Nov 26
Despite a general consensus that adopting “self-deportation” as immigration policy helped sink Mitt Romney’s White House aspirations, the architect of this philosophy, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, isn’t ready to give in. Kobach doesn’t seem to care that most in his party have awakened to the fact that they are in a “death spiral” …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/11/26/kris-kobach-continues-digging-immigration-hole/
May 23
In a case of very creative accounting, the nativist Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) is blaming students for Maryland’s fiscal woes. In a new report, FAIR lumps together students who are unauthorized immigrants with U.S.-born students who have unauthorized parents and claims that they are all costing Maryland taxpayers astronomical sums in educational expenditures. …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/05/23/antiimmigration-group-blames-students-for-marylands-budget-gap/
Apr 30
Proponents of “attrition through enforcement” would have you believe that, given the right conditions, unauthorized immigrants will choose to leave the U.S. and return to their home countries. The Myth of Self Deportation, by Alexandra Filindra, questions the assumptions behind the attrition strategy and concludes that self-deportation is not rational because unauthorized immigrants have invested …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/04/30/study-shows-self-deportation-is-irrational-behavior-and-a-false-premise/
Mar 16
Either Mississippi lawmakers aren’t aware of the hefty fiscal and legal burdens brought on by harsh immigration legislation in other states, or they just don’t care. This week, the Mississippi House passed HB 488, an immigration enforcement bill that allows local law enforcement to determine the immigration status of individuals during an arrest whom they …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/03/16/is-mississippi-about-to-make-a-costly-mistake-on-immigration/
Mar 07
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 …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/03/07/mother-jones-exposes-inner-workings-of-the-self-deportation-movement/
Feb 06
Federal immigration enforcement resources have increased significantly in recent years, as have the number of deportations. Meanwhile, states have passed harsh immigration laws intended to crack down on unauthorized immigrants. Presidential candidate Mitt Romney has announced that he supports a policy of “self-deportation.” What do these things have in common? The belief that making daily …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/02/06/new-report-examines-dire-consequences-of-attrition-through-enforcement-immigration-strategy/
Jan 26
GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney stole a page from the restrictionists’ playbook this week when he promoted the idea of “self-deportation” during a presidential debate. “If people don’t get work here,” Romney stated, “they’re going to self-deport to a place where they can get work.” Rather than initiate a constructive solution to our nation’s immigration …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/01/26/romney-uses-restrictionist-code-words-to-describe-his-immigration-policies/
Dec 07
Last week, a new report released by the Pew Hispanic Center found that nearly two-thirds of all unauthorized adult immigrants currently living in the U.S. (10.2 million) have been here for at least 10 years and nearly half of them (4.7 million) are parents of minor children. The longevity of their U.S. residency and pattern …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/12/07/new-report-challenges-notion-that-harsh-enforcement-measures-drive-unauthorized-immigrants-out/
Nov 15
Alabama lawmakers want undocumented immigrants to be so afraid of the consequences of the state’s new anti-immigrant law (HB 56) that they leave the state. However, that’s not the only fear factor built into the law. Under section 6(f), state and local government employees must report violations of HB 56—which includes unlawfully present immigrants even …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/11/15/policing-the-enforcers-criminalizing-alabama-employees-encourages-discrimination/
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