003
   .pdf version

Remaking the Political Landscape: The Impact of Illegal and Legal Immigration on Congressional Apportionment
   By Dudley L. Poston, Jr., Steven A. Camarota, and Amanda K. Baumle
   Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder, October 2003

Freeloaders
   By Mark Krikorian
   National Review Online, October 3, 2003

Can Immigration Law Be Enforced? A Year after 9/11, Many Still Answer 'No'
   Center for Immigration Studies Panel, September 2003

RICO: A New Tool for Immigration Law Enforcement
   By Micah King
   Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder, July 2003

Bar None: An Evaluation of the 3/10-Year Bar
   By Jessica Vaughan
   Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder, July 2003

The Role of State and Local Law Enforcement in Immigration
   Center for Immigration Studies Panel, June 26, 2003

The Deadly Consequences of Illegal Alien Smuggling
U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims, June 26, 2003
Statement by Peter Nunez, Board of Directors Chairman, Center for Immigration Studies

The Issuance, Acceptance and Reliability Of Consular Identification Cards
House Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims, June 19, 2003
Statement by Marti Dinerstein, Fellow, Center for Immigration Studies

Mexico's Illegal Alien ID Card: Should it be Valid in the United States?
   Center for Immigration Studies Panel, June 12, 2003

North American Borders: Why They Matter
   By Glynn Custred
   Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder, May 2003

Oil for Illegals? Mexico, and the Democrats, have a fit over House vote
   By Mark Krikorian
   National Review Online, May 14, 2003

Officers Need Backup: The Role of State and Local Police in Immigration Law Enforcement
   By James R. Edwards, Jr.
   Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder, April 2003

Securing the Homeland Through Immigration Law Enforcement
U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims, April 10, 2003
Statement by Mark Krikorian, Executive Director, Center for Immigration Studies

NRO Debates: Dealing with illegal immigrants should be a top priority of the war on terror, Part II, Part III
   By Mark Krikorian and Tamar Jacoby
   National Review Online, February 12-14, 2003

800,000 + Illegals Entering Annually in Late '90s: New INS Report Also Finds 80,000 from Middle East
   By Steven A. Camarota
   Center for Immigration Studies Announcement, February 4, 2003

IDs for Illegals: The 'Matricula Consular' Advances Mexico's Immigration Agenda
   By Marti Dinerstein
   Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder, January 2003

Targeting Tancredo: Further proof we're not serious about border control,
   By Mark Krikorian
   National Review Online, September 20, 2002

America's Identity Crisis: Document Fraud is Pervasive and Pernicious
   By Marti Dinerstein
   Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder, April 2002

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

Another 50 Years of Mass Mexican Immigration: Mexican Government Report Projects Continued Flow Regardless of Economics or Birth Rates
   By David Simcox
   Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder, March 2002

Making our de facto national ID cards work
   By David Simcox,
   United Press International, February 26, 2002

Census Bureau: Over 100,000 Illegal Aliens from the Middle East: New Government Report Raises Concerns in Light of Terrorist Threat
   Center for Immigration Studies Announcement, January 22, 2002

Census Bureau: Eight Million Illegal Aliens in 2000: Finding Raises Concern Over Border Control in Light of Terrorist Threat
   Center for Immigration Studies Announcement, October 24, 2001

Amnesty, in English: The Debate Over Amnesty Ought To Be Waged in Plain English
   By Mark Krikorian
   National Review Online, September 4, 2001

Tired and Poor: The Bankrupt Arguments for Mass, Unskilled Immigration,
   By Steven A. Camarota
   National Review, September 3, 2001

Attitudes Toward Amnesty: Zogby Poll Examines Support Among Different Constituencies
   By Steven A. Camarota
   Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder, September 2001
   .pdf version

Defining Deviancy Down in Immigration
   By Mark Krikorian
   National Review Online, May 3, 2001

An Examination of U.S. Immigration Policy and Serious Crime
   By Carl F. Horowitz
   Center for Immigration Studies Report, May 2001

Controlling Illegal Immigration: There Are Ways, But Little Will
   By Mark Krikorian
   Investor's Business Daily, March 21, 2001

New INS Report: 1986 Amnesty Increased Illegal Immigration
   Center for Immigration Studies Announcement, October 12, 2000

Amnesties Beget More Illegal Immigration: Will somebody tell Congress?
   By Mark Krikorian
   National Review Online, October 16, 2000

America's Other Border Patrol: The State Department’s Consular Corps and
Its Role in U.S. Immigration   
   By Nikolai Wenzel
   Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder, August 2000
   News coverage

Inalienable Identification: Key to Halting Illegal Employment
    By David Simcox
   Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder, January 2000

Lured by jobs, illegal immigrants risk death at border crossings
   By Mark Krikorian,
   Santa Barbara News-Press, April 25, 1999

"No Sanctions: Governments Haven't Fulfilled Promises to Punish Rogue Employers"
   By Daniel Jester
   pp. 8-10 in Immigration Review no. 33, Fall 1998

"Missing the Boat"
   Review by Sanjay Mongia
   Forbidden Workers: Illegal Chinese Immigrants and American Labor by Peter Kwong
   pp. 13-15 in Immigration Review No. 31, Spring 1998

A Loophole in Immigration Law
   By Steven A. Camarota and Jessica Vaughan
   The Washington Post, October 21, 1997

Identification Document Fraud
U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims, May 13, 1997
Statement by Rosemary Jenks, Senior Policy Analyst, Center for Immigration Studies

Measuring the Fallout: The Cost of the IRCA Amnesty After 10 Years
   By David Simcox
   Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder, May 1997

"5 Million Illegal Immigrants: An Analysis of New INS Numbers"
   By Steven Camarota
   pp. 1-4 in Immigration Review no. 28, Spring 1997

What Crackdown?
   By Mark Krikorian
   The New York Times, April 4, 1997

The link: legal and illegal immigration
   By Mark Krikorian
   New York Post, February 16, 1997

Illegal Workers Aren't Needed to Make Sure We Keep Eating Our Vegetables
   By Mark Krikorian
   Chicago Tribune, April 9, 1996  

Other Links:

 U.S. Immigration Policy: Restoring Credibility
A 1994 report from the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform 

 The Mexico-U.S. Binational Migration Study