May 30
Immigrants’ access to affordable health care is one of the most contested issues in the current immigration reform debate. Most advocates of comprehensive immigration reform point to the need to ensure that aspiring citizens have opportunities to access appropriate health care since such access will impact their ability to learn, to work, and to contribute …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2013/05/30/medicares-health-and-well-being-depends-on-immigrants/
Apr 03
Small business owners throughout the United States have a pulse on the goings on within their local communities. They recognize that immigrant workers and their families are also consumers, which helps to create additional jobs and bolster local economies. Within that context, two new polls highlight small business owners’ perspectives of immigration and its positive …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2013/04/03/small-business-owners-support-comprehensive-immigration-reform/
Mar 20
As lawmakers negotiate the contours of an immigration reform bill, they should keep in mind that the granting of legal status to undocumented immigrants would be a boon for the U.S. economy—and allowing undocumented immigrants to eventually become U.S. citizens would be an even bigger boon. Such is the finding of a report from the …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2013/03/20/the-sooner-immigrants-become-citizens-the-better-it-is-for-the-economy/
Mar 11
Among the most contentious debates surrounding national immigration reform concerns immigrant use of welfare programs. Opponents of immigration routinely assert low-skilled immigrants consume more public resources than natives, thereby imposing an unfair fiscal burden on U.S. taxpayers.
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2013/03/11/cato-report-finds-poor-immigrants-use-fewer-public-benefits-than-natives/
Feb 08
In the current debate, immigration is often depicted as a Latino issue. This is partially because just over half of America’s foreign-born population is from Latin America and the Caribbean, and the current political climate around immigration is largely seen as being driven by Latino turnout for Democrats in the 2012 election. But this depiction …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2013/02/08/survey-asian-americans-concerned-with-legalization-family-backlogs/
Feb 07
This week, the New York Times gave voice to the nativist argument that legalizing unauthorized immigrants would drain the federal budget because newly legalized immigrants will start using public benefits. However, this flawed fiscal accounting overlooks the myriad ways in which immigrants, just like the native-born, contribute to the U.S. economy over the course of …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2013/02/07/nativists-fail-to-grasp-economics-of-immigration-reform/
Feb 05
Nativists are rarely encumbered by facts. By its very nature, nativist rhetoric is based on stereotype and mythology, not empirical evidence. Regrettably, some of our elected leaders in the House of Representatives and the Senate have embraced the mirage of nativism as they embark on a crusade to derail any meaningful reform of the U.S. …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2013/02/05/nativist-politicians-invent-doomsday-predictions-about-immigration-reform/
Jan 31
As the immigration debate heats up in Congress, the central question for much of the American public will be whether or not to create a pathway to legal status for the 11 million unauthorized immigrants now living in the United States. In formulating an answer to that question, however, it is necessary to ask two …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2013/01/31/why-should-we-support-a-legalization-program-for-unauthorized-immigrants/
Jan 15
A perennial question in the immigration debate is whether or not immigrants contribute more to the economy than they cost. That is, do they add more economically as workers, taxpayers, consumers, and entrepreneurs than they “consume” in public education, public healthcare, and public benefits? In some ways, this question is misleading. Education and healthcare are …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2013/01/15/immigrants-add-billions-to-the-arkansas-economy/
Jan 04
There is considerable debate at the moment over the prospects for immigration reform this year. On the one hand, an electorally chastened Republican Party seems to be reevaluating its long-standing support for deportation-only immigration policies. On the other hand, it looks as though the White House and Congress are embarking upon lengthy debates over gun …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2013/01/04/reasons-for-cautious-optimism-on-immigration-reform/
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