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Ties that Bind: Immigration Reform Should be Tailored to Families, Not Just Individuals |
Given the extent to which undocumented immigrants already living in the United States are part of U.S.-based families, comprehensive immigration reform must include more than just a new temporary worker program. May 2005 (Volume 4, Issue 4)
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The Economics of Necessity: Economic Report of the President Underscores Importance of Immigration |
Although immigration is crucial to the growth of the U.S. labor force and yields a net fiscal benefit to the U.S. economy, current immigration policies fail to respond to actual labor demand. May 2005 (Volume 4, Issue 3)
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Fencing in Failure: Effective Border Control is Not Achieved by Building More Fences |
New proposals for more fencing and Border Patrol agents along the U.S.-Mexico border may only perpetuate an unsuccessful and counterproductive policy that does not effectively enhance national security or control undocumented immigration. April 2005 (Volume 4, Issue 2)
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Essential Workers: Immigrants are a Needed Supplement to the Native-Born Labor Force |
An analysis of data from the 2000 census reveals that employment in about one-third of all U.S. job categories would have contracted during the 1990s in the absence of recently arrived, noncitizen immigrant workers. (March 2005)
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Diversity and Transformation: African Americans and African Immigration to the United States |
Successive generations of African immigration have continuously transformed the African American community and the sociopolitical climate of the United States. (March 2005)
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Asylum Essentials:The U.S. Asylum Program Needs More Resources, Not Restrictions |
The efficiency of the asylum program depends in large part on a fully staffed and adequately funded Asylum Corps that evaluates asylum claims thoroughly and expeditiously. (February 2005)
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Closed Borders and Mass Deportations: The Lessons of the Barred Zone Act |
In 2005 Congress is expected to reexamine the U.S. immigration system in light of the roughly 10 million undocumented immigrants currently living in the country. Some advocates of restrictionist immigration policies offer mass deportations or a “moratorium” on immigration as solutions to the obviously dysfunctional system under which undocumented migration of this scale is taking place. Yet U.S. immigration history offers examples of similarly ill-conceived proposals. As policymakers and the public debate the nature and extent of immigration reform, they would do well to reflect upon the cautionary lessons of the Barred Zone Act of February 4, 1917. (January 2005)
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