Dec 21
In the beginning of 2012, the landscape of the immigration world looked much different. Pro-immigrant groups were coming off of a rough few years that saw the failure of the DREAM Act, a spike in deportations under President Obama, and the passage of several state-level restrictionist bills like Arizona’s infamous SB 1070 and Alabama’s HB …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/12/21/countdown-of-the-top-five-immigration-stories-of-2012/
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/
Oct 25
Contrary to the expectations of anti-immigrant activists, unauthorized immigrants are not leaving the United States and returning home en masse in response to the onslaught of federal, state, and local immigration-enforcement initiatives in recent years. In fact, preliminary evidence indicates that unauthorized immigration to the United States from Mexico may be inching its way upward …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/10/25/new-research-casts-doubt-upon-attrition-through-enforcement/
Aug 27
In the early 2000s, one of the ways states attempted to control unauthorized immigration was by limiting immigrant eligibility for driver’s licenses and state-issued identification documents. The arguments for and against extending eligibility for driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants takes a new twist with the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Because those who …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/08/27/why-states-should-grant-daca-beneficiaries-drivers-licenses/
Aug 24
Kris Kobach’s official job title is Kansas Secretary of State. But he is better known for drafting—and being hired to defend in court—state and local immigration laws designed to make undocumented residents “self-deport.” His two most notorious undertakings are Arizona SB 1070 and Alabama HB 56, which have largely been eviscerated by federal courts. Yesterday, …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/08/24/why-kobachs-lawsuit-against-deferred-action-is-unlikely-to-stand-up-in-court/
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/
Apr 18
While the original sponsors of Alabama’s extreme anti-immigrant bill HB56 have acknowledged that the law is deeply flawed, as evidenced by a new bill to modify some of the harsher provisions, the restrictionist stalwarts at the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) want Alabamians to remember what it has supposedly done for the state. In …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/04/18/fairs-economic-analysis-of-hb56-ignores-reality-in-alabama/
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/
Mar 06
BY DARCY TROMANHAUSER, PROGRAM DIRECTOR AT NEBRASKA APPLESEED A federal court’s recent decision to strike down the core of Fremont’s immigration enforcement ordinance (Ordinance No. 5165)—which requires businesses to verify employees’ immigration status and renters to apply for an occupancy license—is no surprise. Across the country, every immigration ordinance with a rental component has been …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/03/06/court-strikes-down-provision-of-fremonts-immigration-ordinance-impact-on-community-continues/
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