Jun 17
At a hearing held jointly today by two subcommittees of the House Homeland Security Committee, lawmakers and witnesses took turns dissecting the many faults and failures of the Department of Homeland Security’s ill-fated Secure Border Initiative Network, or SBInet—the $1.1 billion effort led by the Boeing Corporation to create a “virtual fence” along the U.S.-Mexico …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/06/17/congressional-hearing-dissects-the-many-failures-of-sbinet/
Jun 16
Earlier this week, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) wrote a misguided letter to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Assistant Secretary John Morton. The Senator complained to Secretary Morton about the possibility of ICE allowing low-risk detainees to wear recreational clothing, use the phone, and send emails. Grassley likened these to hotel amenities, complaining that they might …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/06/16/you%e2%80%99re-a-mean-one-mr-grassley/
Jun 16
Harvard sophomore, Eric Balderas, knows why the DREAM Act is important to so many. Earlier this month, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) picked up Balderas in Boston on his way to visit his mother in San Antonio, Texas. Balderas now faces the possibility of deportation at a hearing next month. The 19 year old biology …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/06/16/deporting-america%e2%80%99s-future-harvard-student-pushes-for-dream-act/
Jun 15
The people who brought you SB1070 in Arizona are now preparing to challenge one of the fundamental principles of the U.S. Constitution—birthright citizenship. Birthright citizenship, or the principle of jus soli, means that any person born within the territory of the U.S is a citizen, regardless of the citizenship of one’s parents. This principle was …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/06/15/ending-birthright-citizenship-won%e2%80%99t-solve-our-immigration-problems/
Jun 14
With only six weeks until Arizona’s immigration enforcement law goes into effect, area housing analysts are already expecting the worst. According to the Arizona Republic, housing experts anticipate that SB 1070 will not only drive illegal immigrants out of the state, but legal residents and potential new homebuyers with them—“departures from a state where growth …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/06/14/sb-1070-%e2%80%9cgets-tough%e2%80%9d-on-arizona%e2%80%99s-housing-market/
Jun 11
The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) yesterday released a report claiming that, due to immigration, “by 2008 California had the least-educated labor force in the nation in terms of the share [of] its workers without a high school education.” The report, entitled A State Transformed: Immigration and the New California, grossly mischaracterizes the educational profile …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/06/11/cis-claims-california-is-%e2%80%98least-educated-state%e2%80%99-because-of-immigratio/
Jun 10
Word has started to trickle down that the only immigration reform taking place this year will be of a piecemeal variety. According to The Hill, Senate Democrats are looking to focus on energy legislation over the next two months, leaving no room for comprehensive immigration reform (CIR). However, advocates are not giving up hope, stating …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/06/10/dreaming-of-immigration-reform/
Jun 09
Almost from the beginning of his tenure as Director of USCIS back in 2009, Alejandro Mayorkas has been warning that a fee increase was imminent. Today, the other shoe finally dropped, as USCIS announced a weighted fee increase of approximately ten percent on applications and petitions submitted to the agency. The fee for naturalization applications, …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/06/09/uscis-announces-fee-increases/
Jun 08
A report released yesterday by the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), entitled The Impact of Immigrants in Recession and Economic Expansion, argues persuasively that immigration is a valuable economic resource. The report, by economist Giovanni Peri of the University of California, Davis, finds that “immigration unambiguously improves employment, productivity, and income,” increasing the earnings of native-born …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/06/08/new-report-sheds-light-on-economic-value-of-immigration/
Jun 07
During a debate of the defense authorization bill this week, Republican members of Congress are expected to push for the deployment of even more troops to the border. This is in addition to the 1,200 National Guard troops President Obama already requested to address border violence and the flow of drugs and guns across the …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/06/07/a-lopsided-approach-to-border-violence-doesn%e2%80%99t-solve-anything/
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