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  • January 25, 2017
    Blog
    Trump Executive Order Reestablishes "Secure Communities"
    Trump Executive Order Reestablishes “Secure Communities”
    … virtually all counties in the United States. It worked by checking the fingerprints of local and state arrestees against federal immigration and criminal databases. If Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) suspected the arrestee of being an illegal immigrant they would …
    By Alex Nowrasteh
  • January 25, 2017
    Blog
    Nationwide E-Verify an Unwelcome Step Towards a National ID
    Nationwide E-Verify an Unwelcome Step Towards a National ID
    … the framework for a national ID system that would undoubtedly come to be used for more than the enforcement of immigration laws. E-Verify allows employers to check a new hire’s information against government databases to confirm legal status …
  • December 14, 2016
    Blog
    One Lesson for General John Kelly to Consider as Head of DHS
    … immigration: Liberalizing migration and working with the labor market, not against it, is essential to ending the flow of illegal immigration.   div[i] Kitty Calavita, Inside the State: The Bracero Program, Immigration, and the INS, Quid Pro Books, New Orleans …
    By Alex Nowrasteh
  • November 28, 2016
    Blog
    The Myth of Border Insecurity
    … following year (Figure 6). Figure 5 Returns & Removals and Apprehensions Media Name: mbs5.png   Sources: Yearbook of Immigration Statistics and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Figure 6 Ratio of Returns & Removals to Apprehensions Media Name: mbs6.png   Source: Yearbook of Immigration …
    By Alex Nowrasteh
  • September 12, 2016
    Blog
    Let’s Stop Discriminating Against Immigrants From Populous Nations
    … flow to the benefit of immigrants from countries with fewer people. This policy—a compromise that resolved a long-dead immigration dispute—is senseless and economically damaging. In the 1920s, Congress imposed the first-ever quota on immigration, but rather …
    By David J. Bier
  • July 21, 2016
    Blog
    Defending Green Cards
    … 2013 Media Name: oecd05.jpg   Source: OECD. Australia, New Zealand, Canada and most of the other countries with more open immigration policies emphasize skilled immigration. The current U.S. green card system also emphasizes skilled immigration among the workers it …
    By Alex Nowrasteh
  • July 20, 2016
    Blog
    Proposition 187 Turned California Blue
    The California Republican Party’s decision to represent the anti-immigration wing of the American electorate in the early 1990s destroyed that state’s GOP for at least a generation in exchange for winning one election in 1994 and a symbolic victory on Proposition 187 that didn’t actually change policy. 
    By Alex Nowrasteh
  • July 6, 2016
    Blog
    We Don’t Need More Border Patrol
    Problems with Border Patrol corruption and a low period in unlawful immigration are superb arguments against expanding and perhaps to even shrink the Border Patrol back to a reasonable size.
    By Alex Nowrasteh
  • July 3, 2016
    CapX
    The Fallout from Brexit
    Time will tell if the British will be able to combine membership in the single market with an immigration system that satisfies the minimum demands of the majority of the electorate, but a working compromise should be achievable.
    By Marian L. Tupy
  • April 21, 2016
    Blog
    Arizona’s SB1070 and Crime
    Arizona state representative Sonny Borrelli claimed that crime rates in his state dropped 78 percent since the passage of that state’s infamous immigration reform in 2010. His remark was thoroughly debunked. 
    By Alex Nowrasteh
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