Feb 11
The number of unauthorized immigrants living in the U.S. dropped by roughly 1 million last year, according to a new report released by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) yesterday. As of January 2009, the number of unauthorized immigrants currently residing in the U.S. totaled 10.8 million, down from 11.6 million in January 2008, marking …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/02/11/striking-while-the-iron-is-hot-drop-in-unauthorized-immigrant-population-a-good-time-for-immigration-reform/
Feb 10
Each year, millions of immigrants in the U.S. send billions of dollars in remittances to friends and family members in their home countries. It is easy to mistakenly assume that this represents a huge loss for the U.S. and in this economy, why are we allowing billions of dollars to be sent abroad? Like all …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/02/10/how-remittances-can-help-haiti-recover-and-build-the-us-economy/
Feb 09
For over a year, the American Bar Association’s Commission on Immigration and the law firm of Arnold & Porter LLP engaged in a comprehensive review of the current removal process. The law firm poured over hundreds of articles, reports, legislative materials, and other documents, and interviewed scores of participants in the system, including lawyers, judges, …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/02/09/new-aba-study-documents-serious-system-wide-problems-in-the-removal-process/
Feb 08
Today, America’s Voice released a report, The Power of the Latino Vote in the 2010 Elections: They Tipped Elections in 2008; Where will they be in 2010? The report analyzes forty battleground “Races to Watch” where the Latino vote will be pivotal to both parties. The report notes that “as the Latino electorate grows in …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/02/08/the-2010-mid-term-elections-and-the-impatient-latino-vote/
Feb 05
The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) yesterday released a new study, Immigration and Wages, which confirms what many other economists have found: “that immigration has a small but positive impact on the wages of native-born workers overall.” The report, by economist Heidi Shierholz, finds that the “effect of immigration from 1994 to 2007 was to raise …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/02/05/new-study-confirms-positive-impact-of-immigration-on-wages-of-native-born-workers/
Feb 04
DC’s adorable panda Tai Shan returns to China today. Because of a current lack of native-born pandas, the U.S. turned to China for pandas to fill our zoos’ panda needs. Tai Shan’s parents, Mei Xiang and Tian Tian, have been in the U.S. on a cultural exchange of sorts, entertaining zoo patrons and attempting to …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/02/04/bye-bye-butterstick/
Feb 03
The New York Times reported yesterday on a lawsuit filed against federal contractor Signal Construction, which includes allegations that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) colluded with Signal to illegally deport workers as a scare tactic and for retaliation purposes against 500 Indian guest workers who are currently in a legal battle against Signal.
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/02/03/shining-a-light-on-ice-misconduct/
Feb 02
The Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 budget request for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano unveiled yesterday, exemplifies the enforcement mentality which pervades the federal government’s approach to immigration. The two immigration-enforcement components of DHS—Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)—consume 30% of the department’s total …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/02/02/napolitano-unveils-enforcement-heavy-immigration-budget-for-dhs/
Feb 01
Immigration and Latino advocates continue to take stock after last week’s State of the Union Address, which some interpreted as the final nail in immigration reform’s coffin for 2010. Predictably, Democratic leadership reasserted their ongoing commitment to immigration reform legislation the day after. Less predictably, however, Senator Schumer’s main Republican partner in the Senate, Lindsay …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/02/01/an-opening-for-republicans-on-immigration-reform/
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