Immigration, immigration, immigration…you’d think the human species, with over 7 billion souls, would be accustomed to folks moving around! It’s only been happening for hundreds of generations and helped shape our global society! Yet here we are and immigration is…
Commonly Asked Questions and Answers
The H-2B visa is used by U.S. companies to temporarily employ skilled or unskilled foreign nationals in nonagricultural positions.
The U.S. Senate’s Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act (S. 744) is finding support from President Barack Obama as he urges the U.S. House of Representatives to pass the bill or craft similar legislation.
The combination of economic stagnation and declining population growth has led many cities to rethink how to rejuvenate their communities. Many cities in the Midwest are entertaining the idea of immigration reform as a way to boost their economic growth.
Most people do not know how “prosecutorial discretion” got its start or the role it plays in immigration cases today. “Prosecutorial discretion” is the authority of an agency or officer to decide what charges to bring and how to pursue each case.
A study conducted by the Immigration Policy Center over the course of 10 years reveals that U.S. immigration laws and policies create more barriers toward the legalization process for women than men.
Immigrants to the U.S. could outnumber the amount of people born in the U.S. by 2027. That’s one finding the U.S. Census Bureau published last week in its attempt to help policy makers better understand America’s immigration future.
According to a 2011 U.S. Department of Homeland Security estimate, 6.8 million of the 11.5 million undocumented immigrants were from Mexico. In addition, the Pew Hispanic Center has reported the number has dropped by near 1 million from five years…
The Immigration Policy Center has released a report on the impact of legal representation on immigrants. It points out that nearly half of all undocumented immigrants manage their removal proceeding without the benefit of a lawyer. Further, undocumented immigrants may…
Two studies in two different states have analyzed whether immigrants (both documented and undocumented) have a positive or negative impact on the economy. Among other results from the Kansas- and Missouri-based studies, researchers found the following: Some industries would have…