Feb 04
Strengthening border security, including increasing the number of border patrol agents, continues to be a component of the latest immigration reform proposals, as they have in the past. What may be overlooked in these proposals is the administration’s call for enhanced training to protect civil rights. This is critical, given the results of a new …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2013/02/04/incentivizing-arrests-for-border-patrol-agents/
Jan 02
Some families facing long separations from their loved ones because of U.S. immigration laws will have an easier time of it in 2013. Thanks to a new regulation from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), immediate relatives of U.S. citizens will be able to complete part of the processing of their immigration cases without leaving …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2013/01/02/dhs-publishes-new-provisional-waiver-to-help-some-families-stay-together/
Dec 07
With the U.S. economy in the midst of a prolonged slump, it’s hard to believe that a labor shortage exists anywhere in the country. But that is precisely the case when it comes to the high-tech industries which depend upon highly skilled scientists and engineers. The United States has long faced a dilemma in this …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/12/07/the-u-s-economy-still-needs-high-skilled-immigrant-workers/
Nov 28
If you follow immigration, but are returning from a month-long, news-free vacation, there’s only one conclusion you would draw from the legislation Republicans offered up this week in Congress: Mitt Romney must have won the presidential election. After all, the ACHIEVE Act, introduced yesterday by retiring Senators Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX), …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/11/28/this-weeks-immigration-proposals-old-news-old-ideas/
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/
Nov 20
Most people don’t think of foreign students as an economic resource, yet that is precisely what they are. Each year, students from other countries spend billions of dollars in the U.S. economy, pumping money not only into the colleges and universities they attend, but the surrounding businesses as well. In addition, many foreign students go …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/11/20/foreign-students-add-billions-of-dollars-to-the-u-s-economy-each-year-and-thats-just-the-beginning/
Nov 16
Earlier this afternoon, the Obama administration released updated statistics indicating that 53,273 undocumented youths have been granted relief under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. As of November 15, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) had received more than 300,000 requests for deferred action, with most applicants still awaiting the completion of background …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/11/16/breaking-daca-approvals-surpass-50000/
Nov 16
By Jenny Rejeske, Health Policy Analyst National Immigration Law Center The Obama administration’s decision to cut access to affordable health care for young people granted relief from deportation hurts everyone. This decision came weeks after the administration initiated the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy, which lifts the cloud of deportation for immigrant youth …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/11/16/including-daca-recipients-in-health-care-reform/
Nov 14
With more than 325,000 cases pending at the start of October, our nation’s immigration courts are indisputably operating under a crushing backlog. The only question is whether and how it can be resolved. In a little-noticed report issued in early November, the Inspector General of the Justice Department levied a number of criticisms regarding the …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/11/14/watchdog-report-offers-misdiagnosis-of-immigration-court-backlog/
Nov 12
By Brett Hunt, Iraq War Veteran and former Captain in the U.S. Army. “I’m a Cuban refugee who came to this country when I was 10-years-old and flunked the sixth grade because I couldn’t speak English.” That’s a quote that won’t surprise many Americans on both sides of the immigration debate.
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/11/12/recognizing-the-contribution-of-immigrants-to-the-armed-forces/
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