Walter Ewing
Author's details
Name: Walter Ewing
Date registered: July 23, 2008
URL: http://www.immigrationimpact.com
Biography
Walter Ewing, Ph.D., is the Senior Researcher at the Immigration Policy Center. He has authored or co-authored 20 reports and opinion pieces for the IPC and has published articles in the Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy, Stanford Law and Policy Review, and Immigration Law Today. Before joining the IPC, he was an Immigration Policy Analyst at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and Program Director of the National Citizenship Network at Immigration and Refugee Services of America. Mr. Ewing received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate School in 1997 and his B.A. in Sociology and Anthropology from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1987.
Latest posts
- New Border Patrol Strategy Changes Rhetoric More than Substance — May 15, 2012
- DHS’s Current Southern Border Enforcement Strategy a Bust, Group Says — April 26, 2012
- Several Factors Cited for Drop in Net Migration from Mexico — April 24, 2012
- Report Brings Border Patrol Abuses to Light in Washington State — April 20, 2012
- Immigrant Tax Contributions and the Future of the U.S. Economy — April 17, 2012
Most commented posts
- Restrictionist CIS Twists Facts on “Marriage Fraud” — 12 comments
- Obama to Make Good on Promise of Immigration Reform This Year — 11 comments
- Sheriff Joe Arpaio Stages Immigrant-Degradation March for the Cameras — 8 comments
- FAIR Promotes “Green Xenophobia” — 6 comments
- Anti-Immigrant Activists Hysterical Over Recent DHS Guidelines — 6 comments
Author's posts listings
The U.S. Border Patrol’s newly released strategic plan is a decidedly mixed bag when it comes to border security—just like the Border Patrol’s last strategic plan, released in 2004. On the plus side, both documents advocate an intelligence-driven, risk-based approach to border security which focuses on the greatest security threats. Both plans also call for …
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Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/05/15/new-border-patrol-strategy-changes-rhetoric-more-than-substance/
A comprehensive new report finds that the fortification of the U.S.-Mexico border which began two decades ago has reached the limits of its effectiveness, has produced severe negative side effects, and should be systematically re-evaluated. In Beyond the Border Buildup: Security and Migrants Along the U.S.-Mexico Border, the Washington Office on Latin America and the …
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Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/04/26/dhss-current-southern-border-enforcement-strategy-a-bust-group-says/
Net migration from Mexico to the United States, both legal and illegal, now stands at zero—or less. In other words, the number of migrants coming here from Mexico is equal to, or less than, the number of migrants leaving or being deported from the United States and returning to Mexico. That is the main conclusion …
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Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/04/24/several-factors-cited-for-drop-in-net-migration-from-mexico/
The borderlands of the southwestern United States are not the only place where immigration enforcement tramples upon the most basic of civil and human rights. Many communities along the northern border are also subject to such abuses, as detailed in a recent report from OneAmerica and the University of Washington Center for Human Rights. The …
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Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/04/20/report-brings-border-patrol-abuses-to-light-in-washington-state/
When it comes to the topic of immigration, Tax Day is a reminder of two important and often-overlooked points. First, immigrants pay billions in taxes every year. This is true even of unauthorized immigrants. Second, the federal government spends billions of taxpayer dollars each year on immigration-enforcement measures that wouldn’t be necessary if not for …
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Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/04/17/immigrant-tax-contributions-and-the-future-of-the-u-s-economy/
U.S. immigration and border-enforcement policies have precipitated a litany of human-rights abuses along the U.S.-Mexico border, from the needless deaths of border-crossers to inhumane conditions in immigration detention to the racial profiling of entire Latino and indigenous communities. That was the principal finding of the human rights groups which presented testimony at a recent hearing …
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Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/04/05/human-rights-abuses-along-u-s-mexico-border-underscore-need-for-reform/
The “nativist extremist” movement in the United States is in the midst of a fundamental transformation. On the one hand, the number of these virulently anti-immigrant groups plummeted between 2010 and 2011. On the other hand, many of the people and ideas from these groups have found new homes in the conspiracy-obsessed “Patriot” movement, the …
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Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/03/22/anti-immigrant-agenda-goes-mainstream-as-nativist-extremist-movement-declines-report-finds/
Nine years after its creation, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is still hampered by mission overlap and inadequate information sharing among the various agencies within the department. So concludes a recent report by the DHS Office of Inspector General, entitled Information Sharing on Foreign Nationals: Border Security. Highlights from the report include a recommendation …
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Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/03/21/dhs-report-finds-inadequate-information-sharing-mission-overlap-among-immigration-agencies/
In its March/April issue, Mother Jones Magazine goes “inside the self-deportation movement,” exploring “164 state anti-immigration bills and the forces behind them.” The concept of “self deportation,” popularized by GOP presidential contender Mitt Romney, is central to the philosophy of “attrition through enforcement.” The basic idea is that, if you make life hard enough for …
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Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/03/07/mother-jones-exposes-inner-workings-of-the-self-deportation-movement/
Faced with harsh anti-immigrant laws passed by state or local governments, most unauthorized immigrants do not return to their home countries. That is the inescapable conclusion of a new report from the Center for American Progress (CAP), entitled Staying Put but Still in the Shadows, by Leah Muse-Orlinoff. The report finds that unauthorized immigrants react …
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Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/02/29/new-report-debunks-restrictionist-myth-of-self-deportation/
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