Dec 11
For those of us who live and breathe immigration reform, it’s hard to remember that immigration isn’t everyone’s top priority. Not surprisingly, public opinion polls and headlines constantly remind us that health care and the economy consistently top the concerns of the general public. Even among Latino voters, a new study shows that health care …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2009/12/11/public-opinion-polls-and-the-future-of-immigration-reform/
Dec 10
The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) has made the rather un-astounding discovery that unemployment in the recession-plagued U.S. economy is high, especially among less-educated workers. In a new report, entitled A Huge Pool of Potential Workers, CIS dissects the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers on unemployment and underemployment among the native-born, and notes that …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2009/12/10/nativist-group-discovers-unemployment-is-high/
Dec 09
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano testified in an oversight hearing today before the Senate Judiciary Committee. While reinforcing her commitment to securing our borders and enforcing our immigration laws in smart and effective ways, Napolitano also reaffirmed her commitment to immigration reform as a way to strengthen our immigration enforcement policies—a commitment …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2009/12/09/napolitano-looks-for-comprehensive-way-forward/
Dec 08
For years, the U.S. government has tried and failed to curb undocumented immigration through enforcement-only tactics at the border and interior raids. The number of Border Patrol Agents has increased substantially over the past years—as have budgets and technological investment at the border—yet none of these increases have resulted in a significant decline in the …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2009/12/08/transforming-the-role-of-immigration-enforcement-through-immigration-reform/
Dec 08
Two recent reports draw attention to yet another defect in the government’s problem-ridden detention system: ICE’s practice of regularly transferring immigration detainees from one jail to another, often far from where ICE initially arrested them. Transfers have a devastating effect on a person’s ability to retain counsel and maintain an attorney-client relationship; present a defense …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2009/12/08/ice-transferring-detainees-impedes-their-access-to-counsel-and-limits-their-right-to-present-a-defense-to-deportation/
Dec 07
As a front-page story in today’s Washington Post reminds us: “Not since the last great wave of immigration to the United States around 1900 has the country’s economic future been so closely entwined with the generational progress of an immigrant group.” The story highlights the degree to which the children of immigrants from Latin America …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2009/12/07/studies-show-latinos-climb-socio-economic-ladder-of-success/
Dec 04
The anti-immigrant Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) claims in a new report that “Maryland’s illegal immigrant population costs the state’s taxpayers more than $1.4 billion per year for education, medical care and incarceration.” However, the statistical contortions in which FAIR engages to produce this number render it virtually meaningless. FAIR dramatically exaggerates the fiscal …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2009/12/04/fair-blames-immigrants-and-children-for-maryland%e2%80%99s-budget-deficit/
Dec 04
This week, the Houston Chronicle reported on several Houston area charities that distribute Christmas gifts to needy children—among them, the Salvation Army, Outreach Program Inc., and West Houston Assistance Ministries. Giving to the needy, especially during an economic recession, is truly an admirable mission—except this year the card attached reads “Immigration status, please.” After all, …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2009/12/04/how-some-houston-charities-stole-christmas%e2%80%a6almost/
Dec 03
Writing in Politico on December 3, long-time anti-immigrant activist Rep. Lamar Smith (R-21st/Texas) claims that President Obama, who attended a forum on jobs and economic growth today, could magically create 8 million job openings for unemployed native-born workers if he would just deport the 8 million unauthorized immigrants now working in the United States. But …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2009/12/03/rep-lamar-smith%e2%80%99s-fairytale-economics/
Dec 02
Today the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) held an event aimed at dispelling some of the most common myths about illegal immigrants and the U.S. economy and making the case that enforcement-only policies are not cost effective. MPI also released The Economics and Policy of Illegal Immigration in the United States, written by Gordon Hanson, a …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2009/12/02/new-report-shines-light-on-the-economics-of-illegal-immigration/
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