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Beyond the High-Tech Bubble: The Changing Demand for H-1B Professionals |
Contrary to popular myth, H-1B professionals represent only a tiny fraction of the total U.S. labor force and do not crowd out native-born workers in industries that are losing jobs. Rather, H-1B workers fill growing labor needs in a variety of fields that continue to add jobs, such as education and healthcare. (April 2004)
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Labor Market Numerology: Arbitrary Congressional Limits on Temporary Worker Visas |
The current numerical limits on visas for both high-skilled and seasonal workers prevent U.S. businesses from hiring the workers they need, while doing nothing to protect the jobs or wages of native workers. Labor rights are most effectively guaranteed by enforcing labor protections, not by imposing arbitrary numerical caps. (April 2004)
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Missing the Forest for the Trees: The Environmental Arguments of Immigration Restrictionists |
In the latest battle for control of the Sierra Club, immigration restrictionists are again using an “over-population” argument that is based on flawed environmental assumptions and offers no useful guide for fixing the broken U.S. immigration system. (March 2004)
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An Unlikely Fit: Will the Undocumented Apply for a Temporary Status? |
A guest worker program that lacks a clearly defined path to a permanent status is an unlikely fit for many of the 9.3 million undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States, most of whom have deep roots in U.S. families, communities and businesses. (February 2004)
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Health Worker Shortages & the Potential of Immigration Policy |
Foreign-born and foreign-trained professionals play an important role in the delivery of health care in the United States. This report examines the important role of immigrant doctors and nurses – many of whom have received their training abroad – in the U.S. health industry, using new Census Bureau data as well as information from numerous interviews with health industry experts. February, 2004 (Volume 3, Issue 1)
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Crossing Borders Alone: The Treatment of Unaccompanied Children in the United States |
Children who travel unaccompanied to the United States experience not only the trauma of family separation and the frequently predatory behavior of the traffickers who bring them, but also harsh treatment by an immigration bureaucracy that often incarcerates them with little access to legal counsel or professional support. (January 2004)
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The Cost of Doing Nothing: The Need for Comprehensive Immigration Reform |
President Bush’s proposal to address the problem of undocumented immigration by creating more opportunities for legal immigration and providing a legal status to those already here is a useful starting point in reforming a broken immigration system that costs hundreds of lives and billions of dollars every year. (January 2004)
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