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Immigration Fact Checks provide up-to-date information on the most current issues involving immigration today.

Focusing on the Solutions: Key Principles of Comprehensive Immigration Reform

In Breaking Down the Problems, What’s Wrong with Our Immigration System?, the Immigration Policy Center (IPC) laid out key structural problems within immigration law, as well as the inadequate, enforcement-only responses that have given rise to our current immigration crisis.  Genuine immigration reform requires a thoughtful, coordinated approach that restores balance to the process, giving America the tools it needs to remain a leader in a rapidly changing world.

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Published On: Thu, Nov 05, 2009 | Download File

New Americans in the Pelican State

The Political and Economic Power of Immigrants, Latinos, and Asians in Louisiana.

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Published On: Mon, Oct 26, 2009 | Download File

American Roots in the Immigrant Experience

The U.S. Census Bureau recently released data on the Latino population of the United States that underscores the extent to which the immigrant experience is embedded in the social (and political) fabric of the United States. The political significance of these statistics is apparent in the most recent IPC Fact Check. Latinos comprise the fastest-growing group of voters in the United States. The number of naturalized U.S. citizens is increasing rapidly and the electoral clout of New American voters who share a direct, personal connection to the immigrant experience—that is, naturalized citizens and the U.S.-born children of immigrants—is on the rise.

Published On: Mon, Oct 19, 2009 | Download File

New Americans in the North Star State

The Political and Economic Power of Immigrants, Latinos, and Asians in Minnesota.

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Published On: Thu, Oct 15, 2009 | Download File

New Americans in the Garden State

The Political and Economic Power of Immigrants, Latinos, and Asians in New Jersey.

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Published On: Tue, Oct 06, 2009 | Download File

New Americans in the Pine Tree State

The Political and Economic Power of Immigrants, Latinos, and Asians in Maine.

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Published On: Thu, Oct 01, 2009 | Download File

The Truth about Costly Verification Systems, Unauthorized Immigrants and Health Care

As health care bills make their way through Congress, lawmakers are debating whether or not to include overly burdensome citizenship verification requirements to ensure that unauthorized immigrants do not have access to health insurance.  However, past attempts to implement these kinds of additional measures have prevented U.S. citizens and legal immigrants from receiving health care, while uncovering very few instances of unauthorized immigrants trying to abuse the system. In fact, research shows that unauthorized immigrants do not come to the United States for health care benefits or any other public services for which they are not eligible. These additional measures threaten to ensnare far more citizens than unauthorized immigrants and add unnecessary costs to health care reform.

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Published On: Wed, Sep 30, 2009 | Download File

New Americans in the Natural State

The Political and Economic Power of Immigrants, Latinos, and Asians in Arkansas.

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Published On: Tue, Sep 22, 2009 | Download File

New Americans in the Grand Canyon State

The Political and Economic Power of Immigrants, Latinos, and Asians in Arizona.

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Published On: Sat, Sep 19, 2009 | Download File

Citizenship by the Numbers

Citizenship Day (September 17) is an appropriate time to take stock of the growing number of U.S. citizens who are immigrants to this country—or who are the children of immigrants.  Roughly one-in-seventeen U.S. citizens are foreign-born, and tens of millions of native-born U.S. citizens have immigrant parents.  This demographic reality has important political ramifications.  A rising share of the U.S. electorate has a direct personal connection to the immigrant experience, and is unlikely to be favorably swayed by politicians who employ anti-immigrant rhetoric to mobilize supporters.  This is particularly true among the two fastest-growing groups of voters in the nation: Latinos and Asians.  The majority of Latinos and Asians are either immigrants or the children of immigrants, and they comprised one out of every ten voters in the 2008 election.

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Published On: Wed, Sep 16, 2009 | Download File