Apr 25
On the road to reform, the Senate’s Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act contains several changes and new provisions for skilled immigration and entrepreneurship. Specifically, the bill provides balanced reforms to the H-1B nonimmigrant visa for high-skilled individuals, various provisions for highly skilled individuals through permanent employment-based immigration, and a new INVEST visa …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2013/04/25/high-skilled-immigration-and-entrepreneurship-in-the-senates-immigration-bill/
Apr 19
Following the introduction of the Senate immigration reform bill earlier this week, the Senate Judiciary Committee held its first hearing about the measure today. It gave the senators a chance to air their various complaints about the bill – that it does not protect LGBT couples or that the bill micro-manages the hiring process for …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2013/04/19/former-bush-administration-official-explains-why-immigration-bill-is-good-for-the-economy/
Apr 10
In the current public debate regarding comprehensive immigration reform, the focus on immigrant access to health benefits has been almost exclusively limited to cost (which is undeniably an important aspect) and has rarely addressed the social gains that result from investing in a healthy population. For the most part, the health of immigrant women has …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2013/04/10/guaranteeing-access-to-health-care-to-immigrant-women-a-necessary-and-wise-investment/
Apr 05
The work of the nativist Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) is focused on grinding an anti-immigrant ideological axe, not on gathering evidence and employing rigorous analysis. A case in point is CIS’s recent report on the hypothetical cost of processing an “amnesty application.” It is difficult to discern what the point of the report actually …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2013/04/05/nativist-group-releases-confusing-report-on-legalization/
Mar 27
While immigration reform has long been important to Silicon Valley, for the most part the advocacy has focused on high tech issues such as expanded immigration for workers in science and technology fields and increased access to H-1B temporary visas. The breadth of support for more comprehensive reform, however, has been growing, as it becomes …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2013/03/27/facebook-founder-likes-comprehensive-immigration-reform/
Mar 21
Geography is a topic often lost in national-level immigration policy and the ensuing conversations around comprehensive reform. We frequently hear statistics cited at the national level. However, all too often, data at the metropolitan and local level – where the challenges and opportunities of immigration policy play out – are overlooked in policy debates.
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2013/03/21/supporting-stem-education-where-its-most-needed/
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 19
Comprehensive immigration reform and its array of issues is a hot topic of discussion these days at the national level. Yet while those in Washington continue crafting proposals, states are most impacted by the country’s current outdated immigration system and are making the economic and moral case for reform, as a recent Chicago Council on …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2013/03/19/why-regional-economies-needs-immigration-reform/
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/
Mar 07
We often take for granted the important role “behind the scenes” workers – farm labor, restaurant work, and home health care – play in driving our economy. That’s one of the many conclusions of a new report from the Essential Economy Council, which studied the economic and social value of industries that make up what …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2013/03/07/state-level-immigration-legislation-and-the-essential-economy/
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