Apr 29
President Obama has convened a number of meetings on the issue of immigration lately. However, the one that got the most attention took place this week and included a notable group of Latino actors, journalists and radio personalities for what Politico called “Obama’s Celebrity Roundtable.”
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/04/29/help-wanted-latino-leaders-and-presidential-leadership-needed-on-immigration-reform/
Apr 28
This week, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that it will remove all countries from the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS). Previously, nonimmigrant travelers from Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Egypt, Eritrea, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/04/28/dhs-removes-countries-from-special-registration-list-but-leaves-doors-open-for-future-placements/
Apr 27
Fans of Arizona’s SB 1070 and its many imitators fail to mention one critical feature of their beloved legislation: its economic destructiveness. A dramatic example of just how destructive an SB 1070 clone could be is detailed in a new report from the Center for American Progress (CAP) and the Immigration Policy Center (IPC). The …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/04/27/new-report-underscores-economic-folly-of-s-b-1070-type-laws-in-california/
Apr 26
BY TYLER MORAN, NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER The Social Security Administration (SSA) just announced it will resume its practice of notifying employers of discrepancies in employee paperwork through “no-match letters”—a mechanism which threatens countless American jobs. Despite the Administration’s clear assertion that the letter “makes no statement” about a worker’s immigration status, employer confusion over …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/04/26/are-ssa-no-match-letters-putting-american-jobs-at-risk/
Apr 25
Some would argue that ICE’s Secure Communities program has been fraught with problems ever since it launched in 2008—from concerns over the lack of federal oversight to questions regarding the criminality of immigrants targeted. But after months of back and forth over how and whether jurisdictions are able to opt-out of this immigration enforcement program …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/04/25/congresswoman-zoe-lofgren-demands-investigation-into-ice%e2%80%99s-secure-communities-program/
Apr 22
One year ago this month, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer put her star on the political map when she signed SB 1070, a controversial immigration law which required state and local law-enforcement officials to inquire about immigration status during any lawful stop, detention, or arrest. Some states learned from Arizona—the numerous protests, Supreme Court challenge, costly …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/04/22/one-year-after-sb1070-states-are-still-grappling-with-cost-of-immigration-measures-2/
Apr 21
After the threat of a government shutdown last week, Congress finally managed to approve a budget that will keep the government running through the 2011 fiscal year. Included in that budget, however, are a host of cuts that will impact immigrants and immigration programming in the fiscal year to come. As policy experts and economists …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/04/21/by-the-numbers-how-fy-2011-budget-impacts-immigration/
Apr 20
Yesterday, President Obama hosted a White House meeting with 70 national leaders—including Mayor Bloomberg, former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Al Sharpton, evangelical leader Leith Anderson and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, among others—to discuss the challenge of fixing our broken immigration system. While some advocates praised President Obama’s renewed commitment to immigration reform—and the fact that the …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/04/20/president-obama-leads-meeting-on-immigration-but-what-happens-next/
Apr 19
Sadly, myth and misinformation continue to be a major part of the immigration debate. One of the biggest myths perpetuated by restrictionist groups is that the roughly 12 million unauthorized immigrants currently living in the U.S. use a variety of public services yet paying nothing in taxes. Hard data recently released by the Institute for …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/04/19/filed-under-%e2%80%9cm%e2%80%9d-for-%e2%80%9cmyth-busted%e2%80%9d-unauthorized-immigrants-pay-taxes-too/
Apr 18
Yesterday’s New York Times featured an in-depth story about a little-known but powerful man: John Tanton—a Michigan ophthalmologist and architect of the modern anti-immigrant movement. The story, entitled “The Anti-Immigration Crusader,” describes how Tanton’s activist ideology evolved over time, from an environmentalist’s color-blind concern with “over-population,” to a white nationalist’s worry over the growing number …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/04/18/new-york-times-details-the-unsavory-roots-of-fair-cis-and-numbersusa/
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